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Thailand Equestrian Ready for SEA Games After Landmark Success at FEI Asian Championships Pattaya
Published on 15/12/2025
» The FEI Asian Championships Pattaya 2025 concluded with outstanding success, further establishing Thailand as one of Asia’s leading equestrian centres. Held at B.Grimm Country Club, also known as Thai Polo & Equestrian Club Pattaya, and supported by B.Grimm together with official partners, the Championships brought together top riders from 13 nations across five major FEI disciplines: Dressage, Para-Dressage, Eventing, Endurance and Jumping.
Southeast Asia set to export surplus biofuels to Europe
Reuters, Published on 10/09/2025
» SINGAPORE — Southeast Asia is positioned to export biofuels to other markets such as Europe as production capacity exceeds demand in the region, a senior executive with Malaysian state oil and gas company Petronas said on Wednesday.
Indonesia to impose ‘selective’ VAT hike
Reuters, Published on 06/12/2024
» JAKARTA - Indonesian President Prabowo Subianto has agreed to raise value-added tax by one percentage point to 12% next year, but only on luxury goods, according to Sufmi Dasco Ahmad, the deputy speaker of parliament.
Investment giant Franklin Templeton explores Thailand expansion
Bloomberg News, Published on 23/01/2024
» HONG KONG - Franklin Templeton is weighing expansion in Thailand, seeking to lure local investors of offshore products as the asset manager strengthens its Asia operations.
Digital dividend
Asia focus, W Audi Pattarapatumthong, Published on 25/07/2022
» The digital economy is playing an ever-increasing role in business, trade and human capital development. As countries emerge from the pandemic and steer through new economic headwinds, digitisation is taking on even greater importance.
Advancing cautiously
Asia focus, Ismira Lutfia Tisnadibrata, Published on 27/06/2022
» Asian economies are bouncing back amid the so-called Great Reset triggered by the Covid-19 pandemic. But a cautious mood prevails given the possible short-term risks of new waves of the virus, rising inflation and political instability.
Food price solutions a priority
Asia focus, Nareerat Wiriyapong, Published on 02/05/2022
» Food prices are on the rise everywhere in the world. In Thailand, prices of limes have been at historical highs for months, now as much as 10 baht each in wet markets. Instant noodle makers want to hike their prices by up to 20% as raw material costs have surged, but Commerce Minister Jurin Laksanawisit insists they can't.
Saudi Arabia no 'gold mine'
News, Mongkol Bangprapa and Penchan Charoensuthipan, Published on 31/01/2022
» The thawing of three decades of frosty relations with Riyadh has lifted the hopes of job seekers and labour exporters eager to get back in the oil-rich kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
Moving to Nusantara
Asia focus, Ismira Lutfia Tisnadibrata, Published on 31/01/2022
» With the recent passage of the state capital bill into law, Indonesian President Joko Widodo is a step closer to cementing his ultimate infrastructure legacy.
US wants more oil, but OPEC+ can't pump much faster
Dmitry Zhdannikov and Ahmad Ghaddar of Reuters, Published on 23/11/2021
» LONDON: US pressure on OPEC+ to pump more oil and cool red-hot crude prices has shone a spotlight on a relatively new problem for the producer group: it doesn't have much extra capacity to hike output faster, even if it wanted to.