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Pattaya condo market pauses
Business, Published on 23/01/2018
» The Pattaya condominium market has been quite popular in the past seven years, especially between 2011 and 2013 when new unit launches were the highest in the history of the beach resort city in Chon Buri.
Against the flow
Life, Ariane Sutthavong, Published on 22/01/2018
» 'There used to be vendors hawking fresh vegetables in the sois and wholesale rice traders in several shophouses," Tip, a resident of Bangkok's Charoen Nakhon neighbourhood, notes.
Democracy and graft
News, Postbag, Published on 22/01/2018
» Re: "Beware fool's dream", (PostBag, Jan 16).
The innocent isle
B Magazine, Published on 21/01/2018
» A country just beginning to realise its tourism potential can be a wonderful place to visit. You can enjoy its natural delights free of the scams and overcrowding associated with more famous destinations that have had their charms tainted by the very industry that first put them on the map.
Si Thep Historical Park aims for place on world list
News, Published on 20/01/2018
» The thousand-year-old Si Thep Historical Park in Phetchabun is being proposed for Unesco's tentative list of new heritage sites, according to the National Council for Peace and Order (NCPO).
We're an ageing society. More sex please?
News, Wasant Techawongtham, Published on 20/01/2018
» The Thai government wants its citizens to have more sex. Yes, really.
Egat seeks to insulate itself from technological disruption
Business, Yuthana Praiwan, Published on 18/01/2018
» The Electricity Generating Authority of Thailand (Egat) is preparing to revamp its business operations as it shifts its emphasis to innovation and disruptive technologies.
Relax, a wage boom won’t unleash demon of inflation
News, Jamie McGeever, Published on 18/01/2018
» Bond yields around the world are rising as the pieces of the inflation jigsaw fall into place: a booming world economy, high and rising oil prices, strong corporate capex spending and the lowest unemployment rates in decades.
Dubai the model of a modern Middle East economy
News, Matthew Winkler, Published on 16/01/2018
» For more than 100 years, the Middle East has been defined by oil exploration, production and its boundaries. Now the region is getting re-purposed by its aspiration to grow beyond fossil fuel. The shake-up in Saudi Arabia's royal family was as much about becoming a 21st-century economy as it was about rooting out corruption.
Small-screen fame and fortune
Asia focus, Nithi Kaveevivitchai, Published on 08/01/2018
» The livestreaming boom in Asia is creating a new kind of celebrity in a multi-billion-dollar business, with millions of viewers willing to tune in for hours every day.