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Thailand targets skills gap: `We can't even invent a motorbike'
Bloomberg News, Published on 19/07/2017
» Thailand’s Education Minister Teerakiat Jareonsettasin poses a rhetorical question as he ponders the task of making innovation a bigger engine of economic growth: Would people prefer an electric car developed in the Southeast Asian nation, or one made by Tesla Inc?
Japan slowly opens door to foreign maids
Business, Bloomberg News, Published on 09/01/2017
» In a Japanese-style apartment, Maria Del Bago learns how to properly bow, clean traditional tatami floor-matting and decipher instructions for a high-tech toilet.
Rice out, beans in as farmers go back to school
Bloomberg News, Published on 11/03/2016
» Rice farmer Prapatpon Rungsatien perches on a plastic chair in a Chai Nat classroom. Ceiling fans stir the humid air as she and 49 of her neighbours hunker down for a talk on Southeast Asian economics.
Thai society’s chasm 'must be bridged'
Bloomberg News, Published on 27/05/2014
» Thailand’s societal "chasm" needs to be bridged to bring stability to Southeast Asia’s second- biggest economy after the military took power, according to Singapore Foreign Affairs Minister K. Shanmugam.