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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.
Funerals go green
Business, Somhatai Mosika, Published on 08/09/2025
» At a funeral, the atmosphere is often filled with grief and remembrance, and many choose to honour the deceased with condolence wreaths. Traditionally these wreaths end up in landfills, contributing to waste.
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.
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.
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.
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.
'Mushroom coffin' helps bodies decompose faster
Business, AFP, Published on 18/09/2020
» In the Netherlands you can keep helping the planet after you die -- by opting for a living coffin made of mushrooms which speeds up the decomposition of your body.
Shift to SSF among challenges looming
Business, Tisco Securities, Published on 14/12/2019
» As we shift our focus to three investment themes for 2020 -- wealth transfer, tourism and energy -- we have lowered our SET earnings per share (EPS) forecast to 92 baht this year and 104 baht in 2020. We have also lowered our 2019 year-end SET target from 1,740 points to 1,580, and the 2020 year-end target to 1,640 to account for lower EPS and forward price/earnings (P/E) ratio.