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Tourist in fatal hotel plunge
News, Published on 02/01/2013
» A 21-year-old Australian tourist who had sought treatment for mental illness died yesterday after he jumped from the 9th floor of a hotel on Patong beach in Phuket, police said.
Airline safety hits new high-water mark
Business, Boonsong Kositchotethana, Published on 18/12/2012
» Flying continues to get safer and safer. Barring no accidents over the next fortnight, global airlines will end 2012 with a record safety performance.
History shows only the courageous innovate
Business, Detlef Reis, Published on 13/09/2012
» In the previous column, we learned what courage means, what types of courage there are and why courage is essential. But courage is not only a key virtue of top achievers and thought leaders. It is also an essential component of creativity and innovation. In fact, courage is required at each stage of the creative process. In Thinkergy's X-IDEA Method, we call these stages Xploration, Ideation, Development, Evaluation and Action.
Euro-Zone crisis? What crisis? It all depends on how you define it
Business, Published on 13/07/2012
» What constitutes a crisis? Is it sustained economic decline, high and long-term unemployment, poverty, rampant inflation, a precipitous fall in the exchange rate, fiscal deficits, high borrowing costs, and political dysfunction? Most would agree that a crisis exists if just some of these "misery indices" are present. But while Europe is widely perceived to be in the grip of crisis, only a handful of them are present, and in only a few euro-zone countries.
Food industry still upbeat
Business, Nanchanok Wongsamuth, Published on 19/04/2012
» Despite higher wages than Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar and Vietnam, the Thai food industry still has promise and retains potential for growth over the next three years before regional economic integration takes place.
Impressive safety record bodes well for the future
Business, Imtiaz Muqbil, Published on 04/01/2012
» After the casualty count of the annual long holiday road carnage is tallied, Thailand may find it sobering to compare the final tally to the number of accidents and fatalities in the scheduled commercial air transport sector worldwide.