Hints and tips:
...Is ChatGPT picking Dada Nexus (DADA) and Didi Global (DIDI) because of some hunch about China or because its training includes Thai-pop?...
...The V and M Houses, so called because their footprints resemble the letters, have glass facades, allowing you to peer, voyeur-like, into the apartments, replete with their spiky balconies....
...The number of tourists — especially those from the US and Europe — has increased since June, said Nguyen Thi Nguyet, a 53-year-old café owner who has lived in the area for more than 30 years....
...The story of the Thai cave rescue, however, transcends the normal treatments....
...Chef Pietro Leemann is a pioneer of sustainable dining, and each dish – from “Sister Moon” (a Thai-style gazpacho with peas, lemon-peel cream and strawberries) to “Sun Harbour” (a savoury aubergine tatin...
...Make like the model and designer TyLynn Nguyen and try a plain white tee underneath a gently oversized style....
...Heading the kitchen is Célia Nguyen, who serves classic French food with a twist, often introducing Asian ingredients or increasing the acidity of traditional plates....
...He urged authorities to consider the Thai government’s recent “factory sandbox”, which coordinates vaccines, tests and quarantines so that companies can maintain production....
...As ever, reach out to us with your thoughts (imani.moise@ft.com and sid.v@ft.com). Thanks, and happy reading....
...As a young man, Sepulveda practised Thai boxing and played lacrosse for the UK’s national team. “I know how to handle myself,” he says....
...Thaksin Shinawatra, the exiled former prime minister, stepped in with an offer in an online chat this week to help secure Russian Sputnik V vaccines....
...Earlier this week the Thai government, under pressure from companies worried about delays in vaccinations and the reopening the country’s tourism-reliant economy to international visitors, said it would...
...Prime minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc this week flatly denied Vietnam was manipulating its currency....
...“You almost feel like you are chewing the air,” said the husband of a Thai-speaking expatriate couple, checking in to an almost empty property. The haze spreads across northern Thailand....
...Samsung, the world’s biggest smartphone maker, produces nearly two-thirds of its phones, including its latest range, at plants in Vietnam’s Bac Ninh and Thai Nguyen provinces....
...Historically, economies frequently experience a V-shaped recovery after a recession....
...Head-on competition with Thai sugar producers “is going to be very tough,” Nguyen Van Loc, secretary-general of the Vietnam Sugarcane and Sugar Association (VSSA), told scoutAsia Research....
...Thai electoral law prohibits media company shareholders from running for office....
...But I doubt that shape of the share price graph will be a perfect V. The other big V — the virus — has exposed too much vulnerability....
...Nguyen Xuan Phuc, prime minister, has ordered the ministry of agriculture to draw up a directive banning wildlife trade “quickly” and present it to his government by April 1....
...Where to seeMary Quant at the V&A (vam.ac.uk); till Feb 16. Zandra Rhodes: Fifty Years of Fabulous at the Fashion & Textile Museum (ftmlondon.org); Sept 27 2019-Jan 26 2020....
...Lured by cheaper labour costs and huge tax breaks, Samsung built its first smartphone plant in Vietnam’s Bac Ninh province in 2008 for $2.5bn and another in the country’s Thai Nguyen province in 2013 for...
...However, the England v France game was cancelled due to Typhoon Hagibis, the most powerful storm to hit the country in decades....
...Therefore, it will take a certain amount of time to change consumer behaviour and reduce alcohol consumption levels,” said Nguyen Hanh Nguyen, a project officer at HealthBridge Canada in Vietnam....
...The EC last week resolved to press a charge against Mr Thanathorn for his sale of shares in V-Luck Media Company, the publisher of Thailand’s defunct Who magazine....
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