Samui opens up
Thai Airways will operate two flights a day from Suvarnabhumi airport to Samui. The fare is expected to be similar to that currently offered by Bangkok Airways.The new route will be popular among foreign tourists. Prices have already risen in Samui and, of course, this will make the latest hot spot in Thailand even more accessible. [...]
Posted: January 18th, 2008 under Samui.
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SET finishes year up 26% from 2006
Nuntawun Polkuamdee of The Bangkok Post reports The Stock Exchange of Thailand ended its final day of trade for 2007 at 858.1 points, with Thai stocks posting a 26.22% gain for 2007.
The smaller Market for Alternative Investment posted even stronger gains, rising 40.81% over the year to close at 272.37 points.
Foreign investors were net buyers [...]
Posted: January 4th, 2008 under Economic News.
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Asian investment behaviours
Umesh Pandey writing for The Bangkok Post reports Asia, increasingly the centre of gravity for the world’s investors, continues to fare well as a region for doing business, despite policy volatility in some markets.In the recent Doing Business in 2008 report released by the World Bank and Industrial Finance Corp late last month, Singapore led the [...]
Posted: November 17th, 2007 under Asia.
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