Labels:text | clothing | dress | woman | human face | screenshot | newspaper | person OCR: FASHION rapid growth can be attributed to the reputation that Thailand has developed over the years as a centre for cutting and producing coloured stones, particu- larly the rubies and sapphires that are indigenous to this region. "With other gemstones, we already have highly skilled cutters, traders, wholesalers, etc," says Viroj Phonprakit, managing director of Jubilee Diamonds. "This made people interested to invest in diamonds as well; with everything in place, in one O trip you can deal with all the [gemstone] businesses." THE THAI Having the basic set-up in WORKERSARE place is only HIGHLY SKILLED half the equation though. One critical factor lies in CRAFTSMEN, the quality of the Thai workers themselves, oft EXTREMELY cited as being highly skilled craftsmen, extremely DILIGENT AND diligent and disciplined and, for all that, among the DISCIPLINED cheapest labour in the world. In anticipation of accelerated growth, infrastruc-
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