Posted by: ronakorn on: September 14, 2009
Women in some of Britain’s leading financial companies receive around 80 percent less in bonus and performance-linked pay than their male colleagues, the country’s equality watchdog said on Monday. A survey of 50 finance firms found that women earned an average of 2,875 pounds ($4,712) a year in performance pay compared to 14,550 pounds for [...]
Posted by: ronakorn on: April 5, 2009
Sun Microsystems today announced that it topped the UNIX server market in Thailand in terms of factory revenue in 2008, according to IDC Asia/Pacific Enterprise Server Tracker, CY2008 Q4 2008, Feb 2009. The report said that Sun maintained its leadership position in terms of factory revenue, with 38.5% share in the Thailand UNIX server market [...]
Posted by: ronakorn on: February 23, 2009
Foreign carriers feel pressing charges against protesters is not worthwhile, writes Boonsong Kositchotethana Many airlines and aviation service providers are allowing the People’s Alliance for Democracy (PAD) to go scot-free for seizing Bangkok’s airports, which cost the economy more than 200 billion baht and ruined Thailand’s international image. International airlines such as British Airways, Cathay [...]
Posted by: ronakorn on: February 15, 2009
Mr. Jitti Tangsithpakdi, president of the Gold Traders Association of Thailand, said that gold price tended to rise more and might reach 15,450 baht within a month. Increasing gold prices are because the US financial crisis has not been solved yet. As a result, people have bought gold to reduce risk. The gold situation is [...]
Posted by: ronakorn on: January 1, 2009
The ASEAN Summit is set to officially take place on February 13-15 in Bangkok, according to the foreign ministry. The foreign ministry earlier mentioned the dates of February 24-26 for the 14th summit. However, the plan was changed since it was not convenient for some member nations and Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva wanted to make [...]
Posted by: ronakorn on: December 26, 2008
The current economic downturn in Thailand has forced nearly three out of four entrepreneurs to suffer a cash-flow problem, according to a survey conducted recently by University of the Thai Chamber of Commerce (UTCC). UTCC vice-rector Saowanee Thairungroj said the survey conducted on 400 business operators between December 11-16 found that the cash flow problem [...]
Posted by: ronakorn on: December 23, 2008
When the economy is in a funk, Treasuries or Stocks are to get a fix on what’s ahead. This interesting interview from TIME is talk about it. TIME contributing editor John Curran talked to two top strategists at Merrill Lynch: Richard Bernstein, who plots U.S. investment strategy, and Michael Hartnett on international. This is interesting [...]
