Thai PM pledges to tackle rising consumer prices Xinhua | BANGKOK, May 19 (Xinhua) -- Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra on Saturday pledged that her government will expedite solving the problem of rising consumer prices, Thai News Agency reported. | The premier made her remarks as she visited a fresh produce market in central Nakhon Pathom province on h...
TRAVEL: An oddity in Bangkok Business Day | WHAT does Bam know that I don’t? That’s the question I keep mulling over as my taxi crawls through the Bangkok rush hour. There are cars in front and many others behind, cars overhead and a long, long line of them below. Welcome to the city of angels. | I think of Bam when I see a cyclist weav...
Thai PM pledges to tackle rising consumer prices Xinhua | BANGKOK, May 19 (Xinhua) -- Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra on Saturday pledged that her government will expedite solving the problem of rising consumer prices, Thai News Agency reported. | The premier made her remarks as she visited a fresh pro...
Thai Air considers new budget airline, sees turnaround Reuters | BANGKOK (Reuters) - Thai Airways International Pcl may set up a new budget carrier to tap strong demand in the regional no-frills sector and the group is on track to achieve its net profit target this year after a strong first quarter, its presiden...
Thai company wants to boost Australian sugar production Australian Broadcasting Corporation A Thai sugar giant that's taken over five Australian sugar mills wants to increase southern Queensland production by a third. | Mitr Phol took over MSF Sugar earlier this year and is offering $4.5 million in loans to Maryborough farmers to grow more ...
Bangkok's new sizzling Siam hotel will spoil even the most jaded jet-setter The Examiner | The Siam, an all-suite hotel scheduled to open this June in Bangkok has jet-set written all over it. According to a spokesperson for the Chai Praya riverside property, the luxurious property will exceed expectations of even the most jaded jetsetter...
Thai firm linked to Birds Eye swoop The Guardian | CP Foods tables £2.5m bid for British frozen food firm – just one week after Chinese food giant swallows Weetabix Birds Eye, the British frozen food firm famous for its seafood products, manufactured 2.2bn fish fingers in 2011. Photograph: Foodc...
Thai firm linked to Birds Eye swoop The Observer Birds Eye, the British frozen food firm famous for its seafood products, manufactured 2.2bn fish fingers in 2011. Photograph: Foodcollection/Getty Images | First they came for Weetabix. Now a second giant Asian corporation is eyeing our fish fingers....
Chinatown Bangkok: An insider’s food tour of historic Yaowaraj The Examiner | A trip to Bangkok’s historic Chinatown district along Yaowaraj Road is a heady mix of vibrant sights, sounds, and aroma’s. Yaowaraj is a study of contrasts where you can discover the harmonious co-existance of the ancient and the modern, the ...