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A Cash-Strapped Corner of China Finds a Financial Tonic--Hard Liquor
Business, Chong Koh Ping, Published on 10/08/2021
» China's biggest liquor company, a favorite of international investors, has become a financial lifeline for the underdeveloped southern region where it is based.
NYSE to Delist Chinese Telecom Carriers After Rejecting Appeals
Business, Chong Koh Ping & Alexander Osipovich, Published on 10/05/2021
» China's big three telecom carriers lost their appeals against being kicked off the New York Stock Exchange, which moved to delist them to comply with an investment ban introduced by former President Donald Trump.
Shipping containers plunge overboard as supply race raises risks
By Ann Koh of Bloomberg News, Published on 27/04/2021
» SINGAPORE: Containers piled high on giant vessels carrying everything from car tyres to smartphones are toppling over at an alarming rate, sending millions of dollars of cargo sinking to the bottom of the ocean as pressure to speed deliveries raises the risk of safety errors.
Taking a Thai company public
Business, Calvin Wilkinson, Published on 05/01/2019
» Some financial commentators have written 2018 off as a disappointment. Among other things, they lament the lower number of initial public offerings (IPOs) compared with 2017, and an annual drop of 190 points, or 10.8%, in the SET index.
Exercising control over a Thai company
Business, Calvin Wilkinson, Published on 17/12/2018
» The private limited company is still a relatively new concept in Thailand; the earliest laws dealing with companies were only passed in 1900, and one of the first corporations in Thailand, Siam Commercial Bank, was only formally established in 1906. Prior to this, businesses were usually organised as family partnerships that lacked any formal legal personality.
Guillotine is ready, but is the executioner?
Business, Calvin Wilkinson, Published on 13/12/2018
» Before the blood dries from the first phase of Thailand's "regulatory guillotine" project, which has been credited with raising the country's World Bank Doing Business ranking from 48th in 2017 to 26th in 2018, the government is already looking to begin its second phase.
Retirement severance needs fine-tuning
Business, Calvin Wilkinson, Published on 18/10/2018
» You don't need to be a demographer to know that the Thai community is rapidly ageing. When the current generation entering the workforce now moves through to retirement, there will be more than twice as many Thais aged 65 years or older as there are today. And they will be relying upon the people in the workforce, their children, to provide the standard of living in retirement many have come to expect, except that there will be more than twice as many of them.