johnnybangkok

He is specifically talking about China - not tariffs for the whole world. Nice try but no cigar.

Grab is profitable https://www.nationthailand.com/business/corporate/40039232 But Lineman isn't, posting a loss of 253 million baht last year.' https://www.bangkokpost.com/business/general/2877297/line-man-wongnai-unveils-marketing-push

From an article on LinkedIn:- After 13 years operating in Thailand, Foodpanda has announced its exit by May 23, 2025. Despite being the first food delivery app available across all 77 provinces, the company consistently struggled financially, accumulating losses of around 13.36 billion baht (approximately $399 million) between 2019 and 2023. Failing to ever make an annual profit. Market dominance remained elusive, with Foodpanda capturing just under 15% of market share, trailing behind strong competitors like Lineman Wongnai (44%) and GrabFood (39.4%). Attempts to find a buyer, including discussions with major players such as Grab and Meituan, ultimately fell through, perhaps sealing their decision to withdraw. Beyond financial struggles, Foodpanda faced significant political and social backlash. A major incident in July 2021, where the company controversially labeled a protesting rider a "terrorist," sparked a widespread boycott under the hashtag hashtag#แบนfoodpanda (hashtag#BanFoodpanda), resulting in around 2 million app deletions and numerous restaurant partnerships dissolving overnight. Additionally, Foodpanda faced labour disputes, notably in Chiang Mai in August 2021, where riders protested sudden pay cuts, further deteriorating public relations and workforce morale. Their aggressive approach, charging high fees to restaurants while heavily discounting to attract consumers, also strained key relationships and drew criticism. Anecdotally, the user base seemed to be pretty much exclusively expats, a tiny fraction of the market in Thailand, with most Thais preferring Lineman or Grab. This was mainly down to Foodpanda having English menus from day one, something Grab didn’t achieve until many years later and still hasn’t fully adopted. However, once their rivals started offering English-language options, a lot of Foodpanda’s loyal customer base moved over. Foodpanda’s exit highlights crucial lessons about navigating a competitive market, appealing to the local demographic, being culturally and politically in tune, and the importance of balancing aggressive growth with long-term sustainability.

Shouldn't be that hard to do especially when you didn't write it yourself and plagiarized it from Nate White. https://medium.com/@LadyEleanorA/nate-white-a-british-writer-penned-the-best-description-of-donald-trump-ive-ever-read-d4209d4903f8

Still going with that “master plan” nonsense I see. Just exactly at what point in the whole “everyone will bend the knee” delusion will you finally admit he is wrong? When inflation hits record heights? When American business start feeling the real affect of his insane policies and start going out of business in droves? When GDP is hit so bad? When the stock market continues to drop or when the bond market tanks? These are all happening right now but yeah, you stick with the “if you dont understand then you’re just not a genius like Trump” approach. It would almost be worth seeing all this just to rub your nose in it but the consequences for the world are just too great and we hope saner minds will eventually prevail.

Because in a world of negativity and antagonism shouldn't we also highlight some of the positives? Maybe it’s not BBC worthy but certainly AN worthy.

You?

And the first 4 posters in this thread have a negative view on what is obviously a nice story. What is wrong with you that you can’t see a nice story for what it is?

And brains shut down.

And was any of that actually agreed IN WRITING by NATO? Politicians can talk ‘till the cows come home with THEIR views on what should/shouldn't happen but unless its agreed in a formal, WRITTEN capacity its the political equivalent of pi$$ing in the wind.

And the other 4 points he brought up? Or are we just going to conveniently ignore those. Let’s start with the “agreement” NATO is supposed to have made to not expand east. You have proof of this?

And since reading isn’t your strong point I suppose subtitles are out.

Nothing like a little Islamaphobia to get the more rabid on this forum throthing at the mouth and talking of a 'Muslim takeover'. From the article 'According to the 2021 census, around 7 percent of Buckinghamshire's population identifies as Muslim — slightly above the national average'. Now I know that maths isn't a strong point for most of you lot but that still leaves 93% that aren't muslim - a number I hope you agree would be sufficient to stop this 'muslim takeover' you all keep cr@pping on about.

And maybe stop being a Putin apologist. A SOVEREIGN country has the right to do whatever they think is best for their country and if Ukraine thought that was with NATO then that's their perogative (and you can perhaps now understand why they would be interested) but you miss a very vital part of this which is NATO hasn't allowed Ukrainian membership for exactly the reasons you give i.e. trying to not provoke Russia. Also, NATO has never agreed to not expand east (perhaps you would care to provide details of the written agreement for this?) and indeed only did so when countries asked them. The majority of this was the late 90's and early 2000's with the only recent ones being Montenegro in 2017 and North Macedonia in 2020. Both Finland and Sweden recently joined as a direct consequence of Russias invasion of Ukraine. If NATO expansion east was the provocation (with nothing in writing and even Russia saying it was an 'oral agreement') then why not do it in 2004 when Bulgaria, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Romania, Slovakia and Slovenia all joined NATO? Or in 2009 when Albania and Croatia joined? This idea that Putin was somehow 'provoked' into invading Ukraine doesn't pass muster as even if they were allowed to joined NATO (which again I'll emphasise they weren't) how does that then mean Russia is under threat? No NATO country has ever promised harm to Russia but in the meantime Russia has invaded Georgia and annexed Crimea and your ascertion of 'the murder of Russian people in Donbass comes with absolutely no evidence other than what Putin conveniently came up with. Putin apologists like yourself all come up with the same nonsense that somehow he was 'provoked' when all evidence is to the contrary. There was no agreement with NATO about expanding east, there was no genocide in Donbass and although there was plenty of talk about Ukraine joining NATO, it never happened and was in fact very unlikely to happen. But with his latest and most egresos agression expect even more countries to seek the security of the NATO umbrella to include Ukraine.................or at least what remains of it.

And you know this how? You conveniently forget that Russia promised Ukraine's its territorial integrity and sovereignty and pledged to respect its borders by signing the Budapest Memorandum on Security Assurances in 1994 in exchange for Ukraines agreement to denuclearize its territory. That as we know now, was bull$hit so how can you know 'Russians have no intention to go into Poland?'