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    BMA mulls transferring new rail lines

    Supoj Wancharoen, Published on 02/08/2022

    » Bangkok governor Chadchart Sittipunt now wants to transfer two new electric rail projects to the Mass Rapid Transit Authority of Thailand (MRTA), while City Hall is still struggling to clear up problems surrounding the Green Line’s concessions.

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    China Has a Problem With Data Leaks. One Reason Is Its Surveillance State.

    Business, Published on 23/07/2022

    » To protect sensitive data, China's government has built one of the world's strictest cybersecurity and data-protection regimes.

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    Year of Turbulence

    Asia focus, Published on 27/12/2021

    » Pandemic drags on recovery: In the early stages of the Covid-19 pandemic in 2020, many Asian countries had enviable success, avoiding large-scale outbreaks and mass deaths. But the arrival of the more transmissible Delta variant this year and sluggish vaccine rollouts compounded by low availability sent cases surging. Combined with poor monitoring and easy movement among countries, often unofficially, Southeast Asia became a virus hotspot. The ballooning health crisis collided with churning political discontent in the case of Myanmar, Thailand and Malaysia. Economically, the new wave of infections, and attendant restrictions imposed to curb the spread, stalled recoveries. After nearly two years of strict border controls, many countries started to loosen up and live with Covid. But the rise of the Omicron variant now threatens to scuttle those tentative reopening plans and usher in a third year of economic anxiety.

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    Charting the way forward

    Business, Published on 04/11/2021

    » At UOB, we expect that the United States, the world's largest economy, will continue to dominate and to drive financial markets for years to come. After a challenging year of Covid-19 lockdowns in 2020, the US is looking to recover to full economic activity with the help of mass vaccinations, expansionary monetary policy and fiscal support from the government.

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    Digital consumers and their grocery carts

    Business, Published on 20/12/2019

    » Mass disruption in retail is in the headlines, and we all know why: the rise of mobile, greater access to data, more transparency due to the internet, and so on. But what about groceries?

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    Silver linings in the crypto cloud

    Business, Published on 03/02/2023

    » It was a tough year for crypto and blockchain. We experienced severe breaches of trust, resulting in an adverse hit to the public and regulators' perception of the industry.

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    HP boss drafts resilience plan

    Business, Suchit Leesa-nguansuk, Published on 13/03/2023

    » Varanit Athijaratroj, HP Inc Thailand's first female managing director, has outlined her three-year plan to make the computer giant more resilient and prepared for the future to overcome challenges in the PC market and drive long-term profit growth.

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    3 ways to advance the EV industry in 1 year

    Asia focus, Published on 11/07/2022

    » The verdict is in: the future is electric. Global electric vehicle (EV) sales are projected to soar to 31.2 million units by 2030, compared with 2.5 million in 2020, according to the consultancy Deloitte. It sees EVs making up 32% of all motor vehicle sales by 2030, and other industry analysts estimate that by 2040, electric cars will outsell internal-combustion engine (ICE) models.

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    Development the natural way

    Asia focus, Apiradee Treerutkuarkul, Published on 11/07/2022

    » Southeast Asian countries don't have to follow the economic development models of the last century to grow and thrive, say advocates for a nature-based economic model.

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