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Panel defends changes to airport high-speed rail deal
News, Post Reporters, Published on 02/12/2025
» The Eastern Economic Corridor Policy Committee has defended its plan to amend the contract for the high-speed rail project connecting Don Mueang, Suvarnabhumi, and U-tapao airports, saying the move is critical to keep the flagship infrastructure project alive amid shifting economic realities.
Tackling Asean grid's $800bn challenge
News, Rapeepat Ingkasit, Published on 22/11/2025
» Every energy planner must balance the "trilemma" of security, equity, and environmental sustainability.
Agenda for tackling debt crisis
News, Martín Guzmán & Mahmoud Mohieldin & Vera Songwe, Published on 23/08/2025
» Following the Fourth International Conference on Financing for Development in June, we reached a breakthrough moment. Governments, international financial institutions, and civil-society organisations, recognising the need to tackle today's debt and development crises, are ready for action ahead of the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) in September.
Global banking rules need review
News, Vera Songwe & Jendayi Frazer & Peter Blair Henry, Published on 29/07/2025
» In an era of shrinking resources for development finance, global policymakers must shift their focus to making better use of existing funds. Identifying and removing regulatory barriers that hinder the efficient deployment of capital to emerging markets and developing economies (EMDEs) is a good place to start.
Tourist police bust 3 behind Vietnamese loan ring
News, Wassayos Ngamkham, Published on 26/07/2025
» The Tourist Police Bureau has arrested three Vietnamese nationals for operating an illegal loan shark scheme in Bangkok, charging fellow Vietnamese borrowers interest rates as high as 45%.
Shape of new climate politics emerges
News, Sam Geall, Published on 07/06/2025
» Only a few months ago, a headline like "United States sets tariffs of up to 3,521% on solar panels from Southeast Asia" could have been dismissed as satire. Today, it's nothing special, one of many published amid an uninterrupted fusillade accompanying Donald Trump's first 100 days in power. Yet it's also part of something bigger, as axes of economic power shift, technological changes surge, and popular sentiments reconfigure and metastasise. Amid that fracturing world order, how should we consider the climate crisis?
Energy strategy pivot wins 'overwhelming support'
News, Alastair Marsh, Published on 21/04/2025
» Most banks in the industry's biggest climate alliance endorsed a proposal that will refocus the group on providing financial support for the energy transition and also hold signatories to a less stringent standard for reducing the emissions enabled by their lending.
Govt mulls buying underperforming NPLs
News, Somruedi Banchongduang, Published on 24/03/2025
» The government has announced plans to purchase non-performing loans (NPLs) with outstanding balances below 100,000 baht to alleviate financial burdens on small-scale debtors.
AI will force tech investors to become macro aware
News, Taosha Wang, Published on 22/11/2024
» Tech investors are facing a new form of disruption. This investment cohort has historically paid little attention to macroeconomics, as ever-improving product features and innovative growth strategies have driven investment returns in high tech far more than things like aggregate growth and inflation.
'No restrictions' on handouts
News, Mongkol Bangprapa & Wassayos Ngamkham, Published on 27/09/2024
» Recipients of the 10,000-baht handout can spend the money on anything they see fit, including paying off their debts, according to Deputy Prime Minister Phumtham Wechayachai.