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— Thai proverb
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Pandora to cut 1,200 Thai jobs as Q1 profit, sales fall
COPENHAGEN: Pandora will lay off another 1,200 workers in Thailand and speed up marketing spending as its new CEO looks to turn around the struggling jewellery maker after another fall in like-for-like quarterly sales.
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Thai restaurateurs $4.4m tax dodge alleged in hiding cash sales
Extended family with 28 restaurants failed to declare about $12m in cash sales, court told.
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Condo joint ventures trending
More foreign developers have been coming to Thailand to form joint ventures with Thai developers in recent years. Japanese developers in particular have been pursuing long-term relationships in the country since 2013.
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ADB dour on Thai growth, seeing 3.9%
NADI, Fiji: The global economic slowdown is expected to hamper Thailand's GDP expansion from this year to 2020, with the slump in world export demand affecting the country more than some neighbours, says Asian Development Bank's (ADB) chief economist.
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Airbus, THAI to ink U-tapao deal
Airbus and Thai Airways International Plc (THAI) are expected to sign a pact on a joint venture company to handle the maintenance, repair and overhaul (MRO) centre at U-tapao airport sometime this month.
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Pheu Thai panel to mull 6 more projects
Six additional projects worth a combined 85 billion baht are expected to seek the Public-Private Partnership (PPP) committee's approval this year to proceed under the joint investment scheme.
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Chiang Mai hoteliers damaged by air pollution
After suffering from haze blanketing several provinces in the North the past several months, hotel operators in Chiang Mai think it's unlikely their business will recover over the next few months.
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Adventure tourism safety laws mulled
A new law will be drafted to ensure safer adventure tourism after a Canadian tourist plunged to his death from a zipline attraction during the Songkran festival in Chiang Mai.
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Thai TV meets NBTC
Media veteran and Thai TV owner Pantipa Sakulchai, aka J Tim, met with the broadcasting regulator on Thursday to see whether her company is exempt from additional licence fee payments under Section 44 despite having exited the business four years ago after failing to make licence payments.
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Thailand set to be Southeast Asia's hottest IPO market
BANGKOK/SINGAPORE: Thailand is set to see the most funds raised from IPOs in Southeast Asia this year, with more than $5 billion (160 billion baht) expected to be garnered in the second half, sources said, as a tourist boost to the economy trumps jitters stoked by inconclusive elections.
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World Bank lowers Thai economic growth projection
The World Bank foresees the Thai economy expanding by 3.8% this year and 3.9% next year, with growth slowed by the impact of the trade war between China and the United States.
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Thai, Shenzhen bourses ink deal to help SMEs, securities
The Stock Exchange of Thailand (SET) on Tuesday signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with the Shenzhen Stock Exchange (SZSE) to expand opportunities supporting small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) and securities cross-listing between Thailand and China.
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March domestic car sales rise 8.5% y-o-y
Thai domestic car sales rose 8.5% in March from a year earlier to 103,164 units after increasing 9.1% in February, the Federation of Thai Industries said on Tuesday.
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FTA and GSP use by exporters rises 3.4%
The use of free trade agreement (FTA) privileges and the Generalised System of Preferences (GSP) by Thai exporters amounted to US$11.57 billion in the first two months of 2019, up 3.4% from the same period last year.
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Thai Retailers Association attacks duty-free ruling
The private sector has slammed the government for giving Airports of Thailand Plc (AoT) latitude in handling the controversial duty-free shop bidding, demanding accountability for a process that would damage the country.
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City Hall delays skytrain bid
City Hall has decided to postpone the bidding process to select a private partner to jointly invest in the 25.6-billion-baht North-South extensions of the skytrain's Green Line, as it tries to seal a deal with Bangkok Mass Transit System Plc (BTS).
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EIC revises down GDP forecast once more
Siam Commercial Bank's Economic Intelligence Center (EIC) has again downgraded its 2019 economic outlook, slashing the forecast for Thai GDP growth to 3.6% amid a global economic slowdown and domestic political risk.
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Q1 overseas outflow B42bn
Foreign net outflows from Thai government bonds were worth 42.3 billion baht in the first quarter as investors sold short-term bonds to lock in profit and avoid impacts anticipated from higher interest rates and possible baht depreciation.
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Ubon Ratchathani to get industrial estate
A partnership between Thai and Japanese companies plans to invest nearly 3 billion baht to build an industrial estate in Ubon Ratchathani, focusing on agriculture processing and biotechnology.
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Q1 overseas outflow B42bn
Foreign net outflows from Thai government bonds were worth 42.3 billion baht in the first quarter as investors sold short-term bonds to lock in profit and avoid impacts anticipated from higher interest rates and possible baht depreciation.
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Minor Group sniffs opportunities abroad
With competition in the Thai restaurant business intensifying, Global Thai Concepts, a subsidiary of Minor Food Group, is exploring more opportunities abroad this year.