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Waiting times halved at busiest Bangkok traffic lights
News, Post Reporters, Published on 05/02/2026
» A new adaptive control traffic signal system to ease congestion at two of the city’s busiest intersections — Phra Khanong and Sukhumvit 71 (Pridi Banomyong) — has already halved average waiting times to six minutes, according to the Bangkok Metropolitan Administration (BMA).
Call for digital rejig to unlock full benefits of AI
Business, Suchit Leesa-nguansuk, Published on 30/12/2025
» Thailand needs to address structural bottlenecks to improve its digital competitiveness, create innovation and fully leverage the benefits of artificial intelligence (AI).
Peace on Earth? Democracy everywhere?
News, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 29/12/2025
» Democracy is in retreat or at least on the defensive almost everywhere, while wars are getting bigger and more frequent. The trend lines are frighteningly bad.
Thailand's key tech, car parts hub 'paralysed' by record floods
Reuters, Published on 02/12/2025
» The floods that have devastated much of Thailand's South, claiming at least 181 lives, have “paralysed” the flow of high-tech components and car parts from Hat Yai district, potentially benefiting rival exporters in Indonesia and Vietnam, the Ministry of Commerce reported on Tuesday.
AI boom is turning Malaysia’s palm oil estates into data centres
Bloomberg News, Published on 19/11/2025
» KUALA LUMPUR — Malaysia’s palm oil giants, long-blamed for razing rainforests, fuelling toxic haze and driving orangutans to the brink of extinction, are recasting themselves as unlikely champions in a different, potentially greener race: the quest to lure the world’s artificial intelligence (AI) data centres to the Southeast Asian country.
The effects of unfinished momentum
News, Peerasit Kamnuansilpa, Published on 08/11/2025
» Why do some nations surge confidently into the future while others advance only in half-steps, not declining but not accelerating either? In their influential book Why Nations Fail (first published in 2012), Daron Acemoglu -- now a Nobel Prize economist -- and James Robinson, both economists and political scientists at the University of Chicago, offer a helpful lens for understanding Thailand's development path without casting blame or provoking division.
Flooding hits Central Plain, inundating Ayutthaya
Online Reporters, Published on 05/10/2025
» Flooding struck 16 provinces on Sunday, mostly in the Central Plain hit by deluges of water from the Chao Phraya River, and the highest number of affected households was in Ayutthaya province.
PM vows to fast-track B100-billion flood drainage project
Online Reporters, Published on 27/09/2025
» Prime Minister Anutin Charnvirakul has ordered the immediate disbursement of flood relief funds next week and pledged to fast-track a long-term drainage project worth 100 billion baht to tackle recurring flood crises.
Climate startup acquires funding for innovation
Business, Suchit Leesa-nguansuk, Published on 24/09/2025
» SeaX Ventures, a joint Thai-US venture capital firm, and other investors are funding a €6.8-million Amsterdam-based climate tech startup called Brineworks to scale its low-cost direct air capture (DAC) technology for e-fuels.
From FDI to homegrown growth
Oped, Peerasit Kamnuansilpa, Published on 11/09/2025
» For decades, Thailand has leaned heavily on foreign direct investment (FDI) as the engine of growth. That strategy once delivered jobs and exports, but today it yields diminishing returns. Inflows are volatile, competitiveness is slipping, and dependence on external capital leaves the economy vulnerable to global shocks. Thailand must change course.