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Party-hard Thailand is going after rehab tourists

Thailand's warm climate and relatively cheap food and lodging makes it a prime destination for those seeking alcohol or drug recovery at hospitals or rehab centres

Where Big Oil fears to tread: only 9 in fray for first rounds of auctions

Persisting policy uncertainty keeps major global players away from participating in oil and gas blocks, despite a new, modified exploration policy

Newsmaker: Walmart President Doug McMillon, the out of the box thinker

The informal chief of the world's largest retailer, which just bought Flipkart, has been making an energetic transition to e-commerce in the past few years

Digital advertising industry: Inside the brotherhood of Pi-hole ad blockers

Most ad blockers have to be installed on individual devices and work only in web browsers, but Pi-hole blocks ads across an entire network, including in most apps

Chocks-on at take-off: Why airline yields are in a tailspin despite boom

Domestic airlines are seeing unprecedented market growth, but rising fuel prices, weakening currency may make it tough for them to maximise gains

Macros, stable tax structure make India key PE destination: KKR India head

Sanjay Nayar, who heads KKR India, says the macro economic environment and stable tax structures make this country a prime destination

GIC digs deeper into Indian realty; invests Rs 126 bn in 8 months

GIC entered Indian real estate in 2005, when it did a deal with residential developer XS Real, a Chennai-based developer

Google eases tech stress with app controls, booking assistant

Google showed how its email programme can suggest sentences and how Google Assistant can call a salon

Sports channels play the regional game as IPL season draws on

Star, Sony and Doordarshan are tweaking programmes and focusing on localisation to widen the audience and revenue base

'Facebook effect' turns Swedish steel town into tech hot-spot

The expansion will make it one of the largest data centers in the world, said Node Pole, an investment hub, partly owned by utility Vattenfall

What Europe's tough new data law means for you, and the internet

Supporters of the law say it will bring sweeping changes to how companies operate online, but in reality, the effect on your internet experience will be minimal

Karnataka Assembly polls: NDA's farm schemes face testing times

Studies reveal flaws that limit the potential of the govt's signature agrarian programmes to transform farm livelihoods

Newsmaker: Sitaram Yechury is rekindling CPI(M) from degeneration

Yechury could play the role Harkishan Singh Surjeet had played in 1996 and 2004 to unify the opposition

Pirate radio stations explode on YouTube

The boys stumbled upon a new strategy, one that, in the past two years, has helped a certain kind of YouTube channel achieve widespread popularity

Multiples Alternate Asset Management hones its micro-winner strategy

Founder Renuka Ramnath details her road map as she embarks on raising her third $1.1 billion fund, which she expects to close in the next three to four months

Prem Watsa's Fairfax India sits on unrealised gains with 28% RoE in 2017

Prem Watsa's investment firm earned a return on equity of 28.2 % in 2017, riding on three listed companies

Tomorrow's jobs require impressing a bot with quick thinking

When companies recruit new workers, particularly for entry-level jobs, they are not necessarily looking for knowledge of certain software

Readying for the 5G leap forward: Why India lags behind in the technology

Full 5G services in the country is possible only by 2023; in comparison, US, China and South Korea are rolling it out this year

Steel industry stares at a speed bump with inadequate rail and road infra

Industry is worried inadequate rail and road infra will not allow to swiftly despatch finished products to consumption centres or receive raw material from mines once new capacity comes on stream

Adidas and Nike have a new rival on the soccer pitch

While Nike and Adidas design and market soccer gear, they seldom make it