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On May 22, Bangkok residents will exercise their right to vote for the Thai capital's next governor and councillors. Here are some facts about these elections.

The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) will push for 10 strategies to drive the Thai capital markets, focusing to promote efficiency enhancement for competitiveness and investors’ protection.

PTTEP Treasury Centre Co Ltd has issued senior guaranteed debentures worth Bt15 billion to institutional and high net-worth investors in the Thai capital market. 

THE THREE-MONTH Investor Confidence Index in May dropped 2.83 per cent on uncertainties of Thailand’s political developments after the election, pressuring foreign investors to be net sellers in only the Thai bourse among its regional peers in the first four months of this year, according to the Federation of Thai Capital Market Organisations (Fetco).

Kasikorn Bank forecasts foreign investors to withdraw up to Bt87 billion from the Thai capital market after receiving dividend payments for the second quarter from listed Thai companies.  

Muang Thai Capital is issuing a two-track debenture with a combined value of Bt4 billion, the listed company said in a release on Monday.

The Bangkok Art Biennale 2018, the first to be held in the Thai capital, kicked off on Thursday at several venues across the city, among them The EmQuartier shopping complex on Sukhumvit Road. Quartier Parc and Quartier Avenue are hosting works by Choi Jeong Hwa, a contemporary artist and designer from the Republic of Korea.

We take a look at some of the works being acted out and exhibited at the Thai capital’s first biennale

New type of funds will be set up to replace the long term equity fund (LTF) which will end next year, in a move to boost long-term investment in the Thai bourse, said Federation of Thai Capital Market Organisations (Fetco).

Starting from June 2019, Lufthansa will introduce daily flights between Bangkok and Munich. The new long-haul connection adds more than 2,000 seats per week connecting the Thai capital and southern Germany.

The Bangkok meeting on climate change has floundered on the rock of discord over the formulations and funding adopted at the Paris conference of December 2015. The international summit, which concluded in the Thai capital on Sunday, has fallen short of its aim – to complete preparations towards an agreement this December for implementing the tentative Paris pact.

The Fetco Investor Confidence Index has retreated for the first time since August, falling 22.9 per cent this month to 92.65 points, Voravan Tarapoom, chairman of the Federation of Thai Capital Market Organisations, reported on Monday.