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Mastering the message
Asia focus, Nareerat Wiriyapong, Published on 08/02/2021
» The room where Michael Macdonald, chief digital officer of Huawei Technologies, works every day doesn't look like a typical executive office. Most of the large space is almost empty and without furniture, except for a plain desk with a large-screen PC on it and a microphone stand clamped to one corner.
Supply chain shake-up
Asia focus, Nareerat Wiriyapong, Published on 21/09/2020
» For decades, low-cost supply with minimal inventory were the key tenets of supply chain management. Lean manufacturing and just-in-time delivery were how companies across the globe achieved cost control and production efficiency.
Seeds of resilience
Asia focus, Nareerat Wiriyapong, Published on 03/08/2020
» Khing Khing Soe has been growing rice, groundnuts, pigeon peas, sesame, chickpeas and onions for over two decades on her farm at Ba Lon village in Myingyan district of Myanmar. But in the past three years declining rainfall as a result of climate change has reduced her crop yields by about 30%.
Hoping for the best
Asia focus, Nareerat Wiriyapong, Published on 29/07/2019
» As the United States and China prepare to resume talks tomorrow in Shanghai in a bid to resolve their year-old trade war, businesses around the world are preparing for just about any outcome.
Programming with passion
Asia focus, Nareerat Wiriyapong, Published on 23/07/2018
» Rebecca Parsons loves the great outdoors, whether it's exploring the Dalmatian Coast in southern Croatia, the Galapagos Islands or the upper Amazon, to get an up-close look at a fascinating ecosystem.
At home in Asean
Asia focus, Nareerat Wiriyapong, Published on 05/02/2018
» The first thing that impressed me about Hideaki Iwasaki, country director for the Thailand Resident Mission of the Asian Development Bank (ADB), was his fluent English. I assumed it was the result of his educational background.
The main event
Asia focus, Nareerat Wiriyapong, Published on 27/06/2016
» When Tim Cobbold first arrived at the London headquarters of UBM Plc two years ago, he was stepping into a business that was very different from those he'd been involved in previously. Ever since then, the 53-year-old CEO has been redefining the direction of the media company to focus completely on the event business.
Investors keen on Asean but sceptical about AEC
Asia focus, Nareerat Wiriyapong, Published on 18/05/2015
» The risk is growing that investors will turn their attention back to developed countries as reforms in Asean proceed at a glacial pace, while scepticism mounts about the successful launch of the Asean Economic Community (AEC), experts have warned.
Winning the AEC race
Asia focus, Nareerat Wiriyapong, Published on 22/09/2014
» Asean is poised to become one of the world's big growth markets, led by economies not yet fully tapped such as Vietnam and Myanmar. But small and mid-sized domestic companies fear being left out amid the intensified competition that regional integration will bring.
SCG Paper budgets B13bn
Business, Nareerat Wiriyapong, Published on 30/04/2013
» KANCHANABURI : SCG Paper, a wholly-owned unit of Siam Cement Group (SCG), set a budget of 13 billion baht this year and next in part to set up manufacturing bases in Indonesia and Myanmar.