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Thailand's TH-AI Passport, Explained, and How It Compares with National AI Programmes Worldwide
Five million Thais, twelve months of free premium AI, and 1,621 million baht drawn from a fund that sits outside the annual budget. Thailand's TH-AI Passport is the government's flagship AI initiative and its most contested. MCG read the full tender document, the e-bidding announcement and the 33-page terms of reference, then set the programme against the national AI initiatives of Malta, Singapore, the UAE, Estonia, Vietnam, India and Sweden, to ask the question that will actually decide whether the money is well spent. Not who won the tender, but whether access converts into capability.
Thailand's Land Bridge and the Moving Map It Must Account For
Thailand is reviewing its nearly trillion-baht plan to bypass the Strait of Malacca. We weigh the Land Bridge against the chokepoint data, energy forecasts, port competition, and geopolitics that have shifted since the original 2024 study, and ask which version of the idea still holds up before the 90-day review reports.
Concrete Is Not Connectivity: What Thailand's Aviation Build-Out Actually Decides
Thailand is building its most ambitious airport expansion in a generation. But its future as an aviation hub will be decided in the institutional layer: its carriers, its MRO and cargo ecosystem, and the partnerships now forming in Paris, not in terminal capacity. A strategic read for 2026.
Thailand's Anti-Corruption Push and the OECD Clock: Reading the JSCCIB May 2026 Survey
Thailand's private sector named ten state agencies in its first agency-level bribery survey. The Prime Minister called the problem a "stigma." With OECD accession approaching and the Corruption Perceptions Index at its lowest in 19 years, a strategic reading of who is setting the anti-corruption agenda — and what reform will actually look like.
Thailand's Land Bridge: The Trillion-Baht Question Returns
Three feasibility studies that disagree. Sixty-seven per cent public support that admits limited understanding. An SEC Bill with eighteen statutory exemptions. A pipeline pivot now folded into the cabinet brief. A strategic reading of Thailand's Land Bridge as the Anutin government begins its 90-day review.
Strategic Communications in the Gulf: How the GCC Held Investor Confidence Through the 2026 Iran Conflict
The Gulf just absorbed the hardest regional shock in a generation. Missile debris on UAE soil. Ruwais and Habshan hit. Jebel Ali briefly suspended. Brent up 51% in a month. And yet sovereign capital kept deploying, DIFC stayed open, and the ceasefire held. How the GCC's signalling architecture passed its hardest test.
Thailand's New Policy Direction: What Anutin's Second Cabinet Means for Business and Investment in 2026
As Songkran generated over 30 billion baht in tourism revenue this April, a quieter but more consequential moment was unfolding in parliament. Prime Minister Anutin Charnvirakul's second cabinet stepped forward with an ambitious "10 Plus" reform programme — and the stakes for Thailand's economic trajectory could not be higher.
Thailand EV Policy 2026: Oil Shock, Chinese Dominance, and the Road Ahead
Thailand's EV market grew 80% in 2025 — but an oil shock from the Middle East, structural dependence on Chinese manufacturers, and a grid still 85% fossil-powered are testing whether the government's 30@30 policy can survive contact with political and economic reality. MCG Partner Gift Tammapibanudom analyses the fault lines, the investment opportunities, and what the government must do in the next 18 months.