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JLL: Mainland firms flock to Bangkok
Business, Published on 20/04/2018
» While China's biggest corporations are increasingly flexing their global muscle as the country's economic and geopolitical influence accelerates, Bangkok is the 10th most popular destination for mainland firms expanding overseas, and ranks third in terms of the volume of Chinese corporate leasing activity over the last three years, according to "China12: China's Cities Go Global", a new report from real estate consulting firm JLL.
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What a pragmatist can hope for in talks with Kim
News, Tyler Cowen, Published on 20/04/2018
» It's been confirmed that CIA director Mike Pompeo held direct talks with Kim Jong-un in North Korea, and negotiations between Mr Kim and US President Donald Trump really do seem in the offing, so we need to ask how such negotiations might actually succeed.
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B10 biodiesel pushed as antidote to palm oil surplus
Business, Yuthana Praiwan, Published on 20/04/2018
» The Thai Biodiesel Producer Association (TBPA) has called for energy policymakers to accelerate their enforcement of rules pertaining to the production and use of B10 biodiesel in a bid to absorb the current surplus of palm oil in national stocks.
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Europe needs to step up to plug leadership deficit
News, Published on 20/04/2018
» For all the concern over trade flows and balances nowadays, the largest deficit the world must confront is one of leadership. With the United States retreating from its global role, someone needs to step up. But who?
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Syria strike leaves murky aftermath
News, Peter Apps, Published on 20/04/2018
» The US-led strikes on Syria may be over, at least for now, but the war that produced them -- as well as the wider international confrontations that fuelled it -- is only getting more complex.
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Bangkok business travel cost up
Business, Published on 20/04/2018
» Bangkok has breached the top 50 most expensive locations in Asia for business travel for the first time, according to a survey from human resources firm ECA International.
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Humanity forgotten
News, Postbag, Published on 20/04/2018
» Kuldeep Nagi, with the sentiments in his letter, "Let them live", (PostBag, April 18), is yet another person trying to preach perfection in a rather very imperfect world.
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Guilt and sin minus the politics
Life, Kong Rithdee, Published on 20/04/2018
» The squalor of Manila slums populated by high-school drug runners, then a chaotic precinct ruled by corrupt cops and even more corrupt chiefs -- these are the familiar turfs of Brillante Mendoza, the best-known Filipino filmmaker among international audiences.
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Abu Dhabi's Warner Bros indoor amusement park to open in July
Business, Published on 20/04/2018
» ABU DHABI, United Arab Emirates: Abu Dhabi will open a US$1 billion indoor Warner Bros amusement park this July, the latest offering in a crowded market in the United Arab Emirates where one marquee park already faces serious financial problems.
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Where to find Bangkok's best street food ...
Life, Published on 20/04/2018
» It was a few minutes after 6pm, and Lim Lao Sa, a fishball noodle stand tucked into an alleyway near the Chao Phraya River in Bangkok, had just opened. Rain was falling, hard. A series of deftly arranged tarps sheltered patrons sitting on red plastic stools at a handful of tables. Water drizzled off the tarp edges, down the concrete walls and past exposed wiring. Fluorescent bulbs cast harsh shadows. Lim Lao Sa's owners -- a brother and sister who had inherited the 60-year-old business from their father -- bickered vigorously.
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