BANGKOK, 31 January 2011 (NNT) – Bangkok Bank is certain the Thai economy will expand by as much as 5% this year although the fluctuation of the world economy could still weigh down the forecast growth. Executive Vice President of Bangkok Bank Public Company Limited Dr Kobsak Pootrakool said Thailand’s economic growth should continue if […]
BANGKOK, 29 January 2012 – The government of Thailand is determined to eradicate illegal drug business in the country as much as possible within a year’s time while preparing to open a special prison for drug-related convicts. Deputy Prime Minister, Police Captain Chalerm Yubumrung, said during the weekly ‘Yingluck government meets people’ on Saturday, that […]
DAVOS, Switzerland, Jan 28 – Thai Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra has convinced international business leaders that Thailand has prepared plans to prevent future flood crises and that the country has potential to be centre of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) ready to offer investment privileges. Ms Yingluck was attending the 42th annual World […]
Google Thailand is helping Thai small business operators do business online. The Office of Small and Medium Enterprises Promotion (Osmep) plans to conduct business training courses and provide financial support to SMEs this year. The plan is aimed at producing new entrepreneurs and strengthening SMEs ahead of Asean’s integration in 2015. Read more: Bangkok Post
Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra has met with Thai businesspeople in the Indian capital and is due to hold talks with India’s Prime Minister to expand cooperation in trade and investment between the two countries. The Thai prime minister and her delegation met the Thai business community in India at the Taj Palace Hotel on Wednesday […]
BANGKOK, 23 January 2012 (NNT) – The Democrat Party is challenging Mrs. Nalinee Taveensin, the new Minister to the Prime Minister’s Office, to publicly condemn the U.S. for blacklisting her in order to prove the matter as inaccurate. According to the report, Mrs. Nalinee has been on the U.S blacklist for her business affiliations with […]
The Yingluck II Cabinet, announced yesterday evening, was immediately rocked by a controversy after new face Nalinee Taveesin, who was appointed PM’s Office minister, was exposed as being on a United States blacklist due to her alleged business connections with Zimbabwe. Nalinee’s name was on the US blacklist of “cronies” of the much-abhorred Zimbabwean regime. […]
Department of Special Investigation (DSI) chief Tharit Pengdit said yesterday his office would crack down on foreigners using Thais as nominees to buy land and run businesses from which they are legally excluded, while his deputy Narat Sawettanan said 536 websites had been shut down since December 13 for allegedly having lese majeste content. Tharit […]
