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Navigating the Beauty Market Landscape in Southeast Asia and MENA
Southeast Asia and the Middle East & North Africa are emerging as the beauty industry’s fastest-growing markets. SEA’s digitally native Gen Z consumers are driving skincare, makeup, and halal beauty demand, while MENA leads in premiumisation, luxury fragrances, and dermatology-led skincare. As clean beauty and culturally aligned products gain momentum, brands that localise and adapt to these markets will capture the next wave of global beauty growth.
Thailand’s Battle to Breathe: Clean Air Act
Thailand’s Clean Air Act transforms citizen advocacy into law, creating the country’s first framework for air-quality governance. It targets PM2.5 pollution, applies the Polluter Pays Principle, and empowers local authorities marking a shift from crisis management to prevention and linking environmental policy with ESG accountability.
Remembering Queen Sirikit: Fashioning a Nation’s Soft Power
Queen Sirikit’s legacy is more than royal grace. She transformed Thai silk into diplomacy, empowered rural artisans, and showed how culture can become a nation’s strongest voice on the world stage.
Photo Credit: Queen Sirikit Museum of Textiles
Anutin Becomes Thailand’s 32nd Prime Minister - Bhumjaithai, Thaksin, Border Disputes, U.S. Tariffs, and Constitutional Reform
Thailand politics is entering a new chapter as Anutin Charnvirakul, leader of the Bhumjaithai Party, is elected the country’s 32nd prime minister with 311 parliamentary votes. The victory comes just hours after former premier Thaksin Shinawatra’s dramatic departure by private jet ahead of his September 9 Supreme Court ruling. This analysis explores what Anutin’s rise means for Thai politics in 2025 — from coalition dynamics and constitutional reform to the Bhumjaithai Party’s growing influence, Thailand–Cambodia border disputes, the impact of U.S. tariffs, and ongoing cases such as the Khao Kradong land dispute and Senate election probes.
Cover Photo Credit: BBC Thai
Thailand Political Crisis 2025: People’s Party Backs Anutin as PM Vote Set for Sept 5
Thailand’s political crisis deepens as the People’s Party backs Anutin for PM, dissolution bid is blocked, and a decisive vote set for Sept 5.
Cover Photo Credit: Thairath Online
Thailand’s Political Standoff Sharpens as Dissolution Debate Heats Up
Thailand faces fresh political turmoil after Prime Minister Paetongtarn Shinawatra’s removal. With parliament split, the People’s Party demands dissolution, snap elections, and constitutional reform—raising legal debate over whether a caretaker PM can dissolve parliament.
Thailand faces another abrupt political turn as the Constitutional Court dismisses PM Paetongtarn Shinawatra
Prime Minister Paetongtarn Shinawatra has been dismissed by Thailand’s Constitutional Court, plunging the country into political crisis as parties battle for power, the People’s Party demands dissolution and reform, and markets brace for instability.
Terminal Turbulence: Thailand Duty Free’s Concession Crisis
King Power's push to renegotiate or terminate its airport duty-free concessions with AOT could reshape Thailand’s tourism industry. Explore the financial, political, and economic implications.
Cover Photo Credit: Brandinside.asia