Thailand 4.0
HCMC, Hanoi, Manila, Bangkok among world’s most dynamic cities
Vietnam’s Ho Chi Minh City and Hanoi appear prominently among the global Top 10 most dynamically growing cities in the new City Momentum Index...
Thailand only ASEAN country that improved digital competitiveness
Thailand is placed comparatively well on this year’s World Digital Competitiveness Ranking compiled by Lausanne, Switzerland-based International Institute for Management Development (IMD) which issues...
Alibaba commits to $320-million investment in Thailand
Alibaba Group on April 20 signed an agreement as scheduled with the Thai government to build a “Smart Digital Trading Hub” in the country,...
Thailand dreams of 100 smart cities
As a part of its Thailand 4.0 initiative - a plan to transform Thailand's economy into a digitally powered ecosystem - the country has...
Thailand’s economy shows some muscles
Investment drawn to Thailand’s proposed Eastern Economic Corridor (EEC) could push the country’s economic growth rate above five per cent by 2021, Siam Commercial...
Skills upgrade for 13 million Thai workers needed: Expert
Around 13 million people, or more than a third of Thailand’s 38-million-strong labour force, need skill upgrades, economic expert Kiatanantha Lounkaew, lecturer at the...
Thailand needs 800 more cyber security specialists
Thailand, which is currently promoting its Thailand 4.0 strategy that aims at transforming the country's economy into a information technology- and knowledge-driven one, is...
Thailand wants investors acquire a taste for food innovation
In its quest to become a future-oriented, innovative economy, Thailand is putting the focus on one of the things in which the country already...
Jack Ma becomes digital economy adviser for Malaysia
The founder and executive chairman of China's hugely successful e-commerce corporation Alibaba Group, Jack Ma, has been appointed advisor to the Malaysian government to...
Thailand’s dependence on tourism reaches critical dimensions
The Thai government in its economic review for 2016 said that travel and tourism accounted for 17.7 per cent of the nation’s income last...
Startups set to spur new economic model for Thailand
Thailand in its aim to embark on a innovation- and smart service-based economic model, dubbed "Thailand 4.0", is now set to boost the number...
Thailand drafts roadmap for “digital economy”
Other countries have their "visions" for the economic future, Thailand uses a borrowed term from the IT sector: The country wants to become "Thailand...
Thailand seeks to become Southeast Asia’s start-up hub
"Thailand 4.0" is the new catchphrase for the Thai government in its aim to groom the country's start-up scene to an extent that Thailand...
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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...