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Thailand tops “happy country” list for low unemployment, stable inflation
Thailand is the world's happiest country, and Venezuela is the most miserable - this is the result of Bloomberg's newly released Misery Index which...
Thailand’s GDP growth forecast cut to 1%
Thailand's National Economic and Social Development Board (NESDB) says economic growth in 2014 will be a mere one percentage point against 2.9 per cent...
Indonesia manufacturing on record high
Indonesian manufacturing activity surged to a record high in May, driven by unprecedented growth in new orders, an HSBC Markit purchasing managers' index (PMI)...
Which country is the luckiest in ASEAN?
To reach a state of national happiness, politics, the very nature of humanity’s will to guide and nurture, must play a part. Justin Calderon asks himself how this concept might apply to ASEAN countries.
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Thailand, Singapore most vulnerable to potential US recession
Southeast Asia could be seriously affected in case the US falls into recession, but some countries would be more badly hit than others, economists...