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Liu's case has lesson for Thailand
News, Umesh Pandey, Published on 16/07/2017
» Late on Thursday, China and its actions caught the attention of the world community when it was announced that 2010 Nobel Peace laureate Liu Xiaobo had passed away at 61 after losing his fight with liver cancer.
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Decisive and diversified
Asia focus, Umesh Pandey, Published on 24/04/2017
» Many critics wrote off Kumar Mangalam Birla when he took the helm of one of India's leading businesses as a 28-year-old rookie. But the reviews in recent years have been mostly positive for the man who has helped build a conglomerate that is among the world leaders in the fields in which it operates.
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Rethink due on laws of surrogacy
News, Umesh Pandey, Published on 23/04/2017
» The recent arrest of a 25-year-old man trying to smuggle a yet to be determined substance into Vientiane, Laos, is a case that highlights the need for laws to be more comprehensive when they are passed.
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Airline saga stirs social media power
News, Umesh Pandey, Published on 16/04/2017
» The world is talking about how a paying passenger of Asian origin was mistreated on his flight from Chicago because an airline needed to clear up space for four of its crew members.
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Bangkok on the road to nowhere
News, Umesh Pandey, Published on 26/02/2017
» The past week saw lots of interesting stories, but the one that caught my attention was about the traffic jams. Best of all was the reaction by our government on the reasons for the rise in congestion on the streets in Bangkok.
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Shutting down BRT a poor decision
News, Umesh Pandey, Published on 09/02/2017
» For the nearly 24,000 commuters of Bangkok who rely on the Bangkok Rapid Transit (BRT) system to go to work and back, the news is bad. The Bangkok Metropolitan Administration (BMA), citing a big financial loss, has decided to terminate the BRT service as early as April.
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Caught in a messy web of S44 orders
News, Umesh Pandey, Published on 30/09/2016
» On Wednesday, Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha graciously decided he was going to come to the Bangkok Post Forum which until the last minute was looking a little dicey due to some hiccups at Government House at the start of the week.
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In the picture
Asia focus, Umesh Pandey, Published on 30/11/2015
» Like many others who have made it to the top, Nick Woodman started out by pursuing a personal interest -- in this case looking for a better way to film his surfing holiday. The result was the GoPro wearable camera and a personal fortune estimated at $2.4 billion.
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Air of disruption
Asia focus, Umesh Pandey, Published on 02/11/2015
» 'For entrepreneurs, choosing your co-founders is like a professional marriage," says Nathan Blecharczyk. "You're going to go through tough times and you need to remember that ideas can change but business partners can't."
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Exploring new frontiers
Asia focus, Umesh Pandey, Published on 05/10/2015
» Group Lease Plc, one of Thailand's leading hire/purchase operators, says that it expects its regional business to go to a point that its home turf business would account for merely 5% of its total portfolio by the end of this decade.
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