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Published on August 17, 2007

Chairman Paichit Rattananon yesterday said the company would bid for seven or eight more projects worth Bt6 billion this half-year. With the acquisition of Sahakarn Wisavakorn, it can now tender for factory and infrastructure construction projects, aside from natural gas pipelines. TRC plans to build power stations and petrochemical plants.

"We are now focusing on turnkey projects, which will boost our gross profit margin," she said.

TRC's first-half net profit stood at Bt50.8 million, up from last-year's first half.

Rice guard

The Army will send guards to the North to secure the government's rice stocks from pilfering.

Pisut Chalakornkul, president of the Public Warehouse Organisation, said yesterday that the Commerce Ministry has asked for cooperation from the Army to help protect rice stored in theft danger zones, especially Nakhon Sawan and Phichit.

About 2,000 tonnes of rice have recently gone missing from godowns in the North. One million of the 3 million tonnes of rice remaining in the government's stockpile are kept in northern warehouses.