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Consumers still lack confidence
News, Umesh Pandey, Published on 03/09/2017
» For those readers who have not read the business stories over the past week, let me recap some of the interesting issues that were written about by our intrepid business writers. Stories such as the Revenue Department coming out to openly state that their tax collection for the first 10 months of the fiscal year (October 2016 to July 2017) was 4% below the target came as a shock to many. The reason given for the shortfall was the lower collection of value added tax (VAT) that you and I pay for consuming.
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Time to ease 'I'm the boss' attitude
News, Umesh Pandey, Published on 02/07/2017
» Waking up on Tuesday for most Thais was just another day but by evening there was a whole lot of social media buzz on a decision by the cabinet passed earlier in the day -- the decision to build a Bangkok Observatory.
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Rail project right on time for election
News, Umesh Pandey, Published on 18/06/2017
» The government of Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha late into the week came out to say Section 44 will be used to expedite the construction of the long-delayed 252-kilometre railway linking Bangkok to Nakhon Ratchasima.
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Valuable lessons from falling ranking
News, Umesh Pandey, Published on 19/03/2017
» Many of my friends were excited to see their universities continue to rule the charts in Thailand when the annual ranking of universities in Asia was announced late last week. The jubilation of those graduating from the likes of Mahidol, King Mongkut's University of Technology Thonburi (KMUTT) or Chulalongkorn University was all good, but little did anyone appreciate that all of these revered institutions actually saw their rankings slip from the previous survey.
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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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After the vote, economic limbo beckons
News, Umesh Pandey, Published on 04/08/2016
» As the nation holds its breath for the outcome of the constitutional referendum on Sunday, some of the government's think tanks are already preparing for the possibility of a dramatic slowdown in economic activity after the vote.
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No solution in sight to our traffic woes
News, Umesh Pandey, Published on 25/08/2016
» I don't know how many of you had a chance to read a report this week that said the busiest road in Bangkok was Vibhavadi Rangsit Road.The gateway to the North and the Northeast, Vibhavadi Rangsit sees an average of 158,711 vehicles per day.
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Overcoming the China Syndrome
Asia focus, Umesh Pandey, Published on 13/07/2015
» It was with relief that we all started to notice the Chinese markets rebounding near the end of last week as many foreign investors started to pour money into what is still an overpriced market.
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Let's get connectivity back on the rails
Asia focus, Umesh Pandey, Published on 24/11/2014
» The military government is embarking on yet another ambitious infrastructure project that would link China to Thailand, and possibly in the future to southern neighbours Malaysia and Singapore.
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Don’t blame Cambodia for Asean bust-up
Asia focus, Umesh Pandey, Published on 23/07/2012
» There is no bigger news in Asean these days than the collapse of efforts to produce a joint communique after the recent 45th ministerial meeting in Phnom Penh. Much of the blame has been laid at the feet of host Cambodia but that misses the larger point.
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