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The isan 'Problem'
Spectrum, Nanchanok Wongsamuth, Published on 10/08/2014
» Throughout history, Isan has seen "revolts", "mad people's movements", "segregation bids" and "communist domination". Anthropologist Charles Keyes writes in his book Finding Their Voice: Northeastern Villagers and the Thai State that the 1901 Phu Mi Bun uprising in Isan, which followed economic restrictions and tax burdens, foreshadowed the subsequent challenges by rural northeasterners to the Thai state's authority.
Firms welcome target-industry incentives
Business, Nanchanok Wongsamuth, Published on 15/01/2013
» Business leaders have welcomed the Board of Investment's (BoI) new five-year promotion policy but cautioned the agency to cautiously abandon the existing zone-based regime following the nationwide minimum-wage hike.