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EABC Weekly E-News 2019 12th Edition

UPCOMING EVENTS

 

15 May
 




 
 

PARTNER & MEMBER EVENTS

 

8 May



 


13-14 May



 

15 May



 

16 May



 

30 May




 

MEMBER NEWS

STEVIE® AWARDS, THE GLOBAL AWARDS, THE PRIDE OF DHL EXPRESS

With the commitment of DHL Express to provide international express delivery services with excellent quality standards in all parts of the service, and training for service development of call center in order to impress customers for the most throughout 45 years, from this effort, DHL Express was honored to stand on the 13th Stevie® stage of the year 2019 in Las Vegas, Nevada, USA on February 22, 2019, along with receiving global awards in terms of excellent service with the highest honor, Grand Stevie and more than 11 service-minded awards. Among these, DHL Express Call Center Thailand has won the Bronze Stevie in the Contact Center of the Year category (Capacity over 100 Seat) for the 5th consecutive time. 
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NEWS CORNER

EABC MEMBERSHIP DIRECTORY 2019 IS NOW AVAILABLE!!


We are happy to announce the Membership Directory 2019 has now been published and ready to be picked-up! Members can retrieve it at our AGM event or request it to be sent via postal service to your preferred address (*kindly notify us at your earliest convenience).
Membership Directory 2019 is also available to download in PDF version here

 

EABC ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING


Sponsored by: 
 

Event: “EABC AGM 2019”
Date: 15 May 2019
Time: 17.00 – 20.30 hrs (tentatively)
Venue: Ballroom II, Sheraton Grande Sukhumvit, a Luxury Collection Hotel

As a valuable member of our community, we would like to invite our dear members to be a part of our Annual General Meeting 2019 on 15th May.  

We are looking for local businesses and organizations to help us make this event truly special for our community.  As a trusted organization in the community, your involvement would help highlight the importance of recognizing European businesses in Thailand for all that they do and supporting their work from the community level all the way to the national level.

Such special events like this can provide the encouragement to continue to keep our community healthy, and can show our national leaders how important the contributions of our businesses are. 


All of our valued members, please confirm your rsvp at the following link;
https://eabcagm2019.app.rsvpify.com/

For your kind consideration, download
AGM Contribution Reply Form
 

 

ADVERTISEMENT OPPORTUNITY POSITION PAPER 2019


This Paper is a resource for the Royal Thai Government’s regulators and policymakers to learn about the issues and to find the best approach, our contribution to improve Thailand’s competitiveness for the mutual benefit of the two economies, and for long‐term European investment in Thailand. The Position Paper also plays an important role in the meeting with the European Embassies and the Bilateral Chambers of Commerce.

Advertisements will be included in this Position Paper which again will be a book. This is an excellent opportunity to make a company known directly to high level officials in the Thai government.

The Position Paper 2019 Launch Event is scheduled tentatively in Mid June.

 


GUILLOTINE PROJECT

The Guillotine Project is a fast track way of reviewing laws and regulations and removing unnecessary or unwanted laws and regulations, or revising them, according to a process.
Please do submit proposals for change or removal of any laws or regulations which are about licences or permits of any kind.

Some 1,000 issues, regulations or laws are expected to processed by May 2019. The first batch of 370 of these can be viewed on the ‘Simple and Smart License’ site
www.sslicense.go.th/th/page/item/index/id/1

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Please do provide Stakeholder input in the way the issues are proposed to be addressed at www.sslicense.go.th/th/page/item/index/id/1

For more information – see EABC website
 

NEWS AROUND THE WORLD


AEROFLOT PLANE CRASH: RUSSIA JET 'STRUCK BY LIGHTNING'
May 6, 2019
Passengers and crew on board a jet that was forced to make an emergency landing at a Moscow airport say it was struck by lightning moments before it crashed.
Reports of the strike came as survivors told how they escaped the Aeroflot jet which burst into flames on landing at Sheremetyevo airport on Sunday.
Forty-one of the 78 people on board were killed in the accident.
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US BLAMES 'EROSION OF COMMITMENTS' FOR CHINA TRADE WAR ESCALATION
 
The United States has blamed an "erosion of commitments" by China for a threatened escalation in their trade war. A deal to end the US-inspired conflict had thought to be close but for an announcement on Sunday by President Donald Trump that tariffs on $200bn (£152bn) of Chinese goods were to go up from 10% to 25% from Friday.

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ADVOCACY TOPICS


Click at icons below to see some of the works from our current 12 advocacy working groups on our website.
 
Healthcare & Pharmaceutical Digital Economy/ICT

 

DID YOU KNOW?


THE REBELLION AGAINST CHINA’S 996 CULTURE
That number means 9 a.m. to 9 p.m., six days a week, and is shorthand for the punishing schedule Chinese workers are expected to maintain. A 72-hour workweek with little time for anything else: No family time. No time to meet friends. No hobbies. Not even time to cook proper meals. Once you account for sleeping and commuting, one might wonder how ambitious tech workers fit in the rest of their lives. Is this the price it takes to get ahead in the booming Chinese economy, or is this a symptom of a hustle culture that has gotten way out of hand?

Nobody can doubt that Jack Ma is successful. As a co-founder of Alibaba, one of the world’s largest e-commerce companies, Ma has an estimated net worth of around $40 billion and often makes lists of the world’s most powerful people. However, his recent comments on the company’s WeChat account about 996 working culture—increasingly prevalent in China—have sparked outrage. “If you don’t work 996 when you are young, when can you ever work 996? In this world, everyone wants success, wants a nice life, wants to be respected. Let me ask everyone, if you don’t put out more time and energy than others, how can you achieve the success you want?”, Ma said.

A website recently went live at 996.ICU, believed to have been created by protesting Chinese tech workers. The website is hosted on GitHub and was created by an anonymous user who joined the site on March 25. The name 996.ICU refers to the phrase “work by 996, sick in Intensive Care Unit,” which succinctly describes how the 72-hour-per-week working culture touted by Chinese tech giants is not a recipe for sustainable success, but for burnout and serious health problems.


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