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When Harris calls Trump out, do voters listen?
News, Francis Wilkinson, Published on 25/07/2024
» Kamala Harris visited her campaign headquarters on Monday and delivered a key message.
Credit ratings and climate chaos
Oped, Emily Wilkinson & Kanni Wignaraja, Published on 13/12/2023
» The sun-drenched coral islands and reefs of the Maldives are in existential danger. With 80% of the country's population living just one metre above sea level, many islands could become uninhabitable as climate change causes the ocean's level to rise. By the end of this century, half a million people could be displaced. The Maldives is confronting this threat with a range of innovative adaptation initiatives, from restoring coral reefs to floating solar-power systems. But survival does not come cheap.
Why gun violence has become a major US export
News, Francis Wilkinson, Published on 15/08/2023
» It's hard to think of a greater perversion of this country's national interest or a more morally grotesque public policy than the murderous chain of corruption in Guatemala that is facilitated by the US Department of Commerce, detailed in a Bloomberg News report.
What Does Inflation Mean for U.S. Businesses? For Some, Bigger Profits
Business, Theo Francis & Kristin Broughton, Published on 16/11/2021
» Companies are paying higher wages, spending more for materials and absorbing record freight costs, pushing up economic inflation gauges. They are also reporting some of their best profitability in years.
Pandemics and political performance
Oped, Francis Fukuyama & Luis Felipe Lopez-Calva, Published on 01/07/2021
» The Covid-19 pandemic has created a laboratory for testing different governance systems in the face of a public-health crisis, ultimately revealing massive variance in country performance. For example, countries in East Asia -- China, Taiwan, South Korea, and Japan, tended to do a better job of controlling the pandemic than did many countries in the Americas and Europe.
Cash Remains King as Companies Close a Dismal Second Quarter
Business, Thomas Gryta & Theo Francis, Published on 23/06/2020
» Giant companies from McDonald's Corp. to Intel Corp. are husbanding cash, cutting costs and tapping debt, all moves that bolster their resilience amid persistent uncertainty wrought by the new coronavirus.
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.