Latest News in Thailand

Japan Still Likes Thailand for Investment
A study from last year by the Japan Bank for International Cooperation (JBIC) demonstrated that Thailand is fourth on the list of nations most favored by Japanese investors – just behind China, India and Vietnam - Stock Exchange of Thailand (SET) president Pattareeya Benjapolchai announced on Tuesday.
“Japanese investors considered Thailand [...]

Japanese Investors Deny Plans for Sneak Attack on Thai Environment
Certain Japanese investors have verified that they are still ready to increase speculation in Thailand but have asked the government to come up with a clear timeframe for determining the outcome of the Map Ta Phut impasse.
Foreign Minister Kasit Piromya yesterday requested Japanese investors to come [...]

Wanted Yakuza Figure Arrested in Thailand
A Japanese yakuza boss has been detained in Bangkok in for the killing of a rival mob member in Japan.
Thai Immigration police Chief Wuthi Liptapanlop said Anai Kenichi, 41, was the head of the Kato Rengo-kai group, a splinter group of the Sumiyoshi-kai, Japan’s second-largest crime organization which is thought [...]

Slugfest in Japan
Pongsaklek Wonjongkam a Thai boxer is ready to establish himself as a real champion after verifying that he will have a championship bout in Japan.
The 32-year-old Pongsaklek’s extended wait for a title match for the WBC flyweight belt finally looks to be over as he is listed to meet champion Koki Kameda sometime [...]

Obama Announces Asia Tour for November
US President Barack Obama will tour Asia for the first time next month, visiting Japan, Singapore, China as well as South Korea for a bout of meetings on pressing matters such as trade and global security.
The upcoming trip will be Obama’s most testing venture up till now into the vital [...]

Burmese Boy to be Allowed to Compete in Japan
A Stateless boy born to Burmese refugee parents, Mong Thongdee, residing Chiang Rai has received a special paper from the Foreign Ministry that will allow him to journey to Japan to participate in a origami paper airplane contest.
Pirawich Suwanprathes, deputy director-general of the Information Department, told reporters [...]

ECONOMIC BLITZKRIEG
by Dave S.
Brian Bloom’s latest insightful article at www.gold-eagle.com got me thinking again. In an attempt to understand the tremendous, unprecedented economic and political developments of the past few years, I am putting forth the hypothesis that the ‘powers that be” in the West are engaged in a strategy of ‘Economic Blitzkrieg’ similar to [...]

Latest Travel Warning in Thailand
24 countries have issued travel warnings about traveling to Thailand, 10 of the 24 countries have raised the level of alarm of travel warning following the government’s violent and abusive crackdown on PAD anti-government protesters. The 10 countries are Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Ireland, Japan and the UK, ten counties [...]

Thai Exports of Honda products manufactured in Thailand up 18%
Exports of Honda products manufactured in Thailand is up 18% in 2nd quarter of 2008, Honda Motor Company Thailand announced today. Thai Honda Exports for the 1st half of 2008 was 55.6 billion baht. Honda has been using Thailand as an export base since 1987.
Honda manufactures [...]