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Rate increase to limit inflation
Jon Fernquest, Published on 13/01/2011
» Rising raw materials prices and minimum wages are pushing up costs, but price controls and interest rate increases will help limit rising prices.
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Fuel subsidies, low energy efficiency
Jon Fernquest, Published on 03/05/2011
» With diesel fuel subsidized at 18% below market prices, food export revenues are guzzled up by oil imports.
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Eternal youth for 100 year old bank
Jon Fernquest, Published on 12/09/2011
» 100 years old, the Government Savings Bank is becoming young again, helping rural communities, with only 1.1% non-performing loans,
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Suspect arrested for planting homemade bombs in city
Terry Fredrickson, Published on 17/12/2011
» A man was arrested early yesterday for planting six homemade bombs at three spots in eastern Bangkok. The man, a goat farmer, had very little to say at a press conference called by Deputy PM Chalerm Yubamrung.
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California WOW: Slow death for fitness operator?
Jon Fernquest, Published on 26/04/2012
» Years of consumer complaints over broken contracts & below standard services may be ending in bankruptcy court as Bangkok Bank sues.
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Banks show mixed Q1 results
Online Reporters, Published on 18/04/2014
» Ten banks reported operating results for the first quarter of 2013 on Friday.
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Bigger and better
Asia focus, Published on 26/01/2015
» Vietnam's central bank has begun a drive to strengthen the country's weak and inefficient banking sector through mergers and acquisitions that will create fewer but far more stable institutions.
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Bomb probe heads south
News, Published on 11/09/2015
» A police team has been dispatched to Malaysia to work with authorities there to track down the suspected Erawan shrine bomber.
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Cambodia calling
Asia focus, Umesh Pandey, Published on 14/09/2015
» As Thai companies start to see their sales tapering off amid slow domestic consumption, some are reaping the benefits of earlier decisions to enter markets where the risks at times have spooked other investors aware of their chequered history.
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The business of shared Indonesian and Thai history
Life, Published on 05/10/2015
» The story of the life and times of Liem Sioe Liong (1917-2012), one of the most powerful overseas Chinese tycoons of Southeast Asia in the 1980s and 1990s, is a fascinating tale of an impoverished Fujian immigrant who arrived in Indonesia in his twenties. Over the next half century, he rose to achieve extraordinary wealth in Suharto's Indonesia and went on to play pivotal role in supporting Suharto's economic development programme.
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