Japan eases stance on steel; talks to continue in July

Lalin, BAY link up for savings-account promotion

Lalin Property has joined with Bank of Ayudhya to give customers a savings account worth one per cent of the purchase price when they buy one of Lalin’s homes and secure a loan for it through the bank.

Banks to get tougher on housing loans

Consumers will have less opportunities to see new houses before they buy, and ready-to-sell houses are likely to disappear altogether as banks become more selective about extending loans to house-builders and buyers, a property guru predicted yesterday.

Betagro to make dog food at fish feed mill

Betagro Group plans to turn its fish feed mill in Nakhon Pathom into a pet food factory.

Tsunami, violence eat into the South’s vital tourist economy

The number of inbound tourists passing through immigration checkpoints in the South in the first quarter tumbled 42 per cent year on year to 445,958.

STREET WISE: Worapoj keeps us all guessing

Nothing is hotter right now than the Suvarnabhumi scandal. Worapoj Yasadatt, a director of Patriot Business Consultants Co Ltd, knew that very well. That was why, when he hosted a press conference on Tuesday, he invited media representatives to come to listen to what was behind the company’s deal with InVision Technologies Inc.

SPECIAL: Canadian company makes strikingly realistic 3D images

One of the hi-tech companies that we visited in the Toronto/Waterloo area was Arius 3D, which is in the business of creating perfect three-dimensional digital copies of real-world objects.

PROPERTY SALES: Oil prices may cause condo run

Residents would save on fuel, time

‘Up tariffs to fund energy efficiency’

A US energy expert yesterday suggested the government increase electricity tariffs by up to 5 per cent to fund energy-efficiency programmes.

Savers can buy Dhanarak bonds

Retail investors, who are fed up with the negligible return on bank deposits, will be given the chance to buy some of the Dhanarak asset-backed bonds to be issued next quarter.

EU urged to hurry

Thailand has urged the European Union to complete by July its granting of tax privileges to Thai shrimp, Foreign Ministry spokesman Sihasak Phuangketkeow said yesterday.

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Price to rise