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Paramount Airways to go global
The Hindu
| Special Correspondent | HYDERABAD: Paramount Airways, the country's first premium airline, is planning to go international by year-end or early 2011 by starting operations to Singapore, Kuala Lumpur and Bangkok. | Disclosing this to reporters here, its Managing Director M. Thiagarajan said subsequ...
An anti-government protester and supporter of exiled Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra chants slogans during a protest outside the government house in Bangkok, Thailand Sunday, March 29, 2009. Several thousand protesters surrounded the government house for a fourth day said they will exert mounting pressure until Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva steps down claiming that Abhisit came to power illegitimately and should step aside so new elections can be held. Abhisit has rejected their calls.
(photo: AP / Apichart Weerawong)
Thaksin supporters denounce Thai court verdict
The State
| BANGKOK -- Populist former Thai leader Thaksin Shinawatra and his supporters denounced a court order to seize $1.4 billion of his assets and vowed Saturday to pursue a nonviolent struggle for what they said would be a people's democracy. | But analysts and editorials speculated that the Supreme Co...
Paramount Airways to go global
The Hindu
| Special Correspondent | HYDERABAD: Paramount Airways, the country's first premium airline, is planning to go international by year-end or early 2011 by starting operations to Singapore, Kuala Lumpur and Bangkok. | Disclosing this to reporters here,...
How to find a travel agent in Bangkok, Thailand: Booking a trip from Bangkok is easy
The Examiner
| If you're like many tourists who come to Bangkok, Thailand, you'll want to book a vacation, a flight or a bus trip through a travel agent once you get here. | There are thousands of travel agents in Bangkok and, like anywhere, some are better than ...
Bangkok on grenade alert
Hong Kong Standard
Thailand tightened security after two grenades exploded outside branches of the country's biggest bank in a suspected reaction to a court verdict against deposed premier Thaksin Shinawatra. | //--> Monday, March 01, 2010 | ADVERTISEMENT | Thailand ti...
Security tightened in Bangkok after bank blasts
Business Report
| By Ambika Ahuja | Thailand Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva on Sunday ordered security tightened in Bangkok after two hand grenades exploded outside branches of the country's biggest bank, causing light damage but no injuries. | Four grenades were ...
Rice Crop  -  Farming  -  Agriculture  -  Rice Paddies
WN / Trigedia
Insects devastate Thailand's rice crop, institute says
m&c
| Bangkok - Excessive use of fertilizers and pesticides and other poor farming practices have led to an insect plague in Thailand's rice fields that was predicted to reduce yields ...
Sacks of rice - Commodity - Food
WN / Sweet Radoc
Asia rice prices fall as supply rises, demand thins
Malaya
| BANGKOK - Asian rice prices fell on Wednesday as the world’s big producing countries started harvesting, stoking concerns of oversupply as buyers stayed on the sidelines expect...
Oil prices rollback - energy prices market - gasoline and oil pump
WN / James D.
Oil near $75 in Asia amid improved economic data
Syracuse
| (AP) - BANGKOK - Oil prices headed toward $75 a barrel Tuesday in Asia as regional stock markets snapped a losing streak and economic data suggested U.S. crude demand could impro...
Oil near $75 in Asia amid improved economic data
Syracuse
| (AP) - BANGKOK - Oil prices headed toward $75 a barrel Tuesday in Asia as regional stock markets snapped a losing streak and economic data suggested U.S. crude demand could improve. | Benchmark crude for March delivery was up 27 cents at $74.70 a b...
Oil near $75 in Asia amid improved economic data
Philadelphia Daily News
| The Associated Press | BANGKOK - Oil prices headed toward $75 a barrel Tuesday in Asia as regional stock markets snapped a losing streak and economic data suggested U.S. crude demand could improve. | Benchmark crude for March delivery was up 27 cen...
For a flavour of South-east Asia, eat local
The Independent
| Sup noodles at a Bangkok market stall, devour rotis on a Penang street corner, or nibble on a buttery croissant in Vientiane. Adventurous visitors can embark on an epicurean journey of some proportions in South-east Asia. In fact, tasting the regio...
Money
Thailand's Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva smiles during a press conference at his office in Bangkok, Thailand, Thursday, April 16, 2009. Thailand's fugitive former leader Thaksin Shinawatra now has a Nicaraguan passport, complicating efforts to extradite him, as Thai authorities pressed ahead Thursday with a search for his supporters accused of leading violent riots in Bangkok.
(photo: AP / Vincent Thian)
Thai PM Orders More Security After Bank Blasts
The New York Times
| Filed at 7:10 a.m. ET | BANGKOK (AP) -- Thailand's prime minister ordered stepped-up security in Bangkok on Sunday after four banks were targeted with small explosive devices. | The attacks Saturday night, in which no one was hurt, came a day after the Supreme Court ordered $1.4 billion of exiled former leader Thaksin Shinawatra's assets seized f...



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