Asean Morning News Compiled by Sreypov Men @MenSreypov Southeast Asia’s strongmen are looking forward to elections in 2018 Voters in Cambodia, Thailand, and Malaysia are all expected to go to the polls this year. […]
Even Record Tourism Hasn’t Boosted Thai Airlines Record tourist arrivals to Thailand that buoyed shares of hotels and the nation’s airports operator haven’t boosted the country’s four listed carriers. Investors eyeing the laggard airline stocks, […]
Asean Morning News Compiled by Sreypov Men @MenSreypov US revamps travel warning system, ranks countries The United States unveiled a way to warn its citizens about the dangers of foreign travel on Wednesday (Jan […]
Somkid bullish on continual economic growth for 2018 Thailand’s economic growth for 2017 is now believed to be over 4%, reflecting significant improvement that the government has made in its effort to drive economy. — […]
Asean Morning News Compiled by Sreypov Men @MenSreypov Mekong leaders fail to raise environmental concerns at summit in Phnom Penh ENVIRONMENTAL conservationists expressed concern over the negative impact of development projects in the Mekong […]
Additional B150bn to swell deficit The government plans to compile a supplementary budget of 150 billion baht for this fiscal year, a move requiring it to borrow an additional 100 billion baht and bring the […]
Asean Morning News Compiled by Sreypov Men @MenSreypov ASEAN economies ill-prepared for old age The demographic dividend that helped drive ASEAN’s strong economic growth from at least the 1990s is coming to an end. […]
Thai baht to remain strong in first quarter The Thai baht is likely to remain strong for the duration of the first quarter as investors have grown confident of the country’s economic performance as well […]
Asean Morning News Compiled by Sreypov Men @MenSreypov Southeast Asian Giants Team Up to Resist IS Southeast Asia’s two biggest countries, the Philippines and Indonesia, are joining forces to stop Islamic State sympathizers from […]
SCB Economic Intelligence Center forecasts 4% GDP growth this year The Siam Commercial Bank Economic Intelligence Center (EIC) has forecast that continued economic growth in Thailand and global economic recovery will lead to 4% growth […]
Asean Morning News Compiled by Sreypov Men @MenSreypov Australia must embrace ASEAN, but we’ve got listening to do Australia must move beyond our obsession with the US versus China debate and to once again […]
New minimum wage will affect SMEs As the government is going to increase minimum wage, at least 15 baht higher, as New Year’s gifts for workers and to become effective end of this month, concern […]