M&A transactions in Thailand on the road to recovery

Mazars in Thailand reports that M&A transactions in Thailand are beginning to recover as COVID-19 eases. Thai listed companies are actively entering M&A deals in both Thailand and Southeast Asia as a whole, while international private equity and venture capital investors are active in the Thai market One of the world’s leading audit and advisory […]

Looking ahead at Thailand’s New Business Landscape

As Thailand cautiously reopens its doors to the outside world, businesses around the country are preparing their strategies for recovery and growth. Effective planning, however, requires an understanding of the business landscape moving forward – and new research is shining an important light on the shape of things to come. The recent Fitch Ratings report […]

ASEAN Investment Report 2018

The ASEAN Investment Report 2018 was prepared under a technical cooperation agreement between the ASEAN Secretariat and the UNCTAD Division on Investment and Enterprise (DIAE) >> READ FULL REPORT HERE<<

How Digital Investments Can Create Strategic Value for Organisations

By Sanjay Sachdev, Partner, Grant Thornton Thailand The reluctance is understandable. Your business has showed good signs of health for years (or decades), in large part because you’ve concentrated on creating value in the field you know best. Within a short span of time, you’ve begun to hear plenty of talk about the need for businesses […]

Digital Disruption: What does it mean for accounting?

By Andrew McBean, CEO, PKF Holdings Thailand. There is a vague feeling of loss each time computers learn to perform a skill better than we can. Experts at the abacus no doubt felt it when calculators made their knowledge obsolete. Interestingly the first calculator, invented in 1645 by a supervisor of taxes in Rouen, was created […]

Addressing environmental and social issues for long-term business success in ASEAN

By Michael Waters, International Water and Environmental Consultant ASEAN is one of the most environmentally diverse regions on Earth with an astonishing level of biodiversity on land and in the seas. Corresponding to biodiversity, the 10 member countries of ASEAN exhibit a rich social diversity with countless languages, music, art, architecture, histories and traditions, many of […]

Learning how to do inter-ASEAN business.

By  Jim Holloway, International Advisor, V. Pack & Move (Bangkok) Co., Ltd. Since 1997, V. Pack & Move (Bangkok) Co., Ltd. has expanded its network of associates to cover all the countries in ASEAN In each case we were approached by clients in Thailand, or other countries, to find associates within specific ASEAN countries to facilitate […]

Outlook for Phuket 2018

By Harry Usher, the AustCham Thailand coordinator for Phuket and a Director of Lady Pie Phuket Phuket continues to grow economically as a cosmopolitan centre for residents (both foreign and Thai), business, and tourists. Several new hotels have been built to cater for the increased tourist demand and many of the more unsightly parts of Patong, […]

Business Schools for Digital Generations

By Dean Outerson, Project Head of Marketing & Communications, Sasin Graduate Institute of Business Administration  There’s an old adage that if a 19th century time traveller walked into a 21st century classroom, he would find everything essentially the same – a professor standing in front of students giving a lecture, and students taking notes and asking questions. While every […]