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
Service fills empty trucks on return journeys A Thai company has launched a website it hopes will soon become a logistics market place, helping to prevent the wastage incurred by empty trucks returning from long-haul deliveries. The website, dxplace.com, is gathering participants and its parent company, DX Innovation, is focusing on building reputation and trust [...]
Posted by: ronakorn on: March 16, 2009
It was forecast that overseas travel market would decline 30 percent if no measures were issued to help the tourism industry. Mr. Charoen Vang-ananont, president of the Thai Travel Agents Association (TTAA), said a number of tourists going abroad would fall 30 percent between the first and the third quarter of this year.
Posted by: ronakorn on: March 7, 2009
Thai men were taller while women had bigger waistline with larger size of breast, according to a study. NECTEC joined NSTDA and science ministry in cooperation with TISI, National Statistical Office, Kasetsart University, Toyota, Thai Wacoal and Tesco Lotus to research into Thai standard size. Information will be initially used in industries such as garment, [...]
Posted by: ronakorn on: February 23, 2009
European new cars sales slumped in January to the lowest level for twenty years, trade data showed on Friday. Sales fell by 27 percent in January from the figure in January last year, the European Automobile Manufacturers Association (ACEA) said. New registrations totalled 958,517 cars, the lowest level for two decades, ACEA said.
Posted by: ronakorn on: February 23, 2009
The Tourism and Sports Ministry will ask the cabinet tomorrow for lending support of 5 billion baht to tourism entrepreneurs affected by the closure of Suvarnabhumi Airport late last year. According to a source from the ministry, 3 billion baht would be extended to existing commercial bank customers who had failed to secure new loans, [...]
Posted by: ronakorn on: February 22, 2009
Thai rice exports fell 38 percent in January after a booming year, an industry group said Wednesday, as the world’s top seller of the grain suffered from the global financial crisis. Slow demand and high rice prices — which reached a record of nearly 1,000 dollars per tonne last year — also hurt the industry, [...]
Posted by: ronakorn on: February 22, 2009
Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva said he did not hear of news that General Motors would seek financial support from several countries, adding that the government had no policy to use people’s taxes to help a particular business. Abhisit said he thought the US government would be able to handle GM.
