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WVO lottery 'must give quota answers'
News, Jutamas Tadthiemrom, Published on 05/11/2025
» The War Veterans Organisation (WVO) must issue clear details on how its lottery quotas are managed and explain why some veterans do not have quotas to sell tickets, Flying Officer Tanadej Pengsuk, a People's Party MP, said this week in his capacity as a member of the House Committee on the Armed Forces.
Tariffs force petrochem contraction
News, Ron Bousso, Published on 30/08/2025
» US President Donald Trump's trade wars are nudging the global plastics industry towards a painful but necessary restructuring to address acute overcapacity that has kept the industry's profits in a prolonged slump.
A difference of opinion
News, Published on 16/08/2025
» When the moment of truth came -- that Thailand had been slapped with a 19% tariff by the US, down from the originally threatened 36% -- several implications for the government were spelt out by experts, both positive and cautionary.
Rethinking what it means to be human
News, Peerasit Kamnuansilpa, Published on 05/07/2025
» In the decades ahead, Thailand will not collapse in a blaze of war, disease, or climate catastrophe. Rather, it will quietly wither from within. The twin forces of demographic decline and digital automation are converging with astonishing speed, and yet our political and moral imaginations remain unprepared.
Trump is not entirely wrong about China
News, Yi Fuxian, Published on 31/05/2025
» President Donald Trump's embrace of tariffs has been met with criticism, and for sound reasons. But Mr Trump's diagnosis of the global trading system -- and, specifically, its impact on US manufacturing -- may not be entirely wrong. The problem, instead, is the treatment: rather than using a chainsaw, which would probably kill the patient, he should reach for a scalpel.
Big Oil sails on amid storm threat
News, Ron Bousso, Published on 07/05/2025
» Top oil and gas companies are watching the worsening global economic outlook with trepidation, but they currently appear to be doing little to correct course in the face of the approaching storm. The level of uncertainty in global energy markets has shot up in recent months due to US President Donald Trump's tariff flip-flops, stop-start negotiations over the Ukraine conflict, tightening sanctions on Iran, and growing signs of disagreement among Opec and other major producers.
SET to use circuit breakers if stocks plunge
News, Nuntawun Polkuamdee, Published on 10/04/2025
» The Stock Exchange of Thailand (SET) says it is monitoring the escalating trade war and stands ready to deploy circuit breakers should the situation worsen.
Low-cost homes to be built on State Railway land
News, Published on 08/03/2025
» The State Railway of Thailand (SRT) board has agreed to lease four plots of land to SRT Asset (SRTA) and authorised the subsidiary to invest 5 billion baht in real estate development under the government's "Home for Thais" low-cost housing project, said Deputy SRT Governor Anan Phonimdang.
Don't expect the 'Korea discount' to disappear
News, Manishi Raychaudhuri, Published on 19/12/2024
» South Korea has recently been in the news for all the wrong reasons, with a brief spell of martial law, continuing political uncertainty and market ructions. But the sharp underperformance of the country's equity market long predates the turmoil involving recently impeached President Yoon Suk-yeol. The deep-rooted problems suggest the so-called "Korea discount" is unlikely to budge even after political calm has been restored.
Investors cry foul at 'clean energy scam'
News, Post Reporters, Published on 01/11/2024
» A group of 20 people yesterday petitioned the Economic Crime Suppression Division (ECD) of the police's Central Investigation Bureau against a company they said deceived them into investing in a non-existent clean energy business.