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After THACCA: who builds Thailand's creative economy now?
The THACCA bill has stalled, but the institutional problem it was designed to solve has not. Thailand now has to decide whether its creative economy needs a new agency, or a better way of making the agencies it already has work together.
Thai Foreign Policy Under Review: Good Relations, Limited Leverage
Scholars at Chulalongkorn University assessed Thailand's relations with the US, China, the EU, and Japan, and found the bargaining power missing.
Thailand's OECD Accession: Why the 2028 Deadline is not the Real Test
Thailand has built the machinery for OECD accession and set 2028 as its target. But the OECD has agreed no date. MCG examines the reforms that will determine the timetable, and why the real test lies in Thailand's ability to turn administrative mobilisation into politically difficult decisions.
The Supplier Base, Not the Border: What Thailand Is Actually Deciding About Japan
Japan has asked Thailand to review car tariffs under JTEPA, and the Prime Minister has ordered a tax review to retain Japanese production. Meanwhile Mitsubishi, Isuzu and Mazda have committed fresh billions. On what the money is actually telling us.
Platform Labour Regulation in Thailand: Four Tracks, and What Southeast Asia Already Chose
Four things happened in Bangkok between 18 and 20 August, and together they explain where Thailand's platform labour reform sits. MCG reads the four regulatory tracks now running in parallel, why the Bill everyone watches is the slowest, why the binding rules are arriving through competition law instead, and what Thailand's neighbours have already chosen.
Calibrated Re-engagement: ASEAN's Benchmark Problem and the Road to 2028
Thailand has given its Myanmar policy a name, calibrated re-engagement, and a set of benchmarks to go with it. Its own foreign minister has since confirmed that no commitment was secured. MCG examines the framework ASEAN is quietly building in place of the Five-Point Consensus, why the bloc remains divided over it, and what the road to Thailand's 2028 chairmanship means for business across the border.
Thailand Land Bridge: The Trillion-Baht Corridor Stopped Post-Review
A rate of return falling from 8 per cent to 4.8. A net present value moving from positive 600 billion baht to negative 10,287 million. Two feasibility studies that disagreed for years, and a committee that finally chose between them. Thailand has stopped its trillion-baht Land Bridge and named a 110 km railway in its place. A rate of return falling from 8 per cent to 4.8. A net present value moving from positive 600 billion baht to negative 10,287 million. Two feasibility studies that disagreed for years, and a committee that finally chose between them. Thailand has stopped its trillion-baht Land Bridge and named a 110 km railway in its place. MCG reads the decision past the announcement: whose arithmetic won, what the replacement has not been through, and why it is being built to a gauge that cannot serve its own purpose.
Thailand High-Speed Rail in 2026: CP Group Moves to Exit the Three-Airport Line
One termination letter, a half-built Chinese line, and 237 billion baht of tenders on the clock. A strategic reading of Thailand's high-speed rail reckoning in 2026.