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How to give your résumé a 2026 makeover
Business, Tom Sorensen, Published on 17/02/2026
» You are wrong if you think your CV/résumé is intended to get you a job. It's not.
Rethinking global health finance
Oped, Walter O Ochieng & Tom Achoki, Published on 06/02/2026
» For the past half-century, the economics of global health were straightforward. Under the so-called "grant-based" approach, rich countries donate to poor countries, which use the funds to meet their populations' health needs. Success was measured by services provided or lives saved, rather than by balance sheets. While this model was far from perfect, the latest approach replacing it -- focused on using tools like guarantees and blended finance to crowd in private capital -- threatens to produce even worse outcomes.
Southeast Asia receives broad support
Business, Maybank Securities (Thailand), Published on 27/12/2025
» Southeast Asian equities ended December with a cautious "risk-on" tone, helped by a softer US dollar and year-end rebalancing, though thin Christmas liquidity exaggerated intra-day swings.
Sentiment improving, but watch for political risk
Business, Maybank Securities Thailand, Published on 06/12/2025
» Global stock markets have rebounded as the market predicts an 80% likelihood the US Federal Reserve will cut interest rates at its Dec 9-10 meeting, up from less than 40% earlier.
Easing tensions bolster outlook
Business, Maybank Securities Thailand, Published on 01/11/2025
» Global investor sentiment has improved following an easing of US-China trade tensions after talks on Wednesday between presidents Donald Trump and Xi Jinping. The 10% reduction of the "fentanyl tariff" on Chinese goods is good news for Beijing as well as US consumers.
Global, regional outlooks rise in October
Business, Maybank Securities Thailand, Published on 04/10/2025
» Global Market: We expect the global equity market will perform well in October due to the resumption of the US Federal Reserve rate-cutting cycle (twice this year and once each in 2026 and 2027), the easing of trade war concerns, lower geopolitical risks and a global economic recovery.
Tariffs shift Thai business priorities
Business, Sathit Talaengsatya, economist at UOB Thailand, Published on 29/08/2025
» A wide range of Thai industries face significant challenges from US tariffs, with prolonged economic impacts unfolding gradually.
Dear DOGE, it's high time to tear down those dams!
News, Tom Zoellner, Published on 12/07/2025
» No big government infrastructure project made an imprint on the landscape and economy of the West more than the US Bureau of Reclamation's 20th century dam-building spree, which peppered 490 dams across the country, created an agricultural civilisation dependent on federal hydrology civil engineering, and brought about a welter of environmental difficulties after drying up dozens of once-healthy rivers.
China ramps up global yuan push
News, Samuel Shen & Tom Westbrook, Published on 03/05/2025
» As Chinese President Xi Jinping toured Southeast Asia last month to forge closer ties against higher US tariffs, the People's Bank of China (PBOC) was seizing a moment of confusion and disruption in global trade to promote greater usage of the yuan.
Inside rightist YouTube world embraced by Yoon
News, Ju-min Park and Tom Bateman, Published on 17/12/2024
» When South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol cited claims of election hacking and "anti-state" pro-North Korean sympathisers as justification for imposing a short-lived martial law, right-wing YouTuber Ko Sung-kook had heard it before.