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HK's billionaire debt kings are losing their mojo
News, Shuli Ren, Published on 27/09/2023
» The tide is turning for Hong Kong's tycoon families. All of a sudden, the younger generation has to work a lot harder to convince banks and investors that their money is safe, and their pet projects are savvy.
What's it all about?
News, Published on 23/05/2022
» Re: "Job vacancy: Must be good at promises", (PostScript, May 15).
Job vacancy: Must be good at promises
News, Roger Crutchley, Published on 15/05/2022
» This time next week the good citizens of Bangkok will be choosing the person daft enough to want to be the next governor of the angelic metropolis known as Krungthep. Amazingly there are 31 otherwise perfectly sensible, intelligent people prepared to take on this thankless task.
Breaking down the global supply chain breakdown
Oped, Christopher S Tang, Published on 30/11/2021
» Rescuing Christmas from the supply-chain Grinch won't be easy. To make it happen, policymakers and business leaders need to take an expansive approach, paying attention to logistics beyond our clogged-up harbours.
Vaccine foolery
Oped, Postbag, Published on 15/01/2021
» Re: "Questions over Chinese vaccine", (BP, 14 Jan). I've maintained for a long time that the reason the Thai government preferred the SinoVac Biotec Chinese vaccine was that it came cheaper than the Western vaccines. Malaysia is now also questioning the effectiveness.
Arrests not enough to reform Thai Sangha
News, Khemthong Tonsakulrungruang, Published on 31/05/2018
» The early morning of May 24 was the morning of the long knives for the Thai Sangha. Commandos stormed Wat Or Noi in Nakhon Pathom to arrest the abbot, then Phra Buddha Isara, a staunch supporter of the National Council for Peace and Order (NCPO). In an unrelated case, five of seven other senior monks accused of embezzlement and money laundering were arrested from three famous temples in Bangkok. The other two remain on the run.