Category: Thailand
Thailand agrees to offer duty-free mkt access of select Bangladesh products
Thailand has agreed to offer duty free market access of selected Bangladeshi products to its market as it seeks to increase bilateral trade and investment, a commerce [...]
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American Born Entrepreneur Becomes Billionaire In Thailand
American born entrepreneur William Heinecke, 64, makes his debut among the world’s billionaires, thanks to a surge in the value of his Minor International hotel and [...]
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Thailand starts phasing out shackles in prisons
Thailand’s government is phasing out the use of shackles in prisons in a move aimed at improving its international human rights standards. Hundreds of inmates convicted [...]
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Thailand restricts use of shackles on some inmates in pilot project to
Thailand has limited the use of shackles on more than 500 prisoners who committed serious crimes in a move to conform to international human rights standards. Prime minister [...]
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Thailand, Bangladesh agree to boost bilateral trade
Enhanced Thai-Bangladeshi cooperation will double the trading volume between the two countries to $1.7 billion in the next three years, Thailand’s commerce minister [...]
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Thailand cuts rice export target – The Star Online
Thai rice exporters have cut a forecast for 2013 exports of the grain to 6.0 million tonnes from 6.5 million, a trade body said, hit by uncompetitive prices caused by a [...]
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PTT to get spot cargo from Yemen
Thailand’s state-owned PTT Pcl (PTT), Southeast Asia’s first importer of liquefied natural gas, is set to get a spot cargo from Yemen at the Map Ta Phut terminal. [...]
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Thailand No. 9 in terror risk
Aon Plc said its latest rankings of all the world’s countries left Thailand with a rating of four out of five on the company’s terrorism risk map. It cited [...]
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Thailand: Rebels Target Children in Southern Conflict
Separatist insurgents in Thailand’s southern border provinces are committing war crimes by targeting children and other civilians, Human Rights Watch said today. The [...]
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The month of May and two bloody political crises in Thailand
Any Thai who marks the anniversaries of the May 1992 “mobile phone mob” uprising and May 2010 red-shirt uprising with the same solemn sincerity should be [...]
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Thailand, Bangladesh to forge closer trade ties
Thailand and Bangladesh plan to forge closer cooperation under the Joint Trade Committee (JTC), meeting this month, aimed at doubling bilateral trade between the two [...]
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Registration process is complicated and expensive, Laotian workers
The majority of Laotians working in Thailand avoid proper registration because they not only find it complicated but too expensive, according to research conducted by Ubon [...]
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Thailand, Burma to sign SPV deal
Thailand and Myanmar will sign a deal on May 27 to set up a special purpose vehicle (SPV) to manage the massive Dawei project for a deep seaport and economic zone, said prime [...]
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Thailand, Mozambique seek to improve ties
Thailand and Mozambique aim to strengthen their ties on trade and investment. After meeting with Commerce minister Boonsong Teriyapirom in Bangkok yesterday, Mozambican [...]
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Thailand to crack down on rerouting of gold to India
Thailand has agreed to retrospectively re-examine rules of origin certificates issued to Indian gold importers after New Delhi said third-country gold was routed through [...]
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