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Motorbike CO2 tax 'not aimed at profit'
Business, Wichit Chantanusornsiri, Published on 27/03/2018
» The planned tax on motorcycles and oil that is to be based on carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions exceeding the maximum threshold is not aimed at making profits, but rather for environmental purposes, says the Excise Department.
Oman Air opens Bangkok hub
Business, Suchat Sritama, Published on 27/03/2018
» Oman Air has relocated its regional head office from Singapore to Bangkok. The move is expected to help Thailand benefit from the travel boom between Asia and the Middle East.
'Mindful' reporting
News, Postbag, Published on 27/03/2018
» Re: "Looking for 'Asean way' in Rohingya crisis", (Opinion, March 26).
Co-working spaces still hold sway
Business, Published on 27/03/2018
» An estimated 171,000 square metres of new supply is expected to enter the property market this year, all of which will be located outside of areas typically defined as the Central Business District, says property consultant Knight Frank Thailand.
BoT seen holding key rate as growth improves, inflation low
Reuters, Published on 26/03/2018
» Thailand's central bank is expected to leave its policy rate unchanged again on Wednesday as the economy is gaining traction while domestic demand is soft and inflation subdued.
PDMO budgets up to B50bn for yearly borrowing in EEC
Business, Wichit Chantanusornsiri, Published on 26/03/2018
» The Public Debt Management Office (PDMO) plans to earmark 30-50 billion baht a year from its annual borrowing to finance the government's 1-trillion-baht infrastructure investment in the much-touted Eastern Economic Corridor (EEC) project.
Asia's energy challenge
Asia focus, Tanyatorn Tongwaranan, Published on 26/03/2018
» Asia's rapid development over the past four decades has transformed the region's stature in the world economy, lifting hundreds of millions of people out of poverty and creating new opportunities for future prosperity.
Ride-hailing apps run Indonesian tuk-tuks off road
AFP, Published on 25/03/2018
» JAKARTA: Auto-rickshaw driver Zainuddin used to make decent money navigating Jakarta's congested roads and narrow alleyways.
Self-driving cars are safer than you behind the wheel
News, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 24/03/2018
» There are always some casualties when a new form of transportation comes along. In 1830, at the official opening of the world's first railway, the Liverpool and Manchester Railway, a well-known British politician, William Huskisson, was struck and killed by a locomotive. He was known to be clumsy and accident-prone, but it still cast a pall over the proceedings.
Obesity could become chief avoidable cancer cause: UK charity
AFP, Published on 23/03/2018
» LONDON - Obesity could overtake smoking as the chief avoidable cause of cancer-related deaths, the world's largest independent funder of cancer research said Friday.