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To subscribe to the magazine, click here . Their fervour for the Web and e-commerce is sowing the seeds of a new economic miracle, one that could loosen the stranglehold big business has on the economy and steer capital to a new breed of entrepreneurs. Fuelled by an army of day traders, South Korea's Kosdaq stockmarket has more than kept pace with the country's Internet boom. The Thai parliament has passed a law reinstating the right of workers in state enterprises to form unions and giving them the right to bargain collectively. These labour rights have strengthened the hand of opponents of the government's plan to privatize many state-owned enterprises.