Department director-general Kanissorn Navanukroh said this would allow restaurants and other commercial venues to learn whether they could telecast football matches on their premises without breaching intellectual property rights.

If DhosPaak's contract does also covers re-broadcasts, venues would need its consent before showing the matches on their premises.

Potato chips give football fans a taste of Germany

Pepsi-Cola (Thai) Trading Co Ltd has launched two new flavours - German Sausage and Spicy Berlin - in its Lay brand of potato chips, for the World Cup tournament.

Supplies of both the flavours will be restricted to the duration of the tournament.

The company says it controls 70 per cent of the Bt3.6-billion potato-chip segment.

Orient-Express snaps up luxury property on Samui

Orient-Express Hotels Ltd, owner and operator of 50 deluxe leisure properties in 25 countries, said last week it had agreed to acquire a 100-per-cent interest in the Napasai, a luxury hotel with villas on Koh Samui.

The company will pay US$25 million (Bt955 million) for the hotel, eight adjacent villas and

a large tract suitable for about 40 additional

villas.

The hotel is being acquired for $13 million. The property was developed by Pansea, the company's strategic Southeast Asian partner. It has always been managed as a joint enterprise between Pansea and Orient-Express.

Pansea recently became the sole owner of the property, after acquiring its local partner's half.