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 [...]
Feb
24
Japan Still Likes Thailand for Investment
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Oct
25
Greenpeace Bugs Bigshots in Hua Hin
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Greenpeace Bugs Bigshots in Hua Hin
Greenpeace, the environmental group, assembled at the 15th Asean Summit on Saturday, insisting Asian principals to take a important action to stop climate change.
The activist group hopes that positive steps will be taken by ASEAN member states to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
The group grabbed attention by rolling a transparent-plastic [...]
Sep
30
Typhoon Approaches Thailand
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Typhoon Approaches Thailand
The Thai government has created a 50 million baht emergency fund for all provinces soon to be hit by typhoon Ketsana, currently on course towards Thailand, Interior Minister Chavarat Charnvirakul told reporters on Tuesday.
The number of deaths from Ketsana in the Philippines has increased to more than 240 people. more than 170,000 people [...]
Jun
18
Rare Irrawaddy Dolphins Facing Extinction in Mekong River
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Rare Irrawaddy Dolphins Facing Extinction in Mekong River
The environmental organization, The World Wide Fund For Nature (WWF) has announced a study finding that only 64 to possibly 76 Irrawaddy Dolphins remain in the Mekong river. The explanation given for the declining numbers is that toxic pesticides as well as industrial waste are so polluting [...]
Jun
24
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May
3
Everyone’s Still Talking about Rice
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Everyone’s Still Talking about Rice
Vietnamese leaders have rejected Prime Minister Samak Sundaravej’s assertion that a Southeast Asian rice price-fixing cartel was soon to be in business. According to the Vietnamese government, the Thai negotiators who were scheduled to visit them in Vietnam to thrash out the issue last month had never even shown up. [...]
May
2
McCain, U.S. Candidate, ‘I hate the gooks! I will hate them as long as I live’
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McCain, U.S. Candidate, ‘I hate the gooks! I will hate them as long as I live’
On February 17, 2000, John McCain the current expected Republican nominee for the office of President of the U.S.A. is quoted as saying, “I hate the gooks, I will hate them as long as I live.” “Gook” is a racist [...]
Apr
25
Vietnam Competes for Food Exports
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Vietnam Competes for Food Exports
Thai food exporters are facing stiff and growing competition for food exports to Europe from Vietnam. Thailand’s National Food Institute reports that the value of produce exported to Europe last year was 20.2 billion baht, down from 20.6 billion a year before. The association estimates that Vietnam now controls [...]
Jan
10
Vietnam police find 2 tigers in a car in Hanoi
Thursday, 10 January 2008
by Ngo Xuan Tung
Vietnamese police came face-to-face with two live tigers they found in a passenger car in central Hanoi when they busted an illegal wildlife trafficking gang this week, media reports said yesterday. The tigers had been sedated by the animal smugglers [...]