Small Hotels Guild Launches Pact With Airbnb
BANGKOK — Global room rental platform Airbnb announced an alliance Wednesday with a small hotels consortium.
Banking Coming in October to Every 7-Eleven
BANGKOK — Twenty-million bank customers will be able to make basic transactions at all 7-Eleven stores when a pilot banking program launches next month.
DTAC Must End Service to 60,000 Customers
BANGKOK — Customers with numbers still registered to legacy services – more than 90,000 – will lose service Saturday night after the mobile operator pulls the plug.
Thai Law: Good, Bad and Ugly Ways to Wipe Out Corporate Losses
How to wipe out corporate losses? The solutions to restoring shareholder equity are many – but not equally attractive.
Nation Gives Freebies to Celebrate Cave Boys
RANONG — J’Tae scooped steaming guay tiew noodles into bowls while turning to watch, enraptured, at the news.
Airbnb Teases Major ‘Partnership’ With Thai Gov’t
Short-term rental platform Airbnb said Monday it will announce a breakthrough in cooperation with Thai authorities next week.
Thai Law: Case Closed on Airbnb. Here’s Why it Won’t Matter.
The law is now clear: Airbnb is illegal. Read why that is unlikely to halt its growth.
11 ‘Forbidden’ Careers Opened to Foreigners
BANGKOK — Nearly a dozen previously off-limits jobs were opened to foreign nationals Thursday, while a request retail service jobs be included was denied.
Vendors Petition Gov’t to Allow Foreigners to Work in Shopfronts
BANGKOK — Korpong Tansuwan has a clothing store to run. But he’s also got children to run back and forth from school and supplies to keep in stock. His sole Burmese employee is left to manage things alone during these errands – which is when undercover cops like to show up and cause trouble. Trouble that can end in paying a costly bribe.
Let Us Hire Foreigners, Short-Staffed Shop Owners Demand
BANGKOK — Business owners say they are unable to find Thai employees to staff service jobs and are urging the government to relax its restrictions on foreign employees.
