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    All financial roads lead to ratchadaphisek

    Spectrum, Published on 19/02/2012

    » Ratchadaphisek Road stands to become the future financial district of Bangkok. The road will be home to the AIA Capital Centre, a 35-storey commercial office building, and the Stock Exchange of Thailand's new office, which will form an integral part of the country's first financial hub.

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    Give property a home in your portfolio

    Spectrum, Andrew Wood, Published on 19/02/2012

    » To achieve and maintain a successful financial plan, it is essential that you continue to diversify your asset classes throughout your lifetime. One of the most common and favourable ways to do this is by entering the property.

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    TAXES IN THAILAND Part X: Credits _ part one

    Spectrum, Published on 19/02/2012

    » Last week, we calculated the tax for a fictional taxpayer. But that's not the end of the story. There may be ways to reduce the amount of tax due even after the basic amount is calculated, by subtracting items after the total amount of tax due is calculated. Items subtracted are called credits because the taxpayer is being credited because he or she has already paid them.

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    Are zoos cashing in on tiger trade?

    Spectrum, Tunya Sukpanich, Published on 26/02/2012

    » Trade and trafficking in tigers and tiger parts in Thailand drew international attention following the seizure of 400kg of tiger meat and carcasses in Bangkok's Khlong Sam Wa district earlier this month. It's remained a thorny issue in Thailand despite global efforts to save the animals from extinction.

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    Bringing hearts and Seoul to Thailand

    Spectrum, Ezra Kyrill Erker, Published on 26/02/2012

    » When 54 South Korean teachers arrived in Thailand on Sept 28 last year, their culture shock was compounded by the flooding disaster under way then. Many of the teachers, here on a government sponsored exchange programme, saw their classes postponed and some were left to wonder just what they were doing here. Called "volunteer" teachers by the Thai government, they are in fact paid instructors on wages equivalent to those of Thai junior teachers _ around 10,000 baht a month.

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    No easy answer to who lit fuse in bomb attacks

    Spectrum, Published on 26/02/2012

    » Since the bomb blasts earlier this month which struck Bangkok and New Delhi, and a failed attack in the Georgian capital Tbilisi, confusion over events on the ground has been compounded by a predictable war of words between Iran, widely viewed as behind the attacks, and its arch-enemy Israel, the apparent target.

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    The downside of hotel oversupply

    Spectrum, Published on 26/02/2012

    » Those living in Bangkok will surely notice that there is a new hotel opening almost every month on average. Many may wonder why the city's hotel supply keeps growing given the frequent talk of oversupply, without any signs of slowing down. As of the third quarter of last year, there were a total of 30,815 hotel rooms in downtown Bangkok and a further 8,664 rooms in the pipeline to be completed by 2014, representing a 28% increase in existing supply.

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    The dynamics of portfolio diversification

    Spectrum, Andrew Wood, Published on 26/02/2012

    » In this current series of articles relating to lifetime financial planning, we have covered the mechanics of wealth creation, asset protection and ongoing management approaches to create financial reserves that will give us total financial freedom.

  • THAILAND

    TAXES IN THAILAND Part VI: Calculation of assessable income _ an example

    Spectrum, Published on 26/02/2012

    » This week we're going to use an example to illustrate how taxable income is calculated.

  • THAILAND

    Myanmar's rising drug trade

    Spectrum, Phil Thornton, Published on 12/02/2012

    » Professor Des Ball pushes plates of what is left of a roast duck and barbeque prawn dinner to the side as he spreads a large map across the dinner table and stabs his finger at a point where northern Thailand meets Myanmar.

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