EnquiStock
Looking at and breaking down Thailand’s best performing stocks in a down year
A recent surge in global equity markets show that investors are perhaps ignoring the negative economic data released for the recently ended quarter.For example, the S&P 500 Index, Nasdaq Index, Korea’s KOSPI Index, India’s NIFTY Index, Jakarta Composite...
Current Affairs
Anti-government student protests take place throughout country; new poll suggests that government should listen
Anti-government, student-led rallies took place across Thailand over the weekend as student groups vowed to bring down the government of General Prayut Chan-ocha and force a rewrite of a military-drafted constitution.The protests, which took place in Chiang Mai,...
Main News
The myth of Lanna, its history and trying to reconstruct the past
The entrance to Tha Pae Gate sits along the moat surrounding the inner town of Chiang Mai, the capital city of northern Thailand. Once a fortress, these ruins are now over 700 years old and dates to a distant...
Commentary
Worth remembering October 6 as Thai conservatives ready for battle
Student protests have broken out across Thailand for the past two weeks with demonstrators calling for the resignation of the Prayut Chan-ocha government and the tearing up of the military-drafted constitution.The students have come in force to voice...
Current Affairs
Student protests in Southeast Asia have brought down dictators before: What Thailand’s students can learn
The ground
seems to be moving beneath our feet. Across the nation, protests have spread
like wildfire. Many have been led under the ‘Free Youth’ or #เยาวชนปลดแอก banner, but the turnout has
spanned geographies and generations. There are the students in their...
Current Affairs
Opinion: How Thailand’s youth transformed their political awakening into a festival of hope
The protest on June 25 in front of Democracy Monument was a landmark moment in our recent history. Unlike the other protests of the past 20 years, this one was filled with colorful outfits, colorful hair, distinct personal style...
Current Affairs
Red Bull parent company tries to distance itself from car-crash heir after boycott threats
Red Bull's parent company in Thailand, TCP Group, released a public statement distancing itself from Vorayuth Yoovidhya who was revealed this week to have been acquitted for a traffic incident which left a police officer dead.Vorayuth was wanted...
Commentary
Opinion: Reconciling Thailand’s political generation gap
On July 19, in one corner of Thai Twitter, a question was posed. “Do your family members have differing political perspectives? And if so, how do you live together?” Never mention politics at the Thanksgiving dinner; so goes the timeless...
EnquiStock
Political changes and protests will not hurt stock markets, the economy will
Over the past two weeks, the local and international press have covered news of student protests and resignations of Thailand’s economic team and ministers. The protests, though relatively small at this stage, may worry investors given Thailand’s history of...
Current Affairs
Harassed by the state, a graffiti artist considers his life, his safety and exile
Headache Stencil is the pseudonym of a graffiti artist who has been painting political imagery for years. His anti-coup messages have gone viral and has given him a fan base but have also put him in the crosshairs of...
