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Leaders make dive into political scrum
Business, Suchit Leesa-nguansuk, Published on 19/12/2025
» A wave of tech pioneers have jumped into politics as political parties look to leverage their technology policies to woo voters in the upcoming election.
Bored? You're one thought away from an idea
Business, Detlef Reis, Published on 14/10/2022
» 'I am convinced that boredom is one of the greatest tortures. If I were to imagine Hell, it would be the place where you were continually bored," said the German social psychologist Erich Fromm.
Healthcare stocks lead the way
Business, Nuntawun Polkuamdee, Published on 06/06/2022
» Investing in stocks and assets with high pricing power and long-term growth potential has traditionally been a good way to capture gains and stay ahead in an inflationary environment.
Human capital and the innovation economy
Business, Detlef Reis, Published on 09/06/2021
» In an article published in the Bangkok Post in February, I explored how people management has changed in lockstep with humanity's economic evolution from a hunter-gatherer society through the agricultural and industrial ages into the knowledge and information age. Today, let's discuss how successful people management in the innovation economy requires a new perspective on how to best manage people: human capital.
Regulator struggles with shifting sands
Business, Darana Chudsri and Srisamorn Phoosuphanusorn, Published on 20/03/2021
» For the entirety of its 29 years in existence, Thailand's Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has been haunted by the label paper tiger, lacking the authority to actually enforce the rules it writes regarding capital markets, stocks and digital assets.
How people management evolved
Business, Detlef Reis, Published on 17/02/2021
» After starting as hunters and gatherers, humanity has evolved from the agricultural age (starting around 10,000 BC) and the industrial age (250 years ago) to the knowledge age (50 years ago). During the past decade, we have jumped up a further level into the innovation age.
Principal Capital to expand portfolio
Business, Kanana Katharangsiporn, Published on 27/01/2021
» Principal Capital Plc, an operator of a private hospital network, plans to divest three commercial properties worth 6 billion baht to add six new hospitals to its portfolio and 100 chain clinics nationwide as well as develop five "self-reliance" elderly care facilities in Greater Bangkok by 2023.
Covid-19 Propelled Businesses Into the Future. Ready or Not.
Business, Greg Ip, Published on 28/12/2020
» For many who crossed the digital divide this year, there will be no going back.
NSTDA highlights promising advances
Business, Suchit Leesa-nguansuk, Published on 07/12/2020
» Covid-19 vaccines, rejuvenating drugs, Internet of Health Things (IoHT), vision communication and environmentally-friendly materials are among major technologies that could affect public and business sectors in the years to come, says the National Science Technology Development Agency (NSTDA).
Advanced states of human creativity (Part 2)
Business, Detlef Reis, Published on 06/11/2020
» 'The mind is like an iceberg, it floats with one-seventh of its bulk above water," said the Austrian psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud. In the first part of this two-article series on Wednesday, I shared with you how the three parts of the human mind -- the conscious, unconscious and collective unconscious -- relate to the three states of creativity: conscious, subconscious and superconscious.