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UOB puts people at the heart of sustainability journey

December 30, 2023

Today, the fast-changing world has faced challenges on various fronts. Among them is climate change, which has drawn the attention of all sectors across the world. The business sector has now set its sight on net zero greenhouse-gas emissions. But a survey among UN Global Compact Network’s members shows only 10 per cent of business leaders have the abilities to meet that goal.

Govt takes credit as UN ranks Thailand’s human development ‘high’ for 3rd year

September 11, 2022

Thailand saw “high human development” for the third consecutive year according to the latest United Nations Human Development Index (HDI), the government said on Sunday.

Bank gives small businesses lessons on surviving crises

WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 23, 2020

The Thai Credit Retail Bank (TCRB), which serves the micro business segment, is teaching small business owners how they can turn the Covid-19 crisis into an opportunity through its fourth “Smart Micro Customers: Hardworking, Saving with Discipline” programme.

Covid-19 crisis will lead to accelerated change in the automotive industry: researchers

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 15, 2020

Academics predict the automotive industry will see a reduced workforce and use more robots and automation after the Covid-19 crisis, pointing to an unskilled workforce and noting that opportunities for new graduates to enter the automotive manufacturing sector are still low due to an obvious lack of experience.

Indonesia breaks into UNDP's high human development category

SUNDAY, DECEMBER 15, 2019

For the first time in its history, Indonesia has made it into the United Nation’s high human development category thanks to its improved ranking in the 2018 Human Development Index (HDI).

Human development must come first on road towards ‘Thailand 4.0’, seminar hears

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 21, 2016

HUMAN development in organisations and the country as a whole should be the priority in helping transform the Kingdom into a sustainable economy, and eventually turning it into a valued-based economy – or “Thailand 4.0” – experts said at yesterday’s “Thailand’s Economic Outlook 2017: Towards Sustainability” seminar.