BANKING
New loan scheme will rank farms' quality, efficiency
BAAC hopes to cut the level of NPLs in agriculture
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STREET WISE
Forgotten lullabies
The institution of the family is becoming harder to sustain in a world where the unit is shrinking in size.
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Teaming up to push '4 angels'
Home Run Entertainment, the producer of the "4 Angies" animated television programme, which debuts tomorrow night on Channel 3, has teamed up with three other companies to promote the "four angels" in the show.
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RICE
Rogues in scam to undercut exports
Ministry fears adulteration will eat into Kingdom's reputation
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Japan's Mitsubishi sets up marketing base in Thailand to woo foreign orders
Japanese conglomerate Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI) has established a mar-
keting and information-gathering base in Thailand in a bid
to attract expanded inter-
national orders for its gas-tur-bine combined-cycle plants and other power-generation equipment.
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IBM to lay greater emphasis on outsourcing
IBM will concentrate on business processing and business trans-
formation outsourcing for both domestic and international
companies.
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LATE NEWS
Seoul plays it tough on American FTA
South Korea and the United States were deadlocked late last week on three areas of their free-trade agreement.
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MASS TRANSIT
Red Line up for bidding first
Lack of legal restraints gets Railway's
Rangsit-Bang Sue stretch off to good start
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S Korean steelmaker to boost exports to Thailand
Giant South Korean steel-manufacturer Changwon Specialty Steel plans to boost exports to Thailand next year to 15 per cent of its total exports, from 10 per cent now.
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World telecoms conference lays siege to Chinese market
All attention was on breaking into China's huge market at the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) Telecom World 2006 conference here.
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Siemens eyes China and India
China and India are the main targets of Siemens Network, Christian Unterberger, Siemens' president of fixed networks, said last week.
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Could Thailand be an eco-Detroit?
Eco-cars could be the engine that drives Thailand to its goal of becoming the "Detroit of Asia" by 2010.
The country's automobile assemblers are waiting to see what incentives the government will offer for the production of eco-cars before they ramp up spending on production plants.
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GREEN-TEA MARKET
Execs expect sluggishness to ease
Green-tea makers believe the market will once again experience growth after a sluggish year, although the growth will be "slow but sure" and not explosive like before.
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How foreigners swipe Thai assets
K I Woo takes another look at nominee corporations and some common abuses
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Enterprise and patience pay for ex-waitress
Foreseeing business opportunities in Hong Kong, a Thai woman didn't worry about confronting all the risks but decided to forge her future by opening a Thai restaurant on the island with savings of only HK$200 (Bt1,000) four years ago.
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