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Risks and rewards of Beijing's BRI
News, Poramet Tangsathaporn, Published on 17/07/2025
» Thailand may play a pivotal role in advancing China's vision of regional connectivity through the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), but scholars caution that while the initiative presents substantial opportunities, it also brings significant challenges.
Economic headwinds dampen outlook
News, Published on 11/07/2025
» Thailand's economic outlook is worsening amid rising pressure from steep new US tariffs, with business leaders warning that the country risks losing its competitive edge unless urgent policy action is taken.
Express delivery pivots to new markets
Business, Published on 07/07/2025
» Some express delivery operators in Thailand are charting new growth paths to avoid reliance on e-commerce platforms.
Manufacturing Expo 2025 Showcases Global Innovation in Bangkok
Published on 18/06/2025
» BANGKOK, June 18, 2025 – Manufacturing Expo 2025 officially opened today at the Bangkok International Trade & Exhibition Centre (BITEC), presenting a transformative platform for the future of industry. Organised by RX Tradex, the event is ASEAN’s most comprehensive showcase of machinery and manufacturing technology, featuring seven specialised exhibitions under one roof. Spanning more than 45,000 square metres, the expo brings together over 2,000 leading brands from 30 countries and offers more than 100 insightful seminar sessions for professionals across all sectors.
Vietnam keeps growth target at 8% despite tariff challenges
Published on 05/05/2025
» Vietnam’s prime minister said the nation’s economic growth target remains unchanged this year despite the many challenges it faces, as the threat of US tariffs creates uncertainty for exporters and businesses.
Senate Pushes AI and Data Centre Growth
Published on 31/03/2025
» The Senate Committee on Information, Communication and Telecommunications Technology is expediting its strategy to promote investment in data centres and the adoption of artificial intelligence (AI) to strengthen Thailand’s digital economy. The committee has mobilised 71 organisations from the government and private sectors to host a major seminar aimed at exchanging knowledge, identifying challenges, and stimulating the development of domestic data centres. The initiative seeks to reduce reliance on foreign technology, enhance national technological capabilities, and accelerate the development of skilled manpower, with a goal of cultivating one million AI professionals.
Centre-left parties must regain relevance in Germany
Oped, Published on 01/03/2025
» Germany's Social Democrats are one of the West's oldest political parties, with a legacy of advocating parliamentary democracy, opposing Nazism, and leading the modernisation of postwar Germany. In addition to many notable labour, economic, and human-rights reforms the party has implemented over the years, ex-SPD leader and West German chancellor Willy Brandt's Ostpolitik in the 1970s laid the groundwork for Germany's reunification in 1990.
Cabinet set for Songkhla with eye on development
News, Anucha Charoenpo, Published on 13/02/2025
» The government is holding its first mobile cabinet meeting of the year in Songkhla next Tuesday, focusing on the development of the southern region's east coast and the Sadao border trade gateway between Thailand and Malaysia.
Two wasted decades in Thai politics
Oped, Thitinan Pongsudhirak, Published on 20/12/2024
» Now that Thaksin Shinawatra appears actively back in Thai politics, it is demoralising to look back at Thailand's wasted time and opportunities. Once a promising country on the way from democratic transition to consolidation in the late 1990s, Thailand has become semi-autocratic, and its rocky political trajectory over the past two decades is now structural. The traditional institutions of power that grew out of the Cold War have been calling the shots in earlier decades and are just unwilling to let the country move forward in the immediate years ahead.
China-Thailand Railway: A New Era of Connectivity
Published on 23/11/2024
» With the roar of the whistle, a Harmony train loaded with "Made in Anning" departed from Anning North Port, Kunming International Dry Port, China, delivered the goods to Bangkok, Thailand via the China-Laos-Thailand Railway, and finally arrived at Ranong by road transportation. Meanwhile, another freight train loaded with Thai fruits also departed from Larang, passing through Vientiane, Laos, and finally arriving in Anning, Yunnan Province.