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Thailand concerned over high speed rail project delays
Thailand’s leaders say they’re concerned delays of the high speed rail link between Thailand and Laos via China could continue, after the Laos side placed the project on hold over Chinese involvement. Speaking at a Thai and Laos cabinet meeting last week, Thailand Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra said his cabinet has convened with Lao’s government about the delay, and ...
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Four arrested for hotel blast in southern Thailand
Four suspects were arrested yesterday in connection with an explosion at a Narathiwat hotel in the morning that left six people injured. The bombing took place at around 11am at Asia Hotel, in Sungai Kolok district of the southernmost Muslim-majority province. Room Nos 306 and 307 on the third floor of the hotel were severely damaged. The impact of the explosion brought down the ceilings of ...
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Red-shirts mass rally held in capital of Thailand
Thousands of supporters of the United Front for Democracy against the Dictatorship (UDD), or the Red shirts, rally to commemorate the third anniversary of the military crackdown on the anti-government protesters in the main shopping district of Bangkok, capital of Thailand, May 19, 2013. (Xinhua/Gao ...
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Thai PM has no plan to reshuffle Cabinet
PM secretary-general Suranand Vejjajiva yesterday dismissed media reports that Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra is planning a Cabinet reshuffle. Red-shirt leaders Jatuporn Prompan, Apiwan Wiriyachai and Pakorn Buranupakorn were reported to be likely appointments as ministers in the next Cabinet reshuffle expected early next month, according to a source from the ruling Pheu Thai Party. ...
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China in Thailand Skal President researches the phenomenal growth first hand
SHANGHAI, China - It has taken almost no time, but it was anticipated by many - China has become the number one source market for many Southeast Asian countries including Thailand. In my capacity as a former hotelier, a new travel agent, a journalist, and National President of SKAL International-Thailand, I had the opportunity to visit Shanghai and Nanjing, to experience first-hand China's ...
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26000 reds recall bloodshed
bangkokpost.com/multimedia "Let the innocent people be exonerated. There is no problem if red-shirt leaders and I are not included [in the amnesty bill]," Thaksin told about 26,000 red shirt demonstrators. Red shirts turned out in force at the Ratchaprasong intersection Sunday to remember the Democrat government's crackdown on their protest three years ago. While lawmakers were ...
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Heads of state arrive as protests kick in
CHIANG MAI As heads of state gathered yesterday to attend a summit on water management, grassroot groups held a parallel forum to criticise the failures in water management projects by governments around the ...
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PM pitches tri-nation rail talks
Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra, her Lao counterpart Thongsing Thammavong, fourth from left, and their respective cabinet members hold hands as they attend the 2nd Joint Cabinet Retreat in Chiang Mai yesterday. (GOVERNMENT PHOTO) The offer, tabled in talks between the Thai and Lao cabinets yesterday, underlines Thailand's concern about a delay to the project on the Lao side. Ms ...
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Banks dollar borrowing eyed
The Finance Ministry has blamed local commercial banks' offshore borrowing at low interest rates to be lent locally as a factor accelerating the baht's ...
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Bonny targets stylish travellers for its luggage brands
Bandhit: Luxury luggage has high potential Bonny International Co, one of the country's top five leather goods and luggage manufacturers, has spotted the trend. It began by relaunching Zero Halliburton in Thailand last month. The premium luggage is used by billionaire Bill Gates, socialite Paris Hilton and Japanese footballer Shinji Kagawa, who plays for Manchester United. Bonny will ...
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TOT inches closer to funding deal
Japanese telecom firms SoftBank and the Sumitomo Group have essentially committed to providing financial assistance to TOT Plc during the second phase of its third-generation (3G) mobile network expansion. Both firms showed intent to provide soft loans to the state telecom enterprise in exchange for a joint venture stake in TOT. Yongyuth Wattanasin, TOT's chief executive, said his company ...
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Coaching A CEO To Be A Better Coach
'Coach Kriengsak, how was lunch?" Virat asks me. "Delicious, thanks very much, I really enjoyed it. What can I do for you today?" I ask, knowing there's no such a thing as a free lunch. "I want to learn from you how to coach my team better. I notice two of my subordinates on our top leadership team have shown significant improvement since you've been coaching ...
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RHB may raise capital for Thai expansion
RHB Bank Bhd Thailand, the local unit of Malaysia's fourth-largest bank, may increase capital to support its aggressive expansion plan. RHB remains keen on asset acquisition in the Thai financial market as well. Country head Thiti Musuwan said the bank's Bangkok branch has paid-up capital of 2 billion baht and will likely raise the capital base to serve this year's growth ...
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New revenue systems track tax dodgers
The Revenue Department will adopt cash-receipt and tax-invoice matching systems early next year to raise the government's revenue collection by 300 billion baht a year, says Jitmanee Suwannapool, the principal adviser on tax base management. The cash-receipt system is a programme through which cash purchases in some business such as beauty clinics and restaurants are tracked by the Revenue ...
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Mc Jeans makers IPO all sewn up
Mc Group Plc, the maker of Mc jeans, expects to mobilise 2-3 billion baht from its listing on the Stock Exchange of Thailand (SET) by the end of next month to fund its ...
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MSCI adds 20 Thai stocks
MSCI will add 20 Thai securities to MSCI Global Small Cap Indices, the highest number among Asean markets, starting June 1. Of the total 20 stocks, 19 are listed on the Stock Exchange of Thailand (SET) and the other one on the Market for Alternative Investment (MAI), said Chanitr Charnchainarong, an SET executive vice-president and MAI president. The 20 stocks had a combined 403 billion baht ...
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Lin Ping signed to new contract
Lin Ping is all grown up now but remains a star. A deal has been made to keep her and her future mate for another 15 years. THITI WANNAMONTHA After that, the bear will be in the country for five more months before leaving for China to find her mate. Beijing believes Lin Ping could get her companion within a year, after which the couple will return to Thailand for the next 15 years under a new ...
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GPO chiefs axing not political
Board's probe was thorough, chairman says Pipat Yingseree, chairman of the Government Pharmaceutical Organisation, yesterday denied that politics was behind the sacking of Dr Witit Artavatkun as the GPO's managing director. "The GPO board has issued a unanimous resolution to dismiss him based solely on his dereliction of duty," he said. If Witit felt the move was ...
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Thai Lao cabinets end second joint meeting
A government handout photo shows Thai Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra, right, shaking hands with Lao Prime Minister Thongsing Thammavong during the second Thai-Lao Joint Cabinetmeeting in Chiang Mai ...
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Assistant teachers to be fired in cheating scandal
Six newly appointed assistant teachers in Nakhon Ratchasima accused of being involved in exam cheating will be dismissed - while the Department of Special Investigation (DSI) has called for an ultimate total of 344 people allegedly involved in the scandal to lose their jobs as government ...
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Framework for Bangkoks development
Bangkok has never stayed the same. And if a city plan can be a good indicator, the new face of the Thai capital is already taking shape. Bangkok's latest city plan, which came into effect last Thursday, shows "sub-cities" set to mushroom across many suburban zones. It has also identified the location of planned garbage plants and wastewater-treatment plants in a way that city ...
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Students vow not to cheat
Administrators and students at 27 universities vowed zero tolerance yesterday on "cheating" and declared their readiness to support national anti-graft campaigns. Together they signed a pledge during the launch of the "Thai students not cheating" campaign at Thammasat University's outdoor stadium. Thammasat rector Somkid Lertpaitoon likens the campaign to vaccination. ...
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Scholarships for study in Italy
The Italian Government is offering scholarships for the 2013/2014 academic year to Thai candidates wishing to attend graduate, post-graduate and single courses, as well as conduct research activities, at any legally recognised Italian universities and high education institutions. Study courses include, but is not limited to the following fields: language and literature, physics, information ...
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Nostalgia for an old style sixty years on
Chachoengsao school continues its child-centred, integrated system of learning Child-centred and integrated learning is not at all something new to Thai education. Indeed, Thailand has had students learning in this way for more than 60 years. A school in Chachoengsao is good evidence that continuous implementation of this style of learning has brought about unexpected success. However, ...
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Tenth school joins German Pasch network
Mahidol Wittayanusorn School in Nakhon Pathom has become part of the exclusive German network "Schools: Partners for the Future" (Pasch). There are 10 schools in Thailand in this prestigious network, an initiative of the German Federal Foreign Office. It's a global network of some 1,500 schools that place a high value on German language at secondary school level. To commemorate ...
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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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