Thailand’s ‘salesman’ PM travels to court investments

Ready for business: A file picture showing Srettha arriving in China to meet investors. He says his proactive economic diplomacy is crucial to lay the foundation for medium-term and long-term growth in the country and incentivise trade deals as well as foreign investment. — Reuters

Srettha Thavisin, a former property tycoon turned prime minister, has spent the two months he’s been in office focused on turning around Thailand’s below-par economic performance.

To get the nation – crawling at an average growth rate of 1.87% for the last 10 years – running as fast as its peers, he’s chosen to break conventional norms.