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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.
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.
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.
Resilience Over Efficiency: How Geopolitical Risk Is Redrawing Asia's Digital Infrastructure Map
As subsea cable investment accelerates across Asia-Pacific, the logic driving it has shifted from efficiency to resilience. The cables being laid today are not just infrastructure — they are a map of how capital, governments, and great powers expect the next decade to unfold. MCG examines what this means for investors and multinationals operating in the region.