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Oct 5, 2024 | 
asia.nikkei.com | Kosuke Inoue
VIENTIANE -- A business venture to roast coffee using clean hydrogen is underway in Laos, where abundant water resource can generate hydroelectricity at low costs. TSB Greenex, the Tokyo-based environmental concern, has joined eight other firms to launch the Green Hydrogen Valley Project in Laos.
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Oct 3, 2024 | 
asia.nikkei.com | Kosuke Inoue
BANGKOK -- Support for Thai Prime Minister Paetongtarn Shinawatra has surged roughly a month after she took office, buoyed by her handling of policy initiatives and prompt responses to natural disasters. Paetongtarn's popularity rating rose to 31% in an opinion poll published this week by Thailand's National Institute of Development Administration, up from 5% in mid-June.
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Oct 1, 2024 | 
asia.nikkei.com | Kosuke Inoue
BANGKOK -- Thai financial institution SCB X has sold Purple Ventures, the operator of food delivery app Robinhood, to a consortium of investors for up to 2 billion baht ($61.4 million), giving a lifeline to the popular service that was on the verge of shutting down due to huge losses.
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Sep 24, 2024 | 
bmj.com | Kosuke Inoue |Susan Athey |Katherine Baicker |Yusuke Tsugawa
Kosuke Inoue, associate professor1 2, Susan Athey, professor3, Katherine Baicker, provost4, Yusuke Tsugawa, associate professor 1Department of Social Epidemiology, Graduate School of Medicine, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan 2Graduate School of Business, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA 3University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA 4Division of General Internal Medicine and Health Services Research, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Los Angeles, CA, USA Correspondence to: K Inoue...
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Sep 23, 2024 | 
bmj.com | Kosuke Inoue |Susan Athey |Katherine Baicker |Yusuke Tsugawa
Research Special paper BMJ 2024; 386 doi: https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj-2024-079377 Cite this as: BMJ 2024;386:e079377 Linked Editorial Effects of Medicaid coverage on cardiovascular health outcomes Kosuke Inoue, associate professor1 2, Susan Athey, professor3, Katherine Baicker, provost4, Yusuke Tsugawa, associate professor5 6 1Department of Social Epidemiology, Graduate School of Medicine, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan 2Hakubi Center, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan 3Graduate School of...
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Sep 20, 2024 | 
asia.nikkei.com | Kosuke Inoue |Ryosuke Hanada |Yuki Fujita
BANGKOK/MUMBAI/MANILA -- South and Southeast Asian countries are opening their doors wider to "digital nomads," offering long-stay visas to a group they hope will in turn strengthen their own economies. The number of digital nomads -- workers not tied to a specific location, often in the technology sector or self-employed -- has soared with the rise in remote work since the COVID-19 pandemic hit. They often opt to operate out of popular tourist destinations.
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Sep 3, 2024 | 
asia.nikkei.com | Kosuke Inoue
BANGKOK -- Thailand's Advanced Info Service, the telecom company founded by former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra, is expanding into cloud computing services and renewable energy as it pursues scale beyond its core industry. AIS announced a partnership with U.S. cloud services provider Oracle in early August, aiming to roll out the "AIS Cloud" by the end of March.
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Aug 28, 2024 | 
asia.nikkei.com | Kosuke Inoue
BANGKOK -- Widespread flooding in Thailand since mid-August has affected about 30,000 households and killed more than 20 people, in what is shaping up to be the first major test for new Prime Minister Paetongtarn Shinawatra. Concerns about the effect on tourism and agriculture are beginning to grow. Flooding has occurred in more than 10 provinces, with Chiang Rai and Sukhothai provinces in the north being the hardest hit, since Aug. 16.
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Aug 27, 2024 | 
asia.nikkei.com | Kosuke Inoue
BANGKOK -- As Thailand inches forward on its decades-old vision for a logistics corridor connecting the Pacific and Indian oceans, local opposition and political instability threaten the plans. The proposed 90-kilometer highway-and-rail link would cut across the Malay peninsula, connecting a planned port facing the Pacific Ocean in Chumphon province to another planned port facing the Indian Ocean in Ranong province. A special economic zone will be established nearby.
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Aug 12, 2024 | 
asia.nikkei.com | Kosuke Inoue
BANGKOK -- Thai officials have launched an all-out effort to control an invasive species of fish native to Africa that has caused substantial damage to the seafood industry. The blackchin tilapia is a voracious omnivore that can live in freshwater and saltwater. It is known for breeding rapidly: Eggs hatch after roughly 20 days, with 99% doing so successfully.
