Six years ago, Dr Olarn Chaipravat, then a senior Finance Ministry advisor, predicted that the Chiang Mai Initiative signed by 13 Asian countries, including Thailand, in May 2000 could lead to a single Asian currency in the next 15-20 years.
Ashley Wearne, the managing director of Adobe for Southeast Asia, has been busy promoting Adobe's new Acrobat 9 software which came out in June this year.
The new product is dubbed a significant upgrade that will transform the process of creating and sharing electronic documents.
Extraordinary times call for extraordinary measures. This is why the latest government measures to prop up the ailing construction industry and resuscitate the moribund realestate market, which would be objectionable under normal circumstances, are being accepted, albeit not without reservations.