Tag: Economy
In Thailand, hopes for a revival as tourists trickle back
Tourism ground to a halt when the government imposed tight entry requirements last year to keep out COVID-19
Pope Francis tells Catholic business leaders to invest in the common...
Pope Francis encourages business people to invest in "the common good, not hiding money in tax havens”
Thai tiger park hopes to roar back to life as foreign...
Foreign tourists vaccinated against COVID-19 can bypass quarantine requirements and freely move around the island of Phuket
K-pop activism a lifeline for Thailand’s hard-hit ‘tuk tuk’ drivers
Drivers of Bangkok's distinctive tuk tuks have been among the hardest-hit by the pandemic's devastation of Thailand's tourism industry
Cambodians brave COVID-19 impact with small plots of land
Pandemic changes fortunes for some Cambodians forced to swap city labor for farming
Rise in religious conservatism ripples across sector in Indonesia
The trend comes amid broader societal change in the world's biggest Muslim-majority country driven by millions of young “born-again” Muslims
Pope calls for support for workers affected by pandemic, warns against...
Pope Francis warned against an “elitist dynamic” that discards others and sacrifices “those who have been left behind"
Thai king approves US$16 billion borrowing bill for COVID-19 response
With the new borrowing and current financial support schemes, the government has 1.25 trillion baht (US$39.9 billion) to help the economy
Pope Francis’ urges Catholics to pray for global financial markets
Pope Francis urged the faithful to pray "to prevent the poor from paying the consequences" of "financial speculation"
SPOTLIGHT: Cambodians fear oil profits won’t go where needed
It’s doubtful that govt will be transparent about how exactly it will use oil revenues, local says