Thailand Financial News

Bangkok airports shut down cost Thailand more than Tsunami (Thailandnews.net)

Yahoo
Melbourne, Jan 7 : Anti-government protests that shut down Bangkok's airports last year have cost Thailand 11.5 billion dollars, much more than loses suffered during the Tsunami or SARS, a central bank study has said.

January 07, 2009 03:36

Thailand's new economic ministers approve budget to renew stimulus measures (Minneapolis-St. Paul Star Tribune)

Yahoo
BANGKOK, Thailand - Thailand's newly appointed Cabinet ministers overseeing the economy have approved a supplementary budget of 100 billion baht ($2.87 billion) to help extend economic stimulus measures that were to expire on Jan. 31.

January 07, 2009 03:21

Airport siege cost Thailand 8.3 bln dollars: central bank (AFP via Yahoo! News)

Yahoo
Anti-government protests that shut down Bangkok's airports last year have cost Thailand 290 billion baht (8.3 billion dollars), a central bank study said Wednesday.

January 06, 2009 09:50

Thailand's gem, jewelry exports rise in '08

Topix

Bangkok, Thailand --Figures released recently by the Thai Gem and Jewelry Traders Association show the country's gem and jewelry exports increased nearly 60 percent in the first 10 months of 2008, and the TGJTA ...

January 03, 2009 05:31

World bids adieu to a rocky 2008; worries over '09

Topix

For many around the world watching the new year arrive, 2008 had not been pretty. Slumping stocks. Disappearing jobs.

'I'm looking forward to 2009,' said Randolph King of England, whose retirement fund was gutted in the global financial crisis. 'Because it can't get much worse.'

After the most volatile financial year in decades, people paused for a deep breath and a sip of ... perhaps something cheaper than champagne.

'We're not going to celebrate in a big way. We're being careful,' said architect Moussa Siham, 24, as shoppers in the affluent area west of Paris were scaling back purchases for the traditional New Year's Eve feast.

December 31, 2008 11:42

Aussie cowboy loves island life

Phuket Post
BEFORE he moved to Phuket, businessman Warren Crowe was a biker, a cowboy, a successful real estate manager and a trail-blazing restaurant owner. ...

December 26, 2008 10:31

Thai GDP outlook cut after coup

CNN
Political uncertainty flowing from Tuesday's military coup in Thailand has prompted investment banks to cut their Thai GDP growth forecasts sharply.

September 21, 2006 03:00

Small bombs hit Thai south, 1 dead

CNN
At least 10 bombs exploded, nearly simultaneously, at commercial banks across predominantly Muslim southern Thailand Thursday, killing one person and wounding 18 others, authorities said.

August 31, 2006 06:00

Wave Maker

CNN
In a recent issue of Transworld Surf, a trade magazine, Randy French was listed as the third-most-powerful person in the $4.5 billion industry. But if there were a list of the most controversial pl...

September 01, 2005 04:00

Thai banker ordered to pay $4.6bn

CNN
The central bank governor who presided over Thailand's 1997 financial crisis has been ordered by a court to pay back the 180 billion baht ($4.61 billion) plus interest of reserves he spent trying to defend the currency.

June 01, 2005 01:00

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