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Japanese firm hails Thai embrace of robotics
Business, Chatrudee Theparat, Published on 19/02/2018
» Robotics in Thailand is thriving on rising demand in Asia and around the globe as automation helps reduce manufacturing costs and the space needed at factories, says a Japanese electronics executive.
Powering the EV surge
Business, Published on 19/02/2018
» The government is keen on transforming Thailand into a global production hub for electric vehicles (EVs), offering measures to encourage local car factories to build this new generation of automobiles, but uncertainty persists about how to generate demand in the domestic market.
FPO declares landlords can lock in windfall tax exemption
Business, Wichit Chantanusornsiri, Published on 20/02/2018
» Landlords who lock in bumper profits from selling land near transport infrastructure projects can be exempt from the land windfall tax if they buy and sell the same plot during the same four-year implementation period of the Treasury Department’s land appraisal prices, says a tax expert at the Fiscal Policy Office (FPO).
1.6 Development looks to lay luxury cornerstone
Business, Published on 21/02/2018
» Tanyatip Chearavanont is betting her eight-month-old real estate firm, 1.6 Development, can take on the country's large players in the ultra-luxury sector as it launches a 5.5-billion-baht mixed-use project at the entrance of Soi Thong Lor in 2021.
Merit-making
Life, Pichaya Svasti, Published on 22/02/2018
» From Feb 16 to March 2, Khao Wong Phra Chan, Lop Buri province's highest mountain, will attract Buddhists and other visitors to climb to its peak and pay respects to a model of the Lord Buddha's footprint during the annual religious festival.
Politicians must ditch 'analogue consciences'
News, Wichit Chantanusornsiri, Published on 22/02/2018
» While the government has implemented projects to drive the Thai economy toward the digital era, the conscience of the powers-that-be and the rich remain outdated and trapped in the analogue era.
BMA blowing hot air about toxic city haze
News, Anchalee Kongrut, Published on 23/02/2018
» I had never believed air pollution can kill, until I spent a year living in Beijing. The year was 2013. Notably, it was a time the city was known for its "airpocalypse", a moniker used by foreign media to describe severe air pollution in China.
Life cycle
Guru, Eric E Surbano, Published on 23/02/2018
» Exercise is considered painful and off-putting for some people. In a city like Bangkok where stress can run high and traffic can eat away at your "me time", people find it hard to put a round in at the gym or are too tired at the end of the day. The cheap food all over the city doesn't help either. But Absolute Cycle is set to change your perspective on exercise with rhythm cycling, a fun and energising way to shed kilos. A special treat for Bangkokians is that Sunny Walters, a New York native who has instructed SoulCycle sessions in the US and has worked as a professional dancer for the likes of Britney Spears and Christina Aguilera, as well as appearing in the musical film The Greatest Showman, is serving as guest instructor for six months at Absolute Cycle. Guru asked her a few questions on rhythm cycling and what she's looking forward during her time in the City of Angels.
Volvo XC60 D4 Momentum (2018) review
Richard Leu, Published on 23/02/2018
» Volvo’s second-gen XC60 vies in a highly competitive sector and aims to underscore the brand’s latest hit features.
Road plan is off the rails
News, Published on 24/02/2018
» In its push to build a new expressway in parallel with the planned Brown Line monorail route in Bangkok, the government does not seem to have come up with a good business case beyond the need to make use of 281 abandoned pillars on the Kaset-Nawamin road -- ghosts from the 1990s. That is not a compelling enough reason.