A bank employee gathers banknotes at a Kasikornbank in Bangkok on May 12, 2016. There has been a recent 1.8% appreciation in the baht during the past 12 days -- the biggest climb in an Asian currency basket tracked by Bloomberg. The $395-billion economy, Southeast Asia’s second largest, exports everything from electronics and cars to rice and rubber. That compares with a yearly average of 7.5% in a decade-long boom to 1996, according to the World Bank. A push to make innovation and technological creativity bigger engines of expansion, called Thailand 4.0, remains a work in progress.

Source: Bangkok Post October 26, 2016 04:52 UTC