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White elephant tests Thailand-Myanmar relations
The Myanmar government has turned down an offer made by Thailand to lease a white elephant for a celebration of the 65th anniversary of diplomatic relations between the two countries. The Thai delegation made the offer on June 13 during the Forum for East Asia-Latin America Cooperation held in Bali, according to an announcement published on the President's Office website on Tuesday. The ...
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Hassan Taib says talks went well
The head of the Barisan Revolusi Nasional (BRN) peace talks delegation has emphasised the need to ensure the success of the peace dialogue in the South but says there are groups from both sides who have different ...
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Travel agent leaves 700 tourists stranded
A group of 700 Vietnamese tourists were left to fend for themselves in Bangkok after a Vietnamese travel agent failed to pay its Thai partner for their transport and hotels. The tourists paid the company to organise their visit to Thailand from June 12 until Tuesday for a two-day Herbalife seminar followed by a tour of Bangkok. They purchased the package from Travel Life, a firm in Ho Chi Minh ...
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Thailand Skal visits South Korea
Skal International (SI) National President for Thailand, Mr. Andrew J. Wood, recently visited Seoul and took the opportunity to meet executives of SI Korea. South Korea successfully hosted the Skal Asian Area Congress in 2009 and the Skal World Congress in 2012. South Korea has 2 Skal Clubs - Incheon and Seoul. Skal International will hold its 74th World Congress in New York this year from ...
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SET index opens up 16.08 pts 1.13 pct
Thai composite stocks index (SET) opened on Wednesday at 1,443.50, up 16.08 points, or 1.13 per cent in line with most regional shares. Blue chip SET-50 index was at 961.64, up 11.11 points, or 1.17 per cent. Top five active (value) stocks: UV, JAS, INTUCH, TIPCO, ADVANC. The ...
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Royal Bangkok in St. Paul serves good food at great prices
Royal Bangkok is hidden in the back of a building full of mostly empty storefronts in a mall of sorts on St. Paul's University Avenue. It looks closed, but numerous signs assured us that it was "Open for Business!" and "Now Open!" We pressed on, and we were glad we did. Royal Bangkok, which replaced Bangkok Thai Deli after it moved into a former Burger King next door, ...
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Exports to advance as pledging prices are cut
Rice shipments from Thailand, the second-biggest exporter, are set to increase as the government reduces the price paid to farmers to rein in spending, according to the Thai Rice Exporters Association. Sales could total 7 million tonnes this year and 8 million tonnes in 2014, said honorary president Chookiat Ophaswongse. His previous forecast for 2013 was 6-6.5 million tonnes. The National Rice ...
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AoT gets screening fee nod
Airports of Thailand Plc (AoT) can charge air passengers for advance passenger processing, under a Civil Aviation Board decision yesterday. The AoT is expected to introduce the system this year and the board has capped the charge at 50 baht per passenger. Voradej Harnprasert, director-general of the Department of Civil Aviation, said the AoT would install an advance passenger processing system ...
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Soonchai tipped for Egat chief
Soonchai: Highest scoring candidate Mr Soonchai, now deputy governor for power plants at Egat, scored the highest among three candidates, according to a report by the selection committee chaired by Kurujit Nakornthap, the deputy energy permanent secretary. The other two candidates for the post are Pongdit Potejana, Egat's deputy governor for corporate social responsibility, and Thana ...
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TCC takes aim at rice secrecy
Businesses are calling on the state to scrap secret sales of rice stocks and return to the common rice auction that generated much lower losses. Isara Vongkusolkit, chairman of the Thai Chamber of Commerce (TCC), yesterday said the government's existing selling practice has proved inefficient. The government itself recently accepted it posted losses of 136 billion baht from rice pledging ...
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Moodys No risk to Thailands rating
Local investors were rattled earlier this month after Moody's Investors Service sounded a warning that the government's rice scheme was "credit-negative" due to high losses and negative effects on Thai rice exports. The Bangkok Post spoke with Moody's analyst Steffen Dyck about the rice pledging policy and Thailand's current credit rating. Moody's earlier this ...
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Sealect will school Thais to eat more fish
Demand for canned fish in the first half of 2013 is expected to be flat, as consumers have set aside money for other goods, particularly cars under the first-time buyer ...
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Ananda looks to Japanese
Ananda Development Plc (ANAN), the SET-listed property developer, has inked a joint venture agreement with Mitsui Fudosan Residential Co, Ltd to develop property projects in Thailand with initial capital of 1.8 billion baht. President and CEO Chanond Ruangkritya said Ananda would hold a 49% stake in the new joint venture firm, with the Japanese company holding the same figure and the remainder ...
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Red Bull heir indictment delayed again
Public prosecutors have postponed for the fourth time an indictment against Red Bull heir Vorayuth Yoovidhya for his alleged hit-and-run killing of a police officer last ...
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Creativity is ...
'Love is", a comic strip by Kim Casali that was popular in the 1970s, discussed different aspects of loving and being loved, using simple messages shared between two lovers. In this column and the next, let's talk about the different aspects of creativity. What is creativity? What does it mean and encompass? How do we know if something is creative? What are the key aspects of ...
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NBTC okays migration draft
Despite legal loopholes, the board of the National Broadcasting and Telecommunications Commission (NBTC) has approved a draft regulation governing the migration plan for networks whose concessions expire in September. Secretary-general Takorn Tantasit said the board yesterday voted 7-2 out of 11 members to approve the draft. Board members Prawit Leesathapornwongsa and Supinya Klangnarong voted ...
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Thailand cuts rice subsidy price after $4.4B loss
BANGKOK -- Thailand will pay farmers 20 percent less for rice to stem losses from a much-criticized subsidy program that dislodged the country from its spot as the world's No. 1 exporter of the grain, a government minister said Wednesday.Cabinet minister Warathep Rattanakorn said the government will pay 12,000 baht ($389) per ton of rice, compared to the current price of 15,000 baht ...
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Myanmar turns down Thai request for white elephant
Myanmar has turned down Foreign Minister Surapong Towichukchaikul's plan to borrow a white elephant from Nay Pyi Taw to display in Chiang Mai zoo. A polite reply from the Myanmar government stated that it would be too difficult to transport the rare albino pachyderm to Thailand. Surapong made the request to his Myanmar counterpart Wunna Maung Lwin during a meeting in Bali last week. The ...
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DSI set to charge two suspects over super car scam
Two men suspected of involvement in the trade of high-end cars that were not properly taxed are expected to surrender to the Department of Special Investigation (DSI) today. Meanwhile, Provincial Police Region 3 has distributed an arrest warrant for a key witness to implicate a gang that brought the luxury cars into Thailand without paying correct taxes. DSI chief Tarit Pengdit reported ...
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Close eye on teens from South in Ramkhamhaeng
Police have stepped up measures to closely monitor teenagers from the South who are living in Bangkok's Ramkhamhaeng area after investigation indicated that southern insurgents might be behind the May 26 bomb attack. A well-informed source from the Metropolitan Police Bureau said all police units in the capital had been ordered to coordinate efforts to monitor areas where students from ...
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Jet-setting monk cant be found
Facebook updates show that Luang Pu Nenkham, who recently got a lot of negative publicity, had participated in praying rites in France on Tuesday. However, Wirod Chaiyapan-nana, director of the Si Sa Ket Buddhism Office, said yesterday the monk could not be contacted. "We will have to summon him." Questions about Luang Pu Nenkham emerged last week after a video clip showing him on a ...
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New curriculum to be tested at 27 demo schools
The Education Ministry is preparing to introduce a new curriculum at 27 demonstration schools in the 2014 academic year that would see major changes in the current curriculum. "We should be able to launch it at other schools in the 2015 academic year," ministry permanent secretary Panita Kambhu na Ayutthaya said yesterday, adding that a panel was developing the new curriculum. ...
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Top insurgents met before attack
It is believed that leading insurgents Aba Jeh-ali, Hubaideelah Romeulee, Karim Yama and Rosali Jehsoh met in Yala's Krong Pinang district ahead of the Tuesday night attack that killed a police officer and wounded seven others, a source said yesterday. The funeral for slain Pol Captain Sama-air Luemaewas was held yesterday morning at a mosque in Raman district. Sama-air, sub-inspector at ...
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NACC to take the reins in GPO scandal
The case against two former top executives of the Government Pharmaceutical Organisation (GPO) has been handed to the National Anti-Corruption Commission. Dr Vitit Uttavachakul, a former director of the GPO, and former GPO chairman Dr Vichai Chokevivat were accused of bidding collusion in the project contract to develop the GPO's mass-production medicine factory. The Cabinet earlier this ...
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Police foil Colombian gang of thieves
Immigration Police yesterday announced the arrest of four Colombian nationals for burglary, and a Chinese man in a separate case of fraud. Immigrant police commander Pol Lt-Gen Panu Kerdlappol said that two Colombian men were alleged gang leader John Jairo Escobar Alonso, 44, and Omar Rodolfo Rodrigez Colorado, 45, while the two Colombian women arrested with the men, were Marisol Forero Guarin, ...
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Bangkok’s reputation under threat
Bangkok has long-been the site of political instability for the country, but this has rarely escalated into full-scale violence, now as talks between government and protests breakdown, and acts of violence increase, the city faces a difficult situation.
There is currently a days-long standoff between the government and anti-government protestors who claim the present government headed by Prime Minister Abhisit Vejajjiva was supported by the military when they came to power fifteen months ago. Read more
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