Picture a company that spent two decades building gas plants, pipelines, and power lines — the unglamorous plumbing of an economy. Now imagine that same company standing on stage and declaring itself the backbone of Southeast Asia’s artificial intelligence boom. That is exactly what Gulf Development Public Company Limited (GULF) — Thailand’s largest privately-run power … Read more
A homegrown Thai energy conglomerate just told the world it’s no longer in the gas business — it’s in the business of keeping the artificial intelligence economy running. Here’s why that matters far beyond Bangkok. If you’ve followed the global AI boom from London, Singapore, or San Francisco, you’ve probably heard the refrain by now: … Read more
On the eastern edge of Bangkok, a Thai property giant just placed a very expensive bet: that the fastest way to sell a $1.8 million house to a foreign executive isn’t a better kitchen or a rooftop pool. It’s a school uniform. Sansiri Public Company Limited, one of Thailand’s largest listed property developers (traded on … Read more
Thailand’s economic forecasters just did something unusual: they raised their growth outlook in the middle of a year full of global uncertainty. The University of the Thai Chamber of Commerce (UTCC) — one of Thailand’s most closely watched university-affiliated economic think tanks, roughly equivalent to how markets in the West track forecasts from a national … Read more
If you have ever cracked open a bottle of iced green tea in Thailand, there is a good chance the man behind it just placed a bet that has nothing to do with beverages at all. Tan Passakornnatee, the flamboyant entrepreneur widely known in Thailand by the honorific “Sia Tan” (a Thai-Chinese term of respect … Read more
Thailand does not yet have a single nuclear power plant. But the country’s state utility just laid out, in unusually specific detail, exactly how it intends to build one — and why it thinks it can do so faster, cheaper, and more safely than the giant reactors most people picture when they hear the word … Read more
On September 10, 2026, a Thai company most Westerners have never heard of struck a deal that says a lot about where global food money is heading. Pattaya Food Group (PFG) — a four-decade-old Thai seafood processor named after the beach resort city where it was founded — announced a strategic partnership and investment from … Read more
On September 10, 2026, two of Southeast Asia’s biggest infrastructure players announced they are going to lay new fiber-optic cable across the seabed between Thailand and Singapore. GULF (formally Gulf Development Public Company Limited, a Thai energy conglomerate listed on the Stock Exchange of Thailand, or SET — Thailand’s national stock market, roughly the equivalent … Read more
Most people who think about a trip to Thailand picture temples, night markets, and beach sunsets. Almost nobody pictures a runway. That is exactly what Thailand’s national tourism agency is trying to change. On September 9, 2026, the Tourism Authority of Thailand (TAT) — the government body responsible for marketing the country abroad, roughly equivalent … Read more
Thailand’s economy is growing faster than anyone expected six months ago. Exports are booming, foreign investment applications have crossed a symbolic trillion-baht threshold, and tourists are once again filling flights into Bangkok and Phuket. On paper, it looks like a genuine recovery story for Southeast Asia’s second-largest economy. But scratch the surface, and the story … Read more