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Foreign worker crackdown: Small mom & pop businesses suffering
Jon Fernquest, Published on 17/07/2017
» Big corporate hotels & restaurant chains want the small cheap mom & pop restaurants & guesthouses licensed or shut down.
Thailand copes with super baht 20 years after crash
Jon Fernquest, Published on 30/06/2017
» On 20th anniversary of Asian Financial Crisis new challenges ahead: educational upgrade, attracting foreign direct investment & coping with ageing population.
University research: R&D money to boost competitiveness
Jon Fernquest, Published on 05/06/2017
» Stimulating research in areas of food, agriculture, healthcare, biomedical & biotech; AI, robotics & creative economy, aim of new govt program & funding.
China's growth edges up but 2016 weakest year since 1990
Jon Fernquest, Published on 20/01/2017
» As China's economy slows, fears of President Trump tariffs loom, debt increased to stimulate economy & privatization of state enterprises planned.
Attracting Chinese tourists: Cambodia's new strategy
Jon Fernquest, Published on 30/06/2016
» Cambodian Chinese tourist arrivals 694,712 last year, Thailand 7.9 million, Vietnam 1.6 million, to catch up 5-year strategy formulated.
Thailand now free of mother-to-baby HIV transmission
Jon Fernquest, Published on 08/06/2016
» Thailand first in Asia to achieve milestone of freeing infants of mother-child HIV transmission, dropping from 10.3% in 2003 to 1.91% in 2015.
General Prem's ten anti-corruption commandments
Jon Fernquest, Published on 14/12/2015
» 1. Be transparent, 2. promote meritocracy, 3. shun corrupt people, 4. teach ethics to children, 5. have business ethics, 6. prosecute the corrupt, 7. support anti-corruption organizations, 8. govt officers make agencies clean & install audit systems, 9. send 'corruption damages the nation' message in media, 10. swift prosecution of corrupt.
What's new in business news: April 2, 2015
Jon Fernquest, Published on 02/04/2015
» Purple shirts & banknotes mark princess's birthday, staff turnover & brain drain behind flight ban crisis & deflation in Thailand & Asean could lead to lower growth & rising debt.
What's new in business news: February 24, 2015
Jon Fernquest, Published on 24/02/2015
» Thai Airways to sell airplanes & change routes to cut losses, shortage of skilled & educated workers could slow down economy & govt wants to privatise Airport Rail Link.
What's new in business news: January 27, 2015
Jon Fernquest, Published on 27/01/2015
» Hospitals threaten boycott in battle over universal healthcare, state enterprises to be eliminated & restructured & Bank of Ayudhya share price plunges as rumour of Japanese purchase proves false.