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Land zoning, price uptick hit investment
Business, Lamonphet Apisitniran, Published on 26/02/2025
» Disputes over industrial land zoning in the Eastern Economic Corridor (EEC) and a resulting price uptick could discourage foreign companies from investing in Thailand, says the Industrial Estate Authority of Thailand (IEAT).
Bank of Thailand cuts interest rate to 2%
Online Reporters and News Agencies, Published on 26/02/2025
» The Bank of Thailand cut its key interest rate by a quarter point on Wednesday amid government calls for further easing to support the economy and weaken the baht to boost exports.
Power pacts key to luring investment
Business, Yuthana Praiwan, Published on 26/02/2025
» Energy policymakers must speed up piloting direct power purchase agreements (PPAs), enabling power companies to directly sell renewable electricity to factories in the Eastern Economic Corridor (EEC) to improve competitiveness with neighbouring countries and lure foreign investment, says the Thai Renewable Energy Association.
NSTDA gets set for 20th annual gathering
Business, Suchit Leesa-nguansuk, Published on 26/02/2025
» The National Science and Technology Development Agency (NSTDA) vows to focus its research on artificial intelligence (AI), genomics medicine and green energy to serve industry and drive the country's competitiveness.
Russian strikes kill five in eastern Ukraine
AFP, Published on 26/02/2025
» KYIV - Ukraine said on Wednesday that Russian strikes on a front-line town in the east of the country killed at least five people and wounded eight more, just hours after a fatal drone attack near Kyiv.
Seacon banks on civil servants
Kanana Katharangsiporn, Published on 26/02/2025
» Homebuilder Seacon continues to target civil servants amid the economic slowdown, aiming to achieve 1.69 billion baht in sales this year, growth of 12% yet less than its peak of 2 billion baht.
The post-Covid fiscal tightrope
Oped, Hoe Ee Khor, Rolf Strauch & Carlos Giraldo, Published on 26/02/2025
» As economies worldwide start to emerge from the inflation-fueled cost-of-living crisis that followed the Covid-19 pandemic, fiscal policymakers are confronting a sobering reality: they are not out of the woods yet.
OpenAI's search for profit is a risk
Life, James Hein, Published on 26/02/2025
» Is Sam Altman potentially the most dangerous person on the planet? An interesting question. Sam Altman is the CEO of OpenAI, the company that made the AI that everyone knows as ChatGPT. The original aim of OpenAI back in the day, when Elon Musk was involved, was a fully open-source product that would be scrutinised and controlled by the wider population. In contrast, the focus of Altman appears to be money. OpenAI is currently looking for an injection of funds to make it a fully commercial enterprise. When that is the focus, safety is a secondary consideration and you can end up with Skynet. The current estimate for GAI or AGI (artificial general intelligence) is as soon as next year, but perhaps two to three. Readers will know my opinion on these estimates. So OpenAI may just as well now be called ClosedAI because it's all about the potential income and is really one of the potentially dangerous AI platforms available today.
CDU won the German polls, but can it rule?
Oped, John J. Metzler, Published on 26/02/2025
» Another major country has flipped politically to the conservative column. After three years of a drifting centre-left coalition government, voters elected a conservative (small c) Christian Democratic Union CDU government in Germany's parliamentary elections. Yet what was expected to be a massive win for the likely new Chancellor, Friedrich Merz, became a bit disappointing when his party gained 28.5% of the vote.
Trump plans ‘gold card’ visa for ‘high level people’
The New York Times, Published on 26/02/2025
» US President Donald Trump has previewed plans for a new visa programme he is calling the gold card, describing it as “somewhat like a green card, but at a higher level of sophistication”.