Crash spurs rethink on BMCL role

Cheap hotel deals for Phuket, Krabi

A total of 250 tour operators are teaming up to offer new travel packages to Phuket and Krabi in an effort to revive tourism after the tsunami.

UN: Thailand a good model to follow

The United Nations yesterday released a global development report with recommendations for how to halve poverty in a generation.

Pizza Today to double bakery capacity

Pizza Today Co Ltd will invest Bt80 million to expand its bakery-production capacity and open four branches of its new pizza restaurant with the aim of doubling sales to Bt500 million by year’s end, the company’s president and CEO said yesterday.

Lenders tipped to shift focus

With the home loan business expected to soften this year as the economy cools down and higher interest rates cut into homebuyers’ purchasing power, banks will shift their attention to retail loans.

FILM SECTOR FORUM : ‘Look beyond the box office’

Producers missing out on revenue from songs, etc

TT&T seeks fee cut to offset losses

Provincial fixed line carrier TT&T Plc will ask concession-holder TOT Corp Plc to reduce its concession fees to offset losses from the reduction in long-distance call rates, the company’s president said yesterday.

Local push for Sponsor drink

The Red Bull Beverage Co Ltd intends to apply different marketing strategies for its Red Bull energy drink and its Sponsor electrolyte beverage, the company’s marketing manager said yesterday.

‘Only possible human error’

Sombat Kitjalaksana, managing director of Bangkok Metro Co Ltd, talks to Watcharapong Thongrung about the company’s crisis-management and the lessons learned from Monday’s subway accident.

South’s shrimpers: Govt not doing enough

Soft loans urgently needed for recovery

Samtel wins Bt3-bn school broadband deal

Samart Telcoms Plc (Samtel) has won a five-year deal worth Bt3 billion from the Education Ministry to link broadband Internet to more than 10,000 schools nationwide.

HOT STOCKS

Stock: Siam City Cement Plc (SCCC)

Rate expected to stay at 2 per cent

Drop in consumer confidence seen as key to MPC decision today on interest rate

SAT sets Bt12.90 share price for IPO

Car-parts manufacturer Somboon Advance Technology (SAT) has priced its 74 million initial public offering (IPO) shares at Bt12.90 each.

Hard year ahead for developers

This year will be a tough one for land developers.

FREE-TRADE TALKS : Banks may lose out to US giants

Local banks stand to lose their competitive edge against American financial institutions if the new government strikes a free-trade agreement (FTA) with the US to liberalise the financial sector, Thai Bankers Association secretary-general Twatchai Yongkittikul warned yesterday.

STREET WISE :Ads flashy but target modest

The wrap-around promotion for the Democrat Party accompanying yesterday’s edition of business daily Krungthep Turakij caught many by surprise, especially those who had viewed the party as a slow-moving organisation.

Huawei tipped to win CDMA deal

China’s giant telecom equipment supplier Huawei Technologies is the front-runner to land a deal to extend the Code Division Multiple Access (CDMA) 2000 1-x high-speed cellular phone network – worth Bt13 billion.