Vera Zvonareva and Daniels Hantuchova, former Pattaya tennis champions, will be in Pattaya’s Dusit Thani hotel for the US$220,000 PTT Pattaya Open, scheduled for February 5 to 10. World number 7, Zvonareva from Russia will be chasing titles again after her triumphs in 2009 and 2010. Hatuchova, from Slovakia, who defeated her Russian rival in [...]
Kiatnakin Bank Plc. has agreed to finance the 800 million baht Acqua Condominium project in Jomtien, which will comprise 309 units in two buildings over 24 rai. Photographed at the signing ceremony are Tawatchai Sudtikitpisan, chief executive officer and president of Kiatnakin Bank, and Saksit Teerapornsathanon and Sompop Vanichsenee, directors of Jomtien 9 Condominium Co., [...]
Now in its final phase, City Garden located in Soi 15 Pattaya Second Road presents Building E. The final block is City Garden’s one and only building with a rooftop swimming pool. Available studio, 1-bedroom and 2-bedroom units have modern design approach interior with full facilities.
France Telecom and an investment partner have sold mobile operator Orange Austria to Hong Kong-based Hutchison for 1.3 billion euros ($1.7 billion), Hutchison’s Austrian affiliate said.
The Hutchison deal has been long in the works from the heavily indebted France Telecom, which holds 35 percent of the Austrian company. Buyout firm Mid Europa Partners holds the [...]
The rupee surged 1.4 percent on Thursday and posted its largest single-session rise since May 2009, powered by hopes of dollar inflows, a day after the world’s six major central banks announced co-ordinated action to help ease the euro zone crisis.
Strong gains in local shares, mirroring global equities, and the euro’s sharp climb buoyed the [...]
The economic data is mostly pointing in the right direction, but the weak economy has kept hopes in check for a big improvement in the government’s labor report Friday.
Analysts expect that a slowdown in job creation took place in January after December’s surge in holiday hiring, so that the Labor Department will report no improvement [...]
The prime minister of Thailand has affirmed with the Lower House that the appointment of a new minister to PM’s office, whose name is on the US blacklist, is legitimate.
The queries on newly-appointed PM’s Office Minister Nalinee Thavisin have been raised again during the House of Representatives meeting on Thursday by Democrat Party MP Rachada [...]
The Information and Communications Technology Ministry will draw up a national cyber-security policy framework to fight online crime and fraud, expecting to submit it to the Cabinet by the end of the year.
ICT Minister Anudith Nakornthap said the framework would comprise four areas: national security, the economy, peace in the country, and national infrastructure. The [...]
100 companies set to fight government plan
Seven employers’ confederations will team up with the Federation of Thai Industries to file a petition with the Administrative Court to stop the government implementing its 300 baht daily minimum wage policy.
Representatives from the seven employers’ associations yesterday met to discuss their plan.
Prasit Jong-assayakul, president of the Employers’ Confederation [...]
Taxi motorcyclists nationwide pay Bt684 million each month in protection fees to so-called mafia, an inquiry initiated by a son of Deputy PM Chalerm Yoobamrung found yesterday.
Wan, the newly appointed adviser to the transport minister, led the inspection of a number of taxi motorcycle queues in Bangkok, reportedly following a request by taxi motorcyclists. The [...]
