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December 2025

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Africa, Blog, Home-Based Workers' Stories
December 2, 2025

By Barbara Sibbald While many businesses floundered during the COVID pandemic, a Thai home-based fishing net business went online to capture new customers.  Being home-based, they worked under a roof outdoors and could easily space several meters apart. Jobs are still coming in.  “We’ve never stopped working,” said Nuchnapha Bamrungna, owner of the five-person Aum Mahn Baan...

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Blog, Home-Based Workers' Stories, South East Asia
December 2, 2025

By Barbara Sibbald They don’t exactly meet the designated requirements, but there can be no doubting the success of the OTOP shop in picturesque Phayao, Thailand. OTOP, or One Tambon One Products, is a Thai government program launched in 2001 which was inspired by Japan’s One Village, One Product initiative. It supports local economies by encouraging communities...