The Thai Cottage Group Company

EG Group in talks to sell some UK assets to co-founder Zuber Issa

...EG Group is in talks to offload some UK assets to billionaire co-founder Zuber Issa in what the company told investors was an attempt to reduce the debt pile of its petrol-station empire....

March 6, 2024

Myanmar

Myanmar’s junta loses key base to rebel forces

...the Thai border....

April 9, 2024

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Myanmar

Myanmar junta loses ground as insurgency gains momentum

...on Myanmar to the International Crisis Group, a think-tank....

April 13, 2024

Selfridges & Co Ltd

Thai investor set to take control of Selfridges Group

...Signa declined to comment on what Central Group’s takeover means for Signa’s future, or the other retail businesses it co-owns with the Thai company....

November 14, 2023

Israel-Hamas war

Thai worker describes ordeal as Gaza captive

...A further 32 Thais were killed, including all the people with whom Wichian hid in a bunker on the morning of the attack....

January 8, 2024

Cryptocurrencies

Crypto group Copper launches review after ‘embarrassing’ sushi party

...The UK group hosted a party at the five-star Mandrake hotel in central London at which two people who appeared to be wearing thin bodysuits lay on a long table with plates of sushi on their bodies, the Financial...

March 28, 2024

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Music

Rock band Kiss sells rights for $300mn to company behind Abba hologram show

...The company said the deal would “unlock new audiences and revenue streams”....

April 4, 2024

UK prime property

Hot property: five homes for sale in Pembrokeshire

...Who Country Living Group Estate, St Dogmaels, Cardigan, £1.85mn Where On the River Teifi in west Wales, the estate was a prominent vantage point for seafarers....

March 19, 2024

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...Wechat groups between staff members are actively discouraged....

March 6, 2024

News in-depthNikkei Asia

Malaysian and Thai economies suffer as currencies slide against dollar

...“The Malaysian ringgit moves in lockstep with the Chinese yuan,” said CIMB Group’s Intan Nadia Jalil....

October 27, 2023

ReviewNon-Fiction

How Virginia Woolf, Sylvia Townsend Warner and Rosamond Lehmann found creativity in the countryside

...We meet the novelist Rosamond Lehmann in 1941, recently divorced and beginning a new life at Diamond Cottage in Berkshire....

March 21, 2024

News updates from March 12: US House votes through bill to ban TikTok; Geert Wilders announces he will not be Netherlands PM

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...Corporate updates: Adidas, Balfour Beatty, Eni, Eon, F&C Investment Trust, Ferrexpo, Geberit, The Gym Group, Inditex, Metro Bank and Volkswagen issue results....

March 13, 2024

Lebara Mobile Ltd

European telcoms group Lebara explores sale

...The London-based company, which since 2019 has been owned by the investment groups Alchemy and Triton, began life offering cheap international phone calls to migrants who had come to Europe....

December 20, 2023

South-East Asia

Margins wane for banks in south-east Asia as US interest rate cuts loom

...“[The] company does not see stress in the book right now,” the report noted. “We see rather limited upside . . . with costs running slightly higher and . . . NIM marginally softer.”...

March 7, 2024

Correction

Correction: Suntory Group

...Suntory Beverage and Food is the soft drinks company of the Suntory Group. It does not include Suntory whiskies as wrongly suggested in the Women of the Year feature....

December 1, 2023

FT Live

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News in-depthNikkei Asia

How Thai workers became integral to Israel’s economy

...group set up to help Thai workers in Israel....

October 28, 2023

World Trade Organization

WTO agrees to extend ecommerce tariff exemption for 2 more years

...“It’s a relief to see the moratorium survive by the skin of its teeth,” said Tiffany Smith vice-president of the National Foreign Trade Council, a Washington-based business lobby group....

March 1, 2024

News in-depthChinese business & finance

Inside the crisis at Alibaba: how China’s best-known tech group lost its way

...The intended rallying cry only served to show how China’s best-known tech group has lost its direction....

January 2, 2024

News in-depthThailand

Thai PM clashes with central bank governor over $14bn handout plan

...“This has to be one of the few world leaders trying to convince the population that the economy is worse than it is,” said Peter Mumford, south-east Asia head for Eurasia Group....

February 6, 2024

Prime property

Hot property: five homes for sale that celebrate timber

...Who The Whistler Real Estate Company/Luxury Portfolio House, Martha’s Vineyard, Massachusetts, US, $25mn Where In Edgartown, on Martha’s Vineyard....

December 14, 2023

John Thornhill

The AI race is generating a dual reality

...Private sector companies have certainly captured many of the smartest AI researchers....

April 18, 2024

Thailand

Thai PM Srettha faces hard sell with $14bn stimulus handout

...group....

December 5, 2023

News in-depthCompetition & Markets Authority

The cost of owning a pet: why UK regulators are taking aim at pricey vets

...Just a few decades ago, the vet sector was a cottage industry made up of vet-owned independent clinics....

March 17, 2024

ESPN Inc

Can Disney’s ESPN become the US’s biggest sports betting company?

...Chad Beynon, a gaming industry analyst at Macquarie Group....

November 14, 2023

Margaret Heffernan

Why more executive careers should start in a parish council

...The chair insists on fairness: the same rules apply whether residents live in miners’ cottages or manor houses. There’s no grandstanding....

April 15, 2024

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