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Bank of Thailand's next move
Business, EBC Financial Group, Published on 27/02/2025
» As Thailand enters 2025, the country's economic landscape remains shaped by a delicate balance of fiscal stimulus, monetary policy adjustments and shifting global market dynamics.
Rewrite your biological algorithm to future-proof your body
Miskawaan Health Group, Published on 12/02/2022
» These days, many are turning their backs on traditional medicine for a more integrative approach to their health. This global movement is called ‘Biohacking’, and far from being a temporary trend or fad, it is a progressive lifestyle choice that is designed to optimise bodies from the cellular core to defy the normal aging process and avoid undesirable natural processes our bodies are subjected to.
The road to e-commerce excellence
Business, Intrepid Group Asia, Published on 11/01/2022
» Thailand is on course to have the second-largest internet economy in Southeast Asia, with an expected value of US$53 billion by 2025, according to the "e-Conomy SEA 2021" report by Google, Temasek and Bain & Co.
Trading up
Asia focus, Asia Focus, Published on 10/01/2022
» Ravaged by the fallout from Covid-19, countries in Asia and the Pacific are hoping to revitalise their pandemic-hit economies as the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) takes effect to create the world's largest trade bloc.
A death knell to cyber attackers?
Cybersec Asia, Published on 03/01/2022
» Network communications encrypted using next-gen cryptography will be unbreakable, future-proof, and will allow for early intervention and mitigation.
Year of Turbulence
Asia focus, Asia Focus Team, Published on 27/12/2021
» Pandemic drags on recovery: In the early stages of the Covid-19 pandemic in 2020, many Asian countries had enviable success, avoiding large-scale outbreaks and mass deaths. But the arrival of the more transmissible Delta variant this year and sluggish vaccine rollouts compounded by low availability sent cases surging. Combined with poor monitoring and easy movement among countries, often unofficially, Southeast Asia became a virus hotspot. The ballooning health crisis collided with churning political discontent in the case of Myanmar, Thailand and Malaysia. Economically, the new wave of infections, and attendant restrictions imposed to curb the spread, stalled recoveries. After nearly two years of strict border controls, many countries started to loosen up and live with Covid. But the rise of the Omicron variant now threatens to scuttle those tentative reopening plans and usher in a third year of economic anxiety.
Your frontline produces the bottomline
Krit Leelalertumpai, Senior Consultant, PacRim Group, Published on 22/03/2021
» In rapidly changing markets, companies need agility and speed to stay relevant. This coupled with increasing business uncertainty and complexity has given CEOs a daunting task. Why? CEOs and top executives at the highest corporate level, while being bombarded with ever-growing demands from their stakeholders, feel "challenged and stressed" in executing their must win strategic initiatives.
Medical hub ambitions
Business, Oxford Business Group, Published on 14/05/2020
» As Thailand begins to gradually ease coronavirus-related restrictions, the government is looking to cement the country's position as an advanced medical hub in Asia.
Asia's century, China's year
Asia focus, Asia Focus team, Published on 30/12/2019
» Way back when 1999 was winding down, pundits were telling us that the Asian Century was about to dawn. That prediction has not yet been fully realised, but few would disagree that 2019 belonged to China. Over the past 12 months, the top headlines have been about the bruising trade war with America, defiant protests in Hong Kong against Beijing's tightening grip, and the rise of a surveillance state that is herding hundreds of thousands into "re-education" camps on its western fringes. Below, the Asia Focus team looks back on a busy and sometimes troubling 2019.
Has the minimum wage outlived its usefulness?
Thomas Payne, Principal, AAI-Assessment Asia Co., Ltd., Published on 27/08/2019
» The minimum wage was introduced to Thailand in the mid 1970's as a way to protect against basic labour being taken advantage of and provide a guaranteed minimum wage for all workers. However, it was never applied to "all workers". The International Labour Organisation (ILO) said that this was the "minimum sum payable to a worker for work performed or services rendered, within a given period, whether calculated on the basis of time or output, which may not be reduced either by individual or collective agreement, which is guaranteed by law and which may be fixed in such a way as to cater to the minimum needs of the worker and his/her family, in the light of national economic and social conditions".