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Corporate strategies needed for tightening prime office market
Spectrum, Published on 10/02/2013
» The happy days for occupants of prime office buildings in Bangkok's main business areas are coming to an end. With limited new supply and growing demand, this market segment is now in full recovery.
Spreading light in a murky world
Spectrum, Phil Thornton, Published on 23/12/2012
» Bunsiri was 15 when she ran away from home. Despite having only 20% vision she had been doing well at school. With the help of her stepfather Bunsiri had fought for years to go to school and had learned to read and write.
Vientiane says sorry for broken Xayaburi ground
Spectrum, Parista Yuthamanop, Published on 25/11/2012
» Considering the scale of the project and the controversy it has caused, the ground-breaking ceremony for the Xayaburi dam was a relatively quiet affair.
Guilty until proved innocent
Spectrum, Published on 09/09/2012
» On her way to a Kalasin police station on July 11, Nuttha Phirommak's heart was breaking as she thought of the predicament her 17-year-old son, Tew, was in. Police there had detained him for murdering three people and injuring three others in a gun attack.
Pipe dreaming
Spectrum, Published on 19/08/2012
» Early on in Steven Martin's prodigiously researched and at times painfully honest memoir Opium Fiend: 21st Century Slave to a 19th Century Addiction, he explains his nostalgia for opium's past. The way he sees it, the historic substance _ a 2000 Vanity Fair article by Nick Tosches referred to it as a "medicine and holy panacea older than any known god" _ suffered an ignoble decline in the face of post-colonial globalisation.
Power plays on the Mekong
Spectrum, Post Reporters, Published on 29/07/2012
» Eventually, we could proceed no further. In the distance, a one-metre high gravel barrier emerged from the brownish waters of the Mekong, the planned construction site of the controversial Xayaburi Dam. As we moved closer, we could see the gravel wall had blocked most of the width of the river and there was only a small channel with rocks and rapids left for the longtail boat to navigate through.
Here, There, Everywhere: Alternative workplace strategies prove valuable
Spectrum, Published on 29/07/2012
» Alternative workplace strategies (AWS) result in increased cost savings, more efficient space utilisation, higher productivity. But despite these and other benefits very few companies in Thailand have adapted AWS. However, as undersupply in the Grade A Bangkok office market grows, companies are finding it difficult to expand their offices in existing buildings or secure larger spaces in new ones. As a result, many companies are reconsidering AWS.
For-profit business model sees citizens reap dividends
Spectrum, Ezra Kyrill Erker, Published on 03/06/2012
» In Yangon an organisation, FXB Myanmar, gives vocational training and business opportunities to HIV-positive workers and women rescued from the Thai sex industry. A manufacturer of affordable foot pumps for irrigation, Proximity Designs, has a network of distribution channels to upcountry farmers that NGOs and government organisations envy. BusinessKind-Myanmar sells low-cost mosquito netting in malarial and dengue fever regions, and half of its work force is also HIV-positive. Myanmar Business Executives provides low-interest microcredit and networking outlets to needy individuals and organisations.
Emerging drug-resistant strain a fierce foe in malaria battle
Spectrum, Published on 06/05/2012
» Malaria remains a public health concern in Thailand even though the number of infected patients has declined tremendously from 125,000 in 1998 to 35,600 in 2007 and 34,002 in 2011. What's causing alarm among officials now, however, is the emerging resistance of Plasmodium falciparum _ the parasite responsible for malaria _ to conventional drugs.
Therapy sees Parkinson's sufferers dancing away symptoms
Spectrum, Published on 29/04/2012
» When Surang Janyasing was diagnosed with Parkinson's disease five years ago she was devastated. The 55-year-old mid-ranking police officer knew that the disease cannot be cured, and that she would be on medication for the rest of her life, with the probability of deteriorating health.