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Bangkok Governor Election 2026: What the Next Generation Expects
Bangkok votes for governor on 28 June 2026. Rather than add to the campaign noise, we asked two of our junior members to write about the city their generation actually wants: cleaner streets, working drainage, and a realistic path to a home. Their reflection, with MCG's read on how the race is likely to land.
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 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's Fever Test: What the Energy Crisis Reveals About the Limits of Political Stability
Thailand's new government inherited a structural illness. The Iran conflict did not create the crisis — it ran the diagnostic test. Six weeks into the Bhumjaithai mandate, a 35-billion-baht Oil Fund deficit, a minister who admitted on air that GPS tracking of oil trucks was never operational, and farmers in the ruling party's own heartland saying they cannot take it anymore. MCG examines what the energy crisis of March 2026 reveals about the structural limits of Thailand's political stability — and what it means for investors in the region.