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More Japanese firms joining Thilawa economic zone
Kyodo News, Published on 08/02/2017
» YANGON - Japan's Ryobi Holdings Co has opened a warehouse in Myanmar's Thilawa special economic zone (SEZ) developed by a public-private joint venture between the two countries, joining a growing list of Japanese firms operating there.
Outbound Thai property investment set to grow
Published on 08/02/2017
» Thai outbound investment in real estate has been limited over the past 30 years even as Thai investors have sufficient funds to actively participate overseas but that is slowing changing due to various factors.
'Severe disruption' likely over Berlin airport strikes
Published on 08/02/2017
» BERLIN - Ground staff at Berlin's two commercial airports will go on strike for six hours Wednesday in a dispute over pay, Germany's biggest white collar union said.
Korean ex-minister indicted for blacklisting artists
Reuters, Published on 08/02/2017
» SEOUL - South Korea's special prosecutor has indicted a former culture minister and a former top aide to President Park Geun-hye on charges of abuse of power, coercion and perjury for their role in drafting a blacklist of dissenting artists, a spokesman said.
Philippines: US military can build barracks
Associated Press, Published on 08/02/2017
» MANILA - Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte has given the go-ahead for the US military to build barracks and fuel depots in designated local camps where American forces are allowed to temporarily station under a 2014 defence pact, Defence Secretary Delfin Lorenzana said Tuesday.
Avian flu: Chinese cities halt bird sales
Reuters, Published on 08/02/2017
» BEIJING - An outbreak of a deadly bird flu virus in China's central Hunan province has prompted authorities to put a temporary bar on the sale of live poultry in several cities, the official Xinhua news agency reported.
Wissanu boasts of regime's new laws
News, Dumrongkiat Mala, Published on 08/02/2017
» After two and a half years of the Prayut Chan-o-cha administration, 213 new laws have been promulgated, outstripping the combined number of new laws issued by several governments over the past seven years, Deputy Prime Minister Wissanu Krea-ngam says.
Thais seek 'IS suspect' extradition
News, Published on 08/02/2017
» Thailand is seeking the extradition of one of six suspects detained recently in Malaysia's Kelantan state next to the deep South with bomb-making materials, who is also wanted by Thai police in connection with the southern unrest, army chief Chalermchai Sittisat says.
THAI appoints acting president
News, Published on 08/02/2017
» The Thai Airways International Plc board yesterday appointed Usanee Sangsingkeo, its executive vice-president, aviation business unit, as acting president.
PM calls for end to top monk row
News, Published on 08/02/2017
» Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha has called on Buddhists to end the dispute over the appointment of the new supreme patriarch now that His Majesty the King has selected the 20th Supreme Patriarch of Thailand.