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
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
BANGKOK — A coalition of 100 organizations wants to convince Thailand — and eventually the world — that living to 100 in good health isn’t a fantasy, it’s a business plan. On September 9, 2026, an industry group called the Sustainable Medical Tourism Innovation Association (a Thai trade body that promotes the country’s health and … 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, 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
Thailand, a country that has never operated a nuclear power plant, has just laid out a roadmap to build one within roughly a decade. The state utility running the plan insists nothing is set in stone — no site, no vendor, no final government sign-off. But the timeline, the technology, and the ambition behind it … Read more