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Jeju Air, a South Korean budget carrier, will begin flights to Bangkok tomorrow in an attempt to expand its business into Asia, it said in a statement on Monday.

The low-cost airline will offer two weekly flights on the Incheon-Bangkok route. The number of flights will be increased to four in late June.

Bangkok is its second overseas destination after the Japanese cities of Osaka and Kitakyushu on March 20. Jeju Air plans to fly to 13 Asian cities by 2013. - The Korean Herald/Asia News Network

Digital centre for resale homes

The Real Estate Broker Association has opened a digital transaction centre for resale homes at www.reba.or.th. Property listings on the site come from 143 ordinary members and 82 associated members, president Somsak Muniperakul said yesterday.

With membership in the International Consortium of Real Estate Associations, the Thai chapter will also have access to overseas markets. - The Nation

Banker heads PayPal in region

PayPal has hired Farhad Irani, Standard Chartered Singapore's global head of credit cards and personal loans, as its chief in Asia Pacific, one of its fastest-growing regions with more than 12 million PayPal accounts.

From headquarters in Singapore, the eBay company currently offers its services in five Asian languages - Bahasa Indonesia, Japanese, Thai, and simplified and traditional Chinese.

The service supports payments from 190 markets in 19 global currencies, including local currencies such as the Australian dollar, Hong Kong dollar, yen, yuan, New Zealand dollar and Singapore dollar.

Currently 45 per cent of PayPal revenues come from outside the US, and it expects the business to continue to grow in the coming years. - The Nation

Nipro in major Thai output boost

Japanese medical firm Nipro Kawasumi Laboratories plans

to boost production in Thailand, the Nikkei English News has

reported.

Nipro will invest 4.4 billion yen (Bt1.5 billion) in its Thai unit to double needle production while Kawasumi Lab will spend hundreds of millions of yen to double annual output of blood bags at its Thai unit. - Bloomberg

Gulf Air to up Bangkok service

Gulf Air is adding flights and capacity to several of its key destinations this summer, on expectation that travel demand will be strong despite the current economic climate.

The carrier's new Boeing 777 aircraft, which recently joined the airline as part of its refleeting and product-enhancement strategy, have been drafted to the airline's busiest routes - London, Bangkok, Manila and Kuala Lumpur. - The Nation

Compac's NGV dispenser deal 

New Zealand's Compac Industries has penetrated the Thai natural-gas-for-vehicle (NGV) dispenser market with the installation of a dispenser at the Hino truck factory.

The Hino truck factory, Compac's newest customer, purchased the dispenser in order to fill their new NGV trucks as they roll off the production line.

The first of these trucks began filling last month. - The Nation