Category: Thailand
Thailand now aiming for F1 race in 2015
Thailand expects to host a floodlit Formula One Grand Prix in Bangkok in 2015 after plans were pushed back a year, the governor of the national sports authority said on [...]
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Black Mountain named best golf course in Thailand
Thailand and Hua Hin are riding high as pre-eminent golf tourism destinations in the Asia-Pacific. Thailand was last week named the “Best Golf Destination” at the [...]
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Thailand makes, exports record number of vehicles in November
Floods disrupted the operations of a number of vehicle manufacturers which brought figures down in the fourth quarter of last year and first quarter of this. Manufacturers [...]
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Thailand to extradite Italian accused of mob ties
A Thai court on Thursday ordered the extradition of a fugitive Italian banker found guilty of laundering money for some of Italy’s top mobsters through New York [...]
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Anwell enters contract to build solar power plant in Thailand
Anwell Technologies announced that its wholly-owned subsidiaries, Sungen International and Sungen (Thailand), have entered into a contract with an independent investor to [...]
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BTS rides high with IPO plan
Riding Bangkok’s elevated rapid transit railway service known as the ‘Skytrain’ makes New York’s Subway and London’s Underground feel [...]
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Thailand to deport Mafia money-launderer
The Italian Embassy said a Bangkok court ordered an Italian financier convicted of being a money-launderer for the Mafia to be extradited to Italy. ANSA said Vito Roberto [...]
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Dell to up Thailand investment by 50pct
PC maker Dell will increase investment in its Thailand operations by 50 percent over the next three years, as it looks to raise its profile in the country’s computer [...]
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Thailand, Burma want Japan in port project
Thailand and Myanmar yesterday proposed involving a third party – possibly Japan – in joint development of the Dawei Special Economic Zone, construction of which [...]
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VietJet Air to enter Bangkok in February
VietJet Air, Vietnam’s low-cost carrier (LCC), will start descending to Bangkok in early 2013 to break the monopoly on budget air travel between Thailand and Vietnam [...]
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Govts vow to front Dawei funds
The Thai and Myanmar governments agreed to raise funds to finance the development of the massive Dawei deep-sea port and special economic zone project during a key meeting in [...]
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Rice shippers mulling drastic measures
Costly Thai rice is expected to prompt more Thai exporters to procure and sell rice from overseas in lieu of Thai grains, or even relocate their milling base to neighbouring [...]
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Thai Airways to pay $7.5m in penalties for price fixing
The Federal Court in Sydney has ordered Thai Airways International Public Company to pay $7.5 million in penalties for engaging in cartel conduct in breach of the Trade [...]
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Thailand ‘top rice exporter’ again
Thailand is set to be the world’s biggest rice exporter again this crop year, the Office of Agricultural Economics (OAE) said on Monday. The country may harvest a [...]
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Rights group denounces Thai teachers’ slayings
A major international human rights organisation called Monday for an immediate end to violence against school personnel in Thailand’s insurgency-wracked southern [...]
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