Not the usual family business
Thailife Group chief Chai Chaiyawan - who often works 15 hours a day - prefers to see his empire as a private company run by pros, who make all key decisions with the family
|
|
|
New JV offers med research test services
BioInnova & Synchron, a Thai-Indian joint venture, has been established to provide clinical research services in Thailand, including testing new medical treatments on local volunteers.
|
|
|
China, India to add 60% to mobile growth
China and India will remain the world's growth engine for wireless services until 2011, accounting for 60 per cent of the 1.2 billion predicted new mobile-phone subscribers over the next five years, Xinhua News Agency said last week.
|
|
|
Pertamina may import LPG from Thailand
Indonesia's state-owned oil and gas firm Pertamina will import some 1.5 million tonnes of liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) from Qatar and the United Arab Emirates in 2009 to support the government's campaign to gradually replace highly subsidised kerosene with natural gas.
|
|
|
SPECIAL REPORT
Energy firms reaching out to communities
While money is the most important factor defining the success of a large-scale investment project like a power plant, also on an investor's must-do list today is community acceptance.
|
|
|
CPF plans 10-year move away from commodities
Thailand's biggest food and farm operator and exporter, Charoen Pokphand Foods (CPF), has launched a 10-year business plan aimed at reducing the proportion of revenues from its farms and focusing more on finished and branded products.
|
|
|
KTB banking on higher dividends from subsidiaries
Krung Thai Bank is counting on heftier dividends from its units to offset profit cuts from new accounting standards.
|
|
|
ASUSTek launches Lamborghini notebook
ASUSTek Computer (Thailand) has launched a laptop computer designed to give its users the same feeling as sitting behind the steering wheel of a Lamborghini.
|
|
|
Investment in Thai hotels is stalled by FBA moves
Many foreign investors are delaying investment in Thailand's hotel industry while they wait for a clearer picture of the amendments to the Foreign Business Act (FBA), says Thai Hotels Association vice president Prakit Chinamourpong.
|
|
|
STREET WISE
What price another BBC?
All eyes are now focused on how the government is reshaping TITV.
|
|
|
Asia agrees to 'greener' property premium
A sustainability survey conducted by Jones Lang LaSalle in collaboration with CoreNet Global reveals that 64 per cent of respondents in Asia-Pacific are prepared to pay a premium for greener real estate.
|
|
|
Seaweed success
Taokaenoi Food and Marketing expects sales of its TaoKaeNoi Japanese Seaweed Snack to reach Bt100 million this year, following its success in achieving an 80-per-cent share of the fried-seaweed snack market in three years.
|
|
|
Thai puppet-master builds his business through e-commerce
Wanting to have his own business as a second career when he was 26 and working at an advertising agency, Niwet Waevsamana established Bann Tookkatoon Hoonkrabok Thai in 1997 to produce and distribute hoonkrabok, a type of classical Thai puppet.
|
|
|
Late news :Oji expands thermal paper capacity
Oji Paper has decided to spend 4.7 billion yen (Bt1.37 billion) for coating machinery for thermal paper at its wholly owned unit, Oji Paper (Thailand).
|
|
|
