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Bitchin’ in the kitchen in the time of Covid-19
Special Publications, Published on 17/04/2020
» The announcement in late March that all restaurants and bars were required by government order to close their doors to dine-in patrons, with the only option of takeaway and delivery, was poisonous icing on the cake for those food and beverage vendors who had already long-suffered the rapid decline of customers in Thailand for most of 2019.
Primo pizzas etc. for mall mavens
Special Publications, Published on 25/02/2019
» Whether it's the heat, the smog, or the retro culture, fact is malls are still magnets for end-consumers and those who pander to the fads they follow in Thailand. They may be emptying elsewhere but not here. No way.
Orange is the new red
Special Publications, Published on 10/06/2016
» Outside the sommelier-stocked walk-in cellar, the word Savelberg, the name of the restaurant and its progenitor, screams from a glossy cook book propped on a long row of uniformly red-bound volumes simply labelled “Michelin”.
Thailand’s Human Resource Situation: the challenge of an ageing population
Special Publications, Published on 06/06/2016
» In the not-so-distant past, Thailand was known as a young people’s country. In the 1970’s, life expectancy for males was under 60 years, and an extra five years for females, with under 10 per cent of total population aged 60 years or over. At that time, fertility rates approached five live births per adult female. There were plenty of young people to supply Thailand’s growing labour intensive industries, especially textiles and garments, with adequate workforce left in the fields for basic agricultural production.