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Japanese Invest in China, India, Vietnam and Thailand

“Thailand still is a top choice as an important production base for Japanese investors. This year, Thailand is ranked at the fourth place after China, India and Vietnam – which is up from the fifth place in 2008.
This notable ranking is attributed to the large domestic market, its low wages, and [...]

Asean Affairs Business Council to Host Green Event

Asean Affairs Business Council (AABC) is the forum of Southeast Asia’s global publication Asean Affairs. AABC is the platform to discuss the leading issues facing the world and how they impact Asean’s 560 m people across the 10 member countries. In June 2009, AseanAffairs hosted The Sixth Asean Leadership Forum with Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva [...]

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Thailand Update

Thai Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva on Friday played down the threat of violence at upcoming protests seen as a showdown with the government but said the country was still divided and not ready for a popular vote.
Abhisit, who took office in December 2008 in the middle of an economic slump and a polarizing political crisis, [...]

Ebeling Heffernan report on Thai Gold ETFs

Thailand’s’ Capital Market Supervisory Board now has approved the listing of gold exchange-traded funds SET. This is expected to increase local Gold demand by as much as 30%. The current mode of Gold investment in Thailand is predominantly to buy the Gold at a local store and posses the physical asset. This of course gives rise [...]

Siam Cement $161m in Q4

Siam Cement listed in Bangkok with the symbol SCC, is Thailand’s biggest industrial conglomerate, today the company posted a net profit of 5.33 billion baht or $161 million for the fourth quarter, a staggering turning round from a net loss a year before as there were no inventory losses this time and earnings improved at [...]

Ebeling Heffernan Issue Strong Buy on TTF

The Thai Fund, Inc. (the Fund), incorporated on June 10, 1987, is a non-diversified, closed-end management investment company. The Fund’s investment objective is long-term capital appreciation through investment primarily in equity securities of companies organized under the laws of the Kingdom of Thailand. The Fund makes its investments in Thailand through the Thai Investment Plan [...]

Black Tiger Boom

Bangkok Post reports Thailand’s exports of black-tiger shrimp are starting to revive after stumbling for years and losing much of their market to vannamei white shrimp.
Black-tiger shrimp made up more than 85% of Thailand’s shrimp exports in 2004, at 200,000 tonnes, but exports plunged to 5,000 tonnes in 2008 and 2,000 tonnes in 2009 – [...]

Chicken Importers Turn From U.S. to Thailand

Russian chicken importers have begun seeking alternative suppliers, including Thailand, as talks with U.S. experts ended on Thursday without a commitment to reopen the biggest U.S. export market.
Both sides said progress was made during two days of talks in Moscow and that negotiations would continue soon to resolve the dispute. Russia also has banned pork [...]

The Chinese are Coming… to Thailand

The Tourism Authority of Thailand expects at least 100,000 Chinese tourists to spend the coming Chinese New Year in Thailand, up from 60,000 last year, with the easing of H1N1 flu fears and a perception in China of a calmer political situation in Thailand. For two years Thai tourism has suffered from concern over the [...]

Bankok post calls ASEAN-China free trade a new era

Jan 1 saw the formation of the Asean-China Free Trade Area (AC-FTA). Although the pact is off to a quiet start, the implications are enormous and will significantly affect all small and medium enterprises (SMEs) in this part of the world.
The first impact will be price reductions as Thailand, China, the Philippines, Malaysia, Brunei and [...]