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Worries about korea and france keep trade subdued
Business, Published on 24/04/2017
» Recap: Global stock markets were subdued earlier last week amid concerns over mounting geopolitical tension on the Korean peninsula and Sunday's first-round presidential election in France. However, sentiment for risk assets improved later as optimism spread about US tax reform. The Thai stock market moved back and forth amid a dearth of positive catalysts.
The cashless society is just another creepy fantasy
News, Elaine Ou, Published on 21/10/2016
» It's fun to imagine a world without cash.
Theft out of need may not be crime
News, Published on 05/05/2016
» Stealing food from a supermarket may not be a crime in Italy if you are homeless and hungry, the nation's highest appeals court has ruled.In a case that has drawn comparisons to Les Miserables, the Supreme Court of Cassation threw out the conviction of a homeless man from Ukraine, Roman Ostriakov, who was caught trying to take €4.07 (about 164 baht) worth of cheese and sausage from a store in Genoa without paying for it. A trial court sentenced him in February 2015 to six months in jail and a fine of €100.
Gains in oil and fall in Dollar lift Asian shares
Business, Published on 20/04/2015
» Recap: Asian stock markets, especially China, Korea, Hong Kong and Malaysia, marched upward in response to an oil price recovery and hopes that the US Federal Reserve will delay its rate increase in light of weaker US economic data. A buying spree in energy shares also pushed up the Thai stock market in the shortened week after the long Songkran holiday.
China rejects Taiwan as AIIB founding member
Published on 13/04/2015
» BEIJING/TAIPEI — Taiwan is not able to become a founding member of the Beijing-led Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) but is still welcome to become an ordinary member in the future, the Chinese government said on Monday.
What's lurking in the shadows of China's banks?
Asia focus, Published on 22/09/2014
» "Shadow banking" is a surprisingly colourful term for our staid economics profession. Intended or not, it conjures up images of dark, sinister, and even shady transactions. With a name like "shadow banking" it must be bad. This is unfair. While the profession lacks a uniform definition, it involves financial intermediation that takes place outside of banks — and this can be good, bad, or otherwise.
Burma: Hillary Clinton's historic visit
Jon Fernquest, Published on 02/12/2011
» Analysis of Hillary Clinton's historic visit to Burma by scholar Ernest Bower of the Centre for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) in Singapore.