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Hedge funds option for rich
Business, Post Reporters, Published on 04/05/2017
» The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has permitted investment management companies to offer hedge funds to institutional and ultra-high net worth investors (UHNWs) to widen their investment alternatives and reinforce the potential of local fund management firms.
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For farmers, clothes do not make the man
News, Sirinya Wattanasukchai, Published on 04/05/2017
» As the rice farming season approaches, many Thai farmers have reason to worry. This time it's not about typical problems such as less predictable weather, rain volume or debts they find hard to pay off. It is the way they look.
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Women power the green economy
News, Published on 04/05/2017
» In Ghana, a group of enterprising women and young people is building bicycles out of an unlikely material: bamboo. Ten farmers grow the bamboo, and 25 builders craft it into environmentally friendly bikes that can be used on Ghana's bumpy roads or exported overseas. Bernice Dapaah, the founder and CEO of Ghana Bamboo Bikes, plans to build two new factories soon, adding 50 more workers in communities with high unemployment.
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Internet and e-commerce are hacking protectionism
News, Published on 04/05/2017
» The image of globalisation, imprinted on many minds, is of American factories fleeing to Mexico or China. But here's what globalisation really is: The voluntary, mutually consenting exchange of goods and services between a buyer in one country and a seller in another country.
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A strategic balance is best
News, Editorial, Published on 04/05/2017
» Needless to say, the phone call by US President Donald Trump to Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha caused a stir at the Thai Khu Fah building. The call, and also the invitation for Gen Prayut to make an official trip to Washington, signifies a thaw in relations frozen since the 2014 military putsch.
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Effective governance is key for growth in Asia-Pacific
News, Shamshad Akhtar, Published on 04/05/2017
» The Asia-Pacific region's high and steady economic growth has been an anchor of stability for the struggling world economy in recent years. Developing economies of the region now account for almost a third of global GDP, slightly less than the combined output of the developed economies of North America and Western Europe.
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Rotten apple in system
News, Postbag, Published on 04/05/2017
» Re: "Red Bull scion flees Bangkok with 2 days to spare".
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Laughing through the grieving process
Life, Amitha Amranand, Published on 04/05/2017
» Before the house opened on Saturday night, Culture Collective Studio founder Loni Berry told the audience that although the play we were about to see, David Lindsay-Abaire's Pulitzer Prize-winning Rabbit Hole, revolved around the death of a four-year-old boy, it was all right to laugh from time to time. And laugh we did.
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Call to rev up Pracha Rat shop opening
Business, Phusadee Arunmas, Published on 04/05/2017
» The government is pushing for the opening of 200 small-scale retail shops run by the National Village and Urban Community Fund Office under the Pracha Rat public-private collaborative scheme this year, aiming to raise the number to 10,000 shops over the next three years.
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Ministry ready for bigger stake in IBank
Business, Chatrudee Theparat, Published on 04/05/2017
» The Finance Ministry may need to hold more than a 49% stake in state-owned Islamic Bank of Thailand (IBank) if the bank fails to draw new partners, according to the bank's recapitalisation plan scheduled to go before the cabinet for approval in the next two weeks.
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