Combating Hardship in Rural Thailand
Watch Video | Listen to the Audio JEFFREY BROWN: Next tonight, narrowing the gap between urban and rural dwellers that exists even in a relatively prosperous country such as Thailand. Special correspondent Fred de Sam Lazaro reports on one social entrepreneur's project in that Southeast Asian nation. A version of this segment aired on the PBS program "Religion and Ethics Newsweekly." FRED DE SAM ...
Q1 exports to Thailand soar | Business | The Phnom Penh Post - Cambodia's Newspaper of Record
Cambodia's exports to Thailand jumped 55 per cent year on year in the first quarter of 2012 on what experts and officials said was a smoother political relationship between the countries, as well as an easing of Thai border regulations.
ECOP-Cebu Urges Gov’t To Address High Cost Of Power, Production
CEBU CITY, Cebu - For the Philippines to sustain its attraction for manufacturing investors, the government must exert more effective efforts in addressing the high cost of electricity and doing business here, an official from the Employers Confederation of the Philippines-Cebu (ECOP-Cebu) said.
U.S. targets South Asian drug gang
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States targeted on Tuesday two lieutenants in a South Asian drug gang, freezing their U.S. assets and barring Americans from doing business with them. The U.S. Treasury designated Chhota Shakeel and Ibrahim "Tiger" Mermon as senior figures in a criminal organization run by Dawood Ibrahim, known as "D Company." Treasury said the D Company gang smuggles heroin and ...
Asia as global leader — not so fast
AS the European economy teeters on the verge of a second recession and the US recovery wobbles, Asia is brimming with optimism. For Asian triumphalists attending a recent conference in Thailand
Regional Entrepreneurs Share Business Expansion Through Franchising
In an effort to further encourage and inspire local companies to venture abroad, the Brunei Economic Development Board (BEDB) is organizing another SME Dialogue and Workshop. This is the fifth in a series of dialogues organized by the BEDB involving successful entrepreneurs from around the region.
Thailand pushed to revise money-laundering laws
The Joint Private Standing Committee of Thailand, which groups together three key business associations, will discuss with Thai Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra at the Joint Public-Private Committee .....
US blacklists 2 lieutenants of Indian crime lord
The Obama administration is slapping sanctions on two senior lieutenants of India's most-wanted organized crime lord.