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Thai tourism targets high-value Russian market, Yango Ads Q3 2025 Travel Analytics Report
Suchit Leesa-nguansuk , Published on 19/12/2025
» Thailand’s tourism sector needs to make a strategic and decisive pivot, moving beyond volume-based tourism to target the high-value Russian‑speaking market.
Major Thai workforce trends in 2025
Business, Published on 06/08/2025
» Employers in Thailand are adjusting their strategies and structures to cope with economic conditions, focusing on flexibility, compensation, and the use of AI and AI-related skills in recruitment, according to the online job platform Jobsdb by SEEK.
Reports: Gender equality in the workplace still falls short
Business, Sirinnaree Ongsakul, Published on 13/03/2023
» Despite years of promoting gender equality in the workplace and female empowerment among leaders and organisations worldwide, significant progress is lacking, according to recent studies.
Four-day work week gains converts
Bloomberg News, Published on 21/02/2023
» LONDON: The largest-ever trial of the four-day work week has found that most UK companies participating are not returning to the five-day standard, and a third are ready to make the change permanent.
Cabinet approves higher minimum wages for skilled workers
Post Reporters, Published on 31/01/2023
» The cabinet on Tuesday approved new minimum wages, ranging from 465 to 700 baht a day, for skilled workers in 17 occupations in three sectors, as proposed by the Labour Ministry.
Making Japan productive again
Asia focus, Koichi Hamada, Published on 11/04/2022
» When I was teaching at the University of Tokyo in the 1970s, my daily commute lasted three and a half hours. But, one day, it threatened to last twice as long: with labour strikes having shut down public transport, my only option was a much longer route using private trains and subways.
How to get more women working
Asia focus, Nareerat Wiriyapong, Published on 14/02/2022
» Shrinking populations are becoming a major demographic challenge for several countries. East Asia, in particular, has been seeing an alarming fall in fertility rates. The figure in Japan averaged just 1.31 from 2015 to 2020, but Taiwan (1.15) and South Korea (1.11) fared even worse.
Stemming the flow: How Thai companies can retain great employees
Noppamas Sivakriskul & Liesje Meijknecht, Published on 27/01/2022
» As the pandemic persists, businesses are struggling to retain their best employees. In Thailand, too, some are choosing to leave traditional employment. How can Thai companies reverse the flow of what many people are calling the “Great Attrition?”
Biden celebrates rare win with US infrastructure bill signing
AFP, Published on 16/11/2021
» WASHINGTON - Battered by critics and dire opinion polls, President Joe Biden signed into law the biggest US infrastructure revamp in more than half a century at a rare bipartisan celebration in the White House on Monday.
Women's work
Asia focus, Paritta Wangkiat, Published on 18/10/2021
» Amid wave after wave of Covid-19 in Japan, Mariko, a college lecturer and mother, has been working and raising her four-year-old daughter in an apartment shared by a family of four in Tokyo.