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Ananda Secures Strong Demand for New Bonds
Published on 11/12/2025
» Strong investor appetite has underscored renewed confidence in Thailand’s urban condominium market, with Ananda Development Public Company Limited (ANAN) successfully issuing two new secured bonds. The offerings—comprising tenors of one year and nine months at 6.90%, and two years and three months at 7.20%, with quarterly interest payments—were made available to institutional and/or high-net-worth investors. Demand exceeded THB 1,500 million, highlighting investors’ trust in Ananda’s solid fundamentals and long-term growth prospects.
Straddling two worlds
Life, Thana Boonlert, Published on 11/12/2025
» When I visited Istanbul for the first time, I learned a joke from Gocke, my local guide, who goes to work by undersea train every day. "But you can't see anything," she laughed. For her, it takes only four minutes to cross from Asia to Europe, under the Bosphorus Strait that divides the ancient city.
Mass transit preferred
Oped, Editorial, Published on 11/12/2025
» The fierce resistance against the idea of turning the Kasetsart tunnel–Ngamwongwan Road–Phong Phet Bridge into part of a double deck expressway should remind the Ministry of Transport to embrace public participation early when it comes to such projects rather than obsessing over the top-down decision-making process.
Narrative challenged
Oped, Postbag, Published on 11/12/2025
» Re: "Thailand's delicate stance with Israel", (Opinion, Dec 9). As a Jew living in Thailand for over 20 years, I must admit I was not happy with what I read. Indeed, found a number of statements to be offensive: The second paragraph implies that Israel's response to the terrorist attack on Oct 7, 2023, was "genocide" -- a term coined in 1944 to describe Hitler's campaign to exterminate all European Jews, and defined as "the intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial, or religious group".