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Migrant crisis hits sugarcane fields
News, Juan Jocom, Published on 02/09/2025
» The air in Khlong Hat district, Sa Kaeo province, feels light. Rows of neatly planted sugarcane form a backdrop of a quieter, simpler life.
A drag journey
Life, Juan Jocom, Published on 04/08/2025
» Still in full glam after a pink carpet event in Los Angeles, RuPaul's Drag Race's Sarawut Chuchote's first words on the red carpet were of gratitude.
Asia's consumer tipping point
Oped, Juan Caballero & Wolfgang Fengler, Published on 17/09/2024
» With market turmoil recently capturing headlines, it is easy to lose sight of the long-term forces which have been shaping Asia's development. While Asian markets, especially the Nikkei, experienced sharp losses in recent weeks, a positive tipping point has been reached as well: for the first time ever, over half of Asia's 4.8 billion people are part of the global consumer class, defined by the World Data Lab as those spending more than US$12 (400 baht) per day in purchasing power parity prices.
Mexico Set to Become World's Largest Legal Cannabis Market
Business, Juan Montes, Published on 31/12/2020
» Mexico is home to the world's most powerful drug cartels, who have terrorized the country for years. But the country is poised to try something different in tackling the gangs by legalizing at least one of their products: marijuana.
How oil and gas firms can thrive in a smaller profit pool
Business, Juan Carlos Gay, Dale Hardcastle & Sharad Apte, Published on 22/06/2018
» Buoyancy has returned to the oil and gas industry as prices stabilise in the range of US$50 to $70 per barrel. Capital spending is rebounding and new upstream projects are being launched weekly. In previous cycles, this is about the point where executives forgot the hard-won lessons of the downturn and began to spend again, pursing growth at the cost of efficiency.