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
Bangkok’s skyline is famous for temples and skyscrapers. Increasingly, it should also be famous for something less glamorous but far more consequential: hospital beds. Over the past five and a half years, Thailand’s government has quietly funneled the equivalent of $1.17 billion into 123 healthcare projects, from glass-tower private hospitals to specialized cancer and kidney … Read more
Thailand’s best-known bottled tea entrepreneur just placed a bet that has nothing to do with tea. Ichitan Group, the company behind the ubiquitous green-and-gold Ichitan iced tea bottles found in nearly every 7-Eleven from Chiang Mai to Phuket, is moving into fertilizer — a business as far removed from beverages as motor oil is from … Read more
Bangkok is about to stage something unusual for a government tourism campaign: a three-day fashion event where century-old weaving traditions, a mythical river serpent, and a university student’s graduation portfolio all share the same runway. It’s called THAI T’REASURES by Amazing Thailand, and behind the sequins is a calculated economic bet — one that Thai … Read more