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Two foreign patients — one from Australia, one from the Middle East — have quietly become part of a medical story that sounds more like science fiction than a Tuesday news brief. In private hospitals in Bangkok, doctors have injected them with cancer treatments that exist nowhere else in their exact form: vaccines synthesized from … Read more
Thailand has quietly become one of the world’s beneficiaries of the artificial intelligence spending spree. Chip factories are running near capacity, foreign money is pouring into new data centers, and export numbers that had been sluggish for years are suddenly posting double-digit growth. But a new risk analysis from a leading Thai university think tank … Read more
Thailand has spent more than three decades stuck in what economists call the “middle-income trap” — wealthy enough to have escaped poverty, but never quite rich enough to join the ranks of developed economies. Now the country’s most powerful business lobby is proposing what amounts to a national reinvention plan: seven targeted industries, a 35% … Read more
Global tech giants are racing to plant server farms on Thai soil, and the numbers are staggering: hundreds of billions of dollars in approved investment, led by a single project from TikTok’s parent company that dwarfs most countries’ entire annual foreign investment. On paper, it looks like an unambiguous economic win. Underneath, though, Thai energy … Read more
If you asked most foreign travelers to point to Udon Thani on a map, many couldn’t. It sits nowhere near the beaches of Phuket, the temples of Chiang Mai, or the nightlife of Bangkok. It’s a quiet provincial capital in Thailand’s northeastern region, closer to the Laotian border than to any international airport most tourists … Read more
A Government in a Hurry Governments love to promise investors that approvals will move faster. Thailand’s government just put a number on it — and the number is big enough to notice. On September 11, 2026, the board of Thailand’s Board of Investment (BOI) — the government agency that reviews, approves, and grants tax and … Read more
In a small town in northeastern Thailand nearly three decades ago, a father-and-son team designed and built a modern hardware store just as the country’s economy was about to collapse. The 1997 Asian Financial Crisis hit weeks after they opened. They survived it, and today that single store has grown into Siam Global House, a … Read more
Most restaurant owners measure success in two numbers: how many branches they’ve opened, and how much money landed in the bank at the end of the year. Maguro Group — the Bangkok-based company behind the Maguro sushi chain, the Hitori Shabu hot pot brand, and nearly a dozen other Japanese and Korean dining concepts — … Read more
Bangkok isn’t the only Thai city rolling out the red carpet for Chinese travelers this October. In a quiet but telling shift, Thailand’s tourism authority is now counting direct flights into a small northeastern provincial capital as part of its strategy to win back Chinese visitors — a sign of just how seriously the country … Read more
Tucked behind Chiang Mai’s tourist-clogged night bazaar sits a neighborhood most visitors walk straight past: Chang Moi, a warren of aging shophouses that once thrived as the city’s river-trade hub before fading into the background of Thailand’s most photographed province. That is now changing on purpose. Chiang Mai’s city government has turned faded walls, old … Read more