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Interest-free home loans
Published on 10/05/2011
» First come first served, 25 billion baht of home loans free of interest for two years.
Cheaper homes for the rich
Jon Fernquest, Published on 21/09/2011
» Surprising, but true. Expensive new homes benefit from govt scheme, not cheap 2nd-hand homes for middle class and poor.
Research: Business in the driver's seat
Jon Fernquest, Published on 06/06/2012
» Govt R&D has failed so business has to drive research now. Relax regulations to get researchers into companies.
Thailand's sixth satellite?
Jon Fernquest, Published on 31/05/2011
» A company founded by Thaksin Shinawatra is moving ahead with plans to build a sixth satellite "despite receiving no incentives or a concession period extension."
Big changes in taxes possible
Jon Fernquest, Published on 03/10/2011
» 150,000 to 250,000 baht change in untaxed income. Of 9 million taxpayers only 18,000 in highest 37% bracket.
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.
Korean Investment: 12 billion baht
Jon Fernquest, Published on 27/03/2012
» Thai govt roadshow attracts investment from line-up of Korea's top companies & SMEs: electronics, electrical appliances, even solar power & electricity from garbage.
How the poor never get cheap medicine
Jon Fernquest, Published on 06/09/2011
» 1,960 out of 2,034 Thai patents in last 10 years, large foreign companies working to keep medicine expensive for longer & profits high.
3G auctions: How to benefit consumers
Jon Fernquest, Published on 24/10/2012
» Safety for foreign telecoms investors needed for more competitive mobile phone industry. Limits on mobile phone rates needed now.
Wave of investment money likely heading towards Asia and Thailand from US
Jon Fernquest, Published on 28/10/2010
» The US is deeply mired in a sluggish economy with high levels of unemployment. US policy to get its economy moving again may affect Asia.