Whats behind the Asean handshake contortion?
In every Asean group photograph, why must all participants cross their arms in front of their chests in order to hold hands with the adjacent person? I think it looks uncomfortable and stupid, as if they are trying to change a light bulb by holding it and turning around. Why don’t they do it the easy way, letting their arms hang down naturally while holding hands? SOMSAK POLA SAMUT PRAKARN How many stock analysts does it take to get it right? Re: “Don’t reduce number of analysts too far, says SAA”, Finance, July 23. This news report explained why the fundamental analysts among the stock brokers in Thailand are so poor in rendering their reports on “a security’s intrinsic value, including macroeconomic factors and individually specific factors”. If one looks back on what they said and compares it with the actual results in the past few years, most were on the wrong track and deserve to be sacked. They love to guess the stock index at each year-end and have been miserably and consistentl