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Tourism still a stalled engine
Business, Molpasorn Shoowong, Published on 29/12/2025
» In 2025, the Thai tourism industry faced its first contraction since the pandemic, with several setbacks consistently hampering tourist confidence.
Tourism revival goes into reverse
Business, Narumon Kasemsuk, Published on 21/07/2025
» Over the past three years, Thai tourism has been struggling to regain the peak it once reached prior to the pandemic, while neighbouring countries Malaysia and Vietnam have already surpassed their performance in 2019, recording 37 million and 17 million tourist arrivals, respectively.
Bitcoin leaps to record high of $75,000 as traders lean towards Trump victory
Reuters, Published on 06/11/2024
» SINGAPORE - Bitcoin surged to a record high in Asian trade as investors leaned towards Donald Trump winning the United States presidential election.
Private sector opposes wage hike
Business, Post Reporters, Published on 04/05/2022
» A proposal by labour advocacy groups to increase the daily minimum wage to 492 baht is drawing stiff opposition from entrepreneurs who fear the hike in a volatile economy will deal a blow to businesses.
Oil, war, pandemic: Economic costs mount
Business, Narumon Kasemsuk, Suchit Leesa-nguansuk and Yuthana Praiwan, Published on 14/03/2022
» The Russian invasion of Ukraine is sending economic shockwaves around the globe with crude oil prices at one point reaching US$130 per barrel, hitting businesses already reeling from tepid consumption caused by the Covid-19 pandemic.
Oil spill the last straw for Rayong tourism
News Agencies and Online Reporters, Published on 29/01/2022
» Oil washing up on Mae Ramphueng beach in Rayong could be the “nail in the coffin” for hotels and restaurants already brought low by the pandemic, local hospitality business operators said on Saturday.
The End of Car Keys, Passwords and Fumbling With Your Phone at Checkout
Business, Christopher Mims, Published on 10/01/2022
» For all the attention on tech companies and location tracking in recent years, our gadgets are actually surprisingly bad at knowing precisely where they are at any given moment. That's about to change.
Founder of first low-cost airline in Thailand dies
Online Reporters, Published on 17/01/2021
» Udom Tantiprasongchai, best known for founding the first low-cost airline in Thailand, has died at 66.
Sales of tiny apartments soar in HK
Business, Bloomberg, Published on 05/01/2021
» In the world's least affordable housing market, one in eight homes sold is a nano apartment, a term widely used to describe tiny homes in Hong Kong.
Travel industry faces ‘nail in coffin’ after new outbreak
Bloomberg, Published on 22/12/2020
» As Phuket and other tourist destinations prepare for a slight bump in business from the countdown to 2021, a new virus outbreak among seafood factory workers in Samut Sakhon couldn’t come at a worse time.