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Platform Labour Regulation in Thailand: Four Tracks, and What Southeast Asia Already Chose

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.

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Thailand's Lemon Law Is Coming: What the Liability for Defective Goods Act Means for Business

Thailand's Lemon Law Is Coming: What the Liability for Defective Goods Act Means for Business

A 420 to 0 first reading. Six drafts folded into one. A presumption that flips the burden of proof onto sellers, repair clocks of 60 and 90 days, and a citizens' petition of 21,111 signatures that kept the bill alive through a dissolution. Thailand's Lemon Law will pass; what it will cost, and whom, is being decided in committee and in regulations most businesses are not yet watching. MCG reads the Liability for Defective Goods Act past the headlines: the mechanics, the comparative record from Singapore to Manila, and the engagement window that matters

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