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This article is a posting of a recently printed story in Director's print edition. It was provided by Marsh PB Thailand. In the light of current events in Bangkok it is very relevant.

Safeguarding Investments and Loans in Emerging Markets

The financial crisis that spread rapidly around the globe beginning in late 2008 had a negative impact on all countries but has also created opportunities, particularly in Asia.

Pursuing business opportunities in emerging markets can be extremely rewarding, but it comes with an added element of risk from the potential for political and economic instability. Most foreign governments seek to attract foreign capital and promote investment, but the political environment in many countries is one of constant change, some of it potentially harmful to business operations. The global financial crisis has also created an environment with a heightened potential for political risk events to take place.

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Central Business District's around the world have had to deal with many crises in recent years but little compares to the current goings on in Bangkok's CBD.

With a lively office and retail area turned into a camp for anti-government protestors being the forst stage, the increasingly violent protest and general situation now means many businesses are being directly affected. Director is one of these businesses with our office being out of bounds and much of ourbeing directly affected.

This week the regular social media in business column takes a different slant.

Just like many of the business world in Bangkok, it has succumbed to the ongoing chaos affecting much of the city. The significance of what’s occurring in Bangkok is such that to cover any other topic at this time would be irrelevant to business in Thailand right now.

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Twitter's latest service to be introduced is a business account setting, 'Business Center', currently being tested by handpicked organisations according to technology blog Mashable.

Businesses have begun to see the benefits of a presence on Twitter will facilitates direct communications with customers. Companies like a strong tech footprint, have tended to use the service to answer customers queries, detect and solve problems, monitor the conversation around their brand and industry and get word of announcements and products out. 

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Bangkok’s shopping district’s state of occupation has reduced it to a ghost-town. The hoards of shoppers, gaggles of school children and groups of tourists who using occupy the malls have been replaced with an eerie quiet that is only tumbleweed short of a post-apocalyptic movie scene.
 
This week saw the suffering shopping malls club together to announce a plan (via the Bangkok Post) to install the ‘Emporium Stadium’, “temporary outlets outside their closed malls to allow tenants to display products in clearance sales”.

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