Thailand’s “Home Depot” Just Let AI Take Over Its Job Interviews—And AI Is Winning 99.5% of the Time

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

The Tea Tycoon Who Wants to Sell You Fertilizer: Inside Thailand’s Unlikely Agribusiness Bet

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