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Breaking the family business curse
Business, Nuntawun Polkuamdee, Published on 01/11/2025
» They build, they grow, then they fall. The familiar cycle of family businesses has echoed across continents for centuries. In Thailand, where family-run conglomerates dominate the economy, the question remains whether they can they break the third-generation curse?
Trump seeks 'fair deal' with China but pathway unclear
AFP, Published on 24/04/2025
» WASHINGTON — United States President Donald Trump on Wednesday played up prospects of a "fair deal" on trade with China, but his top officials offered few details of how Washington might de-escalate its damaging tariff war with Beijing.
Indonesia on value-adding crusade
Bloomberg News, Published on 25/02/2023
» The value of Indonesia’s nickel exports surged tenfold in five years after it forced buyers to set up refineries in the country. Now Southeast Asia’s biggest economy plans to use that blueprint to vault nto the ranks of higher-income economies by processing everything from copper to fish.
Managing software supply chain risk
Business, Taylor Armerding, Published on 03/08/2022
» The software supply chain is both a blessing and a curse. It's an amazing, labyrinthine and complex network of components that, when it works as designed and intended, delivers the magical conveniences of modern life: information and connections from around the world plus unlimited music, videos and other entertainment, all in our pockets. Vehicles with lane assist and accident avoidance. Home security systems. Smart traffic systems. And on and on.
Transformation through travel
Business, Vijay Verghese, Published on 08/07/2022
» What could Venice, Mumbai, the Maldives and the Great Barrier Reef possibly have in common? Two are magnificent repositories of centuries-old cultures and bustling commerce. The other two offer a spectacle of sugar-white beaches, framed by the enticing blues of froth-fringed coral reefs.
The paradoxes of the Bangladesh miracle
Asia focus, Arvind Subramanian, Published on 28/06/2021
» Ravaged periodically by natural calamities, long dependent on foreign aid and remittances, and a perennial source of refugees and emigrants, Bangladesh was once "a basket case of misery", as Zia Haider Rahman put it in his great debut novel, In the Light of What We Know.
American duo win Nobel in economics
Business, Reuters, Published on 13/10/2020
» STOCKHOLM: US academics Paul Milgrom and Robert Wilson won the 2020 Nobel prize in economics on Monday for work on auctions hailed as benefiting buyers and sellers around the world of everything from fishing quotas to aircraft landing slots.
Paving the way to digital ID
Business, Suchit Leesa-nguansuk, Komsan Tortermvasana & Somruedi Banchongduang, Published on 24/09/2018
» Although it could be a boon for Thailand's digital transformation, a draft law allowing government agencies to collect citizens' digital ID has provoked concerns over data security and personal privacy, suggesting the act may be more of a curse than a blessing.