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Princess graces red cross bazaar
B Magazine, Published on 18/03/2012
» It was a great day for shopping at the recent 45th Diplomatic Red Cross Bazaar 2012, co-hosted by wives of diplomats serving in Thailand and the Thai Red Cross Society at the Royal Paragon Hall, on the fifth floor of Siam Paragon.
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Govt 'holds vulnerable underwater to keep big business afloat'
Spectrum, Supara Janchitfah, Published on 18/03/2012
» Those whose homes and farms were ravaged by last year's floods are fuming over government compensation plans that they say unfairly favour big business at their expense. About 2.23 billion baht will go to build a 77km floodwall around Rojana Industrial Park and 728 million baht and 700 million baht, respectively, has been earmarked to build floodwalls around Bang Pa-in and Nava Nakorn industrial estates. Many of society's most vulnerable who lost nearly everything in the floods _ including labourers, small farmers, slum dwellers and home-based workers _ are entitled to a mere 5,000 baht in compensation.
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Dawei feeling pains of development and displacement
Spectrum, Published on 18/03/2012
» Thi Cho had been having sleepless nights since a small fishing community not far from her home was relocated a week earlier to make way for the multi-billion-baht Dawei development project.
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Phuket looks beyond wealthy westerners
Spectrum, Published on 18/03/2012
» Phuket in recent years has become known as the playground of the West's rich and famous, attracting pop stars, celebrities, supermodels and run-of-the-mill millionaires. Some of these visitors spend time checking out property in the area, which spawned a healthy market for villas costing 30 million baht or more.
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Comfortable pension or complete nightmare?
Spectrum, Andrew Wood, Published on 18/03/2012
» Continuing our look at your financial journey through life, let's look at how to to use your wealth to your best advantage when you get older and finally decide to retire.
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TAXES IN THAILAND Part XIII: Who pays _ part 2
Spectrum, Published on 18/03/2012
» This week we will continue with our series on what income is taxed in Thailand. Dr Joseph Kildare is an orthopaedic surgeon practising in Los Angeles. He is on holiday in Phuket, staying at a hotel on the beach.
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PM pledges to ease price pressure on consumers
News, Post Reporters, Published on 18/03/2012
» Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra Saturday tried to alleviate fears of high prices for food and consumer products, promising the economic situation will turn around in June.
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Thailand's third richest man, Chaleo, dies at 89
News, Published on 18/03/2012
» Chaleo Yoovidhya, the founder of the renowned energy drink Red Bull, or Krating Daeng in Thai, and one of the nation's richest men, died at Chulalongkorn Hospital yesterday. He was 89.
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Amorn's healthy dose of obstinacy improves the lives of millions of Thais
News, Apiradee Treerutkuarkul, Published on 18/03/2012
» Former public health permanent secretary Amorn Nondasuta is the pioneer and driving force behind the community health volunteers initiative which he began three decades ago. Today there are over one million health volunteers in communities around the country. At the age of 72, he is still actively involved in primary healthcare development in rural areas.
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Student killed, 4 hurt, In bomb blast
News, Published on 18/03/2012
» A senior female Muslim student was killed and four others, including her sister, were wounded in a bomb explosion in Pattani's Yarang district yesterday.
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