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Apec host's budding marijuana industry faces backlash
Bloomberg News, Published on 17/11/2022
» Near the grand conference halls in central Bangkok where Asian leaders will meet this week, a plethora of marijuana shops - the Thai capital's newest tourist draw - were bustling despite a controversy that threatens the growing sector.
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Thailand mulls easing Covid test rules for overseas visitors
Bloomberg News, Published on 07/04/2022
» Thailand will consider scrapping a mandatory real-time polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) test on arrival for foreign visitors as the country further relaxes its visa rules to attract tourists.
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ADB: Covid erases 9 million jobs in Southeast Asia
Bloomberg News, Published on 16/03/2022
» The Covid-19 pandemic obliterated 9.3 million jobs in Southeast Asia as lockdowns hit the region’s traditional engines of growth such as hospitality and tourism, according to the Asian Development Bank (ADB).
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Crisis at billionaire Charoen’s insurance firms rattles industry
Bloomberg News, Published on 24/02/2022
» Thailand’s richest man, Charoen Sirivadhanabhakdi, built a 516-billion-baht fortune mostly from liquor and retailing. He’s had a tougher ride in the financial sector.
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Singapore raising GST and taxes on wealthy
Bloomberg News, Published on 18/02/2022
» Singapore is raising taxes on the wealthy and increasing other levies, including the Goods and Services Tax (GST), to restore its finances after unprecedented expenditures to weather the coronavirus pandemic.
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Thailand set for tourist rush with quarantine-free visas
Bloomberg News, Published on 01/02/2022
» Thailand expects to welcome hundreds of thousands of holidaymakers a month with the kickoff of a quarantine-free visa program that is set to serve as a model for tourism-reliant countries balancing safe border reopenings with economic revival.
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Govt mulls resuming quarantine-free travel programme
Bloomberg News, Published on 17/01/2022
» The government may revive the quarantine-free visa programme for vaccinated travellers from abroad, less than a month after suspending the waiver, as fears of a new wave of Omicron-driven Covid cases recede.
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Baht falls most in a month after govt raises Covid alert level
Bloomberg News, Published on 06/01/2022
» The baht fell the most since late November after the government raised the Covid-19 alert to the second-highest level, further dimming the recovery of the tourism sector.
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YouTube going to hide 'dislike' counts
Business, Bloomberg News, Published on 12/11/2021
» YouTube will no longer show the number of "dislikes" on videos, an attempt to make the platform more hospitable to creators.
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Legalisation of kratom spurs rush of online sales
Bloomberg News, Published on 12/09/2021
» Entrepreneur Sittichai Komam didn’t waste time once the government in late August decriminalised kratom, a coffee-like plant native to Southeast Asia that can give users a mild high.
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