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• BMA, MRTA vie to run mass-transit project

  The Cabinet yesterday

• Bt30 bn for education

  The Education Ministry

• BMA, MRTA vie to run mass-transit project

  The Cabinet yesterday

• AirAsia removes surcharge on all flights

  AirAsia

• AIS rings up 29% profit jump in Q3

  Advanced Info Service yesterday posted a third-quarter net profit of Bt4.53 billion, up 29.1 per cent year on year, due to strong growth in service revenue.

• Sales focus firmly on asia

  US firm's home market hit by slump

• Massive fiscal stimulus for China

  Ahead of a deluge of domestic data releases for October this week, China's State Council on Sunday approved a fiscal-stimulus package worth 4 trillion yuan (Bt20.48 trillion) through end-2010 to boost domestic demand.

• Metro Fashion Opens its doors in Pratunam

  Family turns to shopping malls after cinemas, real estate

• Phatra sees listed firms' 2009 earnings growth in negative territory

  With a global recession looming, Phatra Securities has warned that listed companies' earnings growth will drop well into negative territory next year.

• Sharpest decline in major economies' growth since WWII: Fitch

  Fitch Ratings predicts that the world's major advanced economies - the United States, the United Kingdom, the euro area and Japan - will next year experience the steepest decline in economic growth since World War II.

• SUCHART URGES BOT TO CUT RATE

  Finance Minister Suchart Thadathamrongvech has urged the Bank of Thailand (BOT) to slash its policy interest rate of 3.75 per cent to below the deposit interest rate. He said the central bank should also reduce bond issues to financial....

• Bond Outlook

  The Thai bond market rallied last month, driven by a dovish Bank of Thailand monetarypolicy outlook and capital flight. The US dollar liquidity drought early in October drove foreignexchange swap points deep into discount (from premium in....

• Honda (Thailand) rethinking exports

  Honda Automobile (Thailand) is considering reducing its export-oriented production next year.

• Daikin may go south

  Daikin Industries, Japan's biggest maker of air-conditioners, said it may shift some production from Thailand to Australia to take advantage of the weakening Australian dollar.

• Could Governor Apirak commit (political) suicide?

  People commit suicide every day. But could that include Bangkok Governor Apirak Kosayodhin?

• companyreport

  companyreport

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