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SET rallies as Yingluck is cleared
Business, Nuntawun Polkuamdee, Published on 05/04/2013
» Thai shares Thursday pared losses after the national anti-graft body cleared Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra of an asset concealment charge, but mounting tensions on the Korean peninsula and disappointing US economic data are expected to depress the market further.
SET dives on political instability
Published on 04/04/2013
» Thai capital markets dropped more sharply than other Asian markets Thursday amid concerns about looming political instability, the possibility of war between North Korea and South Korea and local measures to control a property bubble.
Trade watch over Korean crisis
Phusadee Arunmas, Published on 02/04/2013
» Trade officials are closely monitoring rising tensions on the Korean peninsula, amid concern the crisis could affect Thai trade with Seoul and Pyongyang.
ATTA chief pledges to tackle crisis
Business, Chadamas Chinmaneevong, Published on 29/03/2013
» Sisdivachr Cheewarattanaporn was yesterday re-elected president of the Association of Thai Travel Agents (ATTA) for another two-year term and vowed to solve lingering problems facing the travel industry.
Seoul mates
Asia focus, Published on 25/03/2013
» Thailand has had a love affair with all things Korean for the past few years, and visitors from South Korea have been reciprocating, visiting the country in ever-growing numbers.
Posco girds for $600m outlay
Business, Nareerat Wiriyapong, Published on 25/03/2013
» Posco, South Korea's largest steelmaker, plans to strengthen its presence in Southeast Asia's growing automotive industry by spending US$600 million to build new galvanising plants in Thailand and Indonesia.
Authorities play it cool
Business, Parista Yuthamanop, Published on 22/03/2013
» The Bank of Thailand and the Finance Ministry have shown great tolerance for the surge in the baht, which yesterday touched 29.09 to the US dollar, yet another post-1997 high.
Korean firm keen to buy into CTH
Business, Published on 18/03/2013
» A South Korean telecom will likely buy a 20% stake in Cable Thai Holding (CTH) at market value, which is said to have jumped 50 times from last year.
Tourism firms cry foul over Russian rivals
News, King-oua Laohong, Published on 11/03/2013
» Local tourism operators in Phuket are unhappy with competition posed by Russian rivals.
The challenges of capital inflows
Asia focus, Published on 04/03/2013
» Over the past 20 years, emerging market economies have experienced three large waves of net capital inflows. The first wave of net capital inflows started in the early 1990s and concluded with the Asian financial crisis in 1997.