Thailand continues to be one of Southeast Asia’s most attractive destinations for investment and business expansion. With its strategic location, robust infrastructure, and supportive regulatory environment, the country offers significant opportunities for both local and international enterprises. However, navigating the complexities of a foreign market requires more than ambition—it demands insight and preparation. Our Doing Business in Thailand 2025–2026 guide provides a comprehensive overview of the Thai business landscape, covering everything you need to know to establish and grow your operations successfully
Thailand’s newly amended Organic Act on Anti-Corruption (No.2) B.E. 2568 (2025) marks a significant shift in corporate compliance expectations. With expanded whistleblower protections and stricter enforcement mechanisms, companies operating in Thailand must act swiftly to align their internal controls and reporting systems with the new legal landscape.
Thailand stands at a crossroads. Once powered by a young and growing population, the country now faces fewer births, a rising elderly population, and a rapidly shrinking workforce. This is not a distant problem but one already reshaping the economy, society, and future of the nation. The question is not when the demographic crisis will occur, but whether Thailand can adapt quickly enough to survive.
By empowering employees, eliminating waste, and improving processes, organisations can prosper in today’s rapidly changing landscape.
Though ransomware is not new in the cybersecurity space, its implications can have substantial impact on businesses.
Investing in human capital development drives growth as it improves the collective skill, knowledge, and capacity of the organisation’s employees.
International Standards on Auditing are often difficult to apply to less complex entities. The IAASB is considering possible solutions.
Companies must respond to evolving consumer expectations and demands with better supply chain and logistics management. Technology is the solution.
‘Presenteeism’ (the art of being at work but not working) happens in many businesses – it may very well be happening in yours right now.
Teams from Grant Thornton’s Singapore and Thailand firms recently planted 10,000 mangroves as part of their commitment to corporate social responsibility.
This article examines the RCEP trade agreement as it stands in late 2019, while also comparing it to the CPTPP agreement.
A strong finance function can drive innovation and proactively influence real-time strategic decision making, while its commercial insight helps broaden interactive stakeholder engagement and communication.
This article explains why companies might (or might not) choose to go public, how they should prepare for taking such a big step, and what the alternatives might be.
As a new and unpredictable decade dawns, the business world looks forward with its optimism largely intact, according to Grant Thornton’s latest International Business Report (IBR). Leaders in mid-market companies around the world delivered an average optimism score of 59% in H2 2019, a rise of 3% over the first half of the year. This modest improvement is an encouraging contrast to the two consecutive declines that preceded it, although there remains a long way to climb before reaching H1 2018’s high of 69% global optimism.
Whether you’re a sole trader or the CEO of a multinational organisation, we are all constantly seeking ways to do what we do better.
All organisations are grappling with the myriad of employee agreements and obligations that result in a wide variety of payments to their people.
Despite the challenges facing the Thai economy, businesses in Thailand can succeed in 2020 by reducing overheads, conserving cash, improving efficiency of internal structures, and focusing on customer service.
With the economic outlook in Thailand less bright than in years past, we look at how the country can find a new way forward for future business success.
Sustainability is vital to an organisation’s success. Team-building activities are an excellent way to generate ideas for improving sustainability.