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Malaysia eyes legal reforms
News, Published on 09/12/2024
» As the 2025 chair of Asean, Malaysia aims to focus on business law reforms to ensure legal protections for businesses across Asean member countries, said Azalina Othman Said, Minister in the Prime Minister's Department of Law and Institutional Reform.
Trump returns to world stage at Notre-Dame reopening
Published on 07/12/2024
» PARIS - US President-elect Donald Trump returns to the world stage on Saturday to join leaders for the reopening of Notre-Dame Cathedral in Paris, still a private citizen but already preparing to tackle a host of international crises.
CP LAND Wins “Community Initiative Award” at ACES Awards 2024
Published on 06/12/2024
» C.P. LAND Public Company Limited, a prominent leader in Thailand’s real estate sector, was honoured with the Community Initiative Award at the Asia’s Corporate Excellence & Sustainability (ACES) Awards 2024, hosted by MORS Group. This prestigious award recognises organisations for initiatives that benefit communities and promote sustainability at both industry and regional levels. CP LAND is the first real estate company in Thailand to receive this accolade for its “Solar Cell for Life” project, a model community initiative in Kiriwong Village, Kam Lon Subdistrict, Lan Saka District, Nakhon Si Thammarat Province. Focusing on the quality-of-life enhancement in rural communities through the installation of solar-powered streetlights in areas with limited access to electricity. The initiative not only enhances community livelihoods, well-being, and daily road safety but also promotes local tourism and economic activities, as well as alternative sustainable energy usage.
World order frays as chaos rises
Oped, Published on 06/12/2024
» At 82, I have lived through countless political and social upheavals, enough to become somewhat inured to history's recurring cycles. But recent developments have left me profoundly shaken and afraid.
Trump's tariff blackmail boosts Brics
Oped, Thitinan Pongsudhirak, Published on 06/12/2024
» Even before officially taking office, United States President-elect Donald J Trump is shaking up the international system with drama and fanfare unlike any other major leader in recent memory. His most recent outburst to slap 100% tariffs on the "Brics" countries -- Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa, as well as Egypt, Ethiopia, Iran and the United Arab Emirates -- is a case in point. While it will coerce developing economies to think twice about the cost of going their own way, this tariff blackmail and others like it also risk pushing smaller countries away from the US to other rival big powers, particularly China.
China warns against ‘worship’ of faster growth
Published on 05/12/2024
» Chinese state media have warned against blindly chasing faster growth and signalled more focus on boosting consumption in a flurry of articles setting the stage for a key economic meeting next week.
How China and Japan's values 'differ'
Oped, Published on 05/12/2024
» Malaysia's former prime minister Mahathir Mohamad famously saluted "Asian values" citing "diffidence" as one of the characteristics that ostensibly made Asians different, though he did so in an arrogant, attention-grabbing kind of way. More successful was his "Look East Policy", (which, from the geographic confines of Malaysia is actually the Philippines) and there was no mistaking that it was Japan that Mr Mahathir had in mind, with China hovering somewhere out of focus in the background.
SET poised to witness volatile first half in 2025
Business, Nuntawun Polkuamdee, Published on 04/12/2024
» The Stock Exchange of Thailand (SET) should remain volatile during the first half of 2025, weighed down by renewed US-China trade tensions and a slowing global economy, particularly the two economic superpowers, says Bualuang Securities (BLS).
Declining competitiveness, loan growth dent GDP outlook
Nareerat Wiriyapong, Published on 04/12/2024
» The deteriorating competitiveness of Thai automotive companies coupled with contracting loan growth and uncertainty regarding US president-elect Donald Trump's trade policies pose threats to the Thai economy next year, say economists who downgraded the nation's GDP growth outlook.