Solid growth in exports, combined with a gradual improvement in domestic demand, has prompted an upward revision of Thailand’s economic growth by the central bank from 3.4% to 3.5% for this year, and to 3.7% in 2018.
Property firms from Japan, Singapore, Hong Kong and mainland China have expanded their investment in Thailand’s property market by focusing on condominium development projects located close to the mass transit system.
Experts warn that repeated failures by planners to predict Melbourne’s massive population growth risks causing shortages of maternity and childcare services in the city’s outer suburbs.
It’s the first time a city has held the title in its own right over that number of wins, according to the Economist Intelligence Unit’s Global Liveability Report 2017.