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
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
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
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
Two of Southeast Asia’s biggest infrastructure players just placed a multi-billion-baht bet that has nothing to do with factories, tourism, or exports — Thailand’s classic economic pillars. Instead, it’s about fiber-optic glass strands running along the seabed of the Gulf of Thailand and the South China Sea. On September 10, 2026, Gulf Development and Singtel … Read more