Posted by: ronakorn on: September 14, 2009
An Australian wine that was once considered a non-collectable item has sold at a record price, surpassing the country’s most acclaimed vintage as wine lovers target rare bottles from the last century.
At the annual Penfolds Wine Auction this weekend, the Penfolds 1957 Shiraz St. Henri was hammered off [...]
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Posted by: ronakorn on: February 23, 2009
Switzerland was feeling the heat on banking secrecy Friday after the United States stepped up its high stakes tax probe against the biggest Swiss bank, UBS.
The widening US bid to force the bank to disclose the identities of some 52,000 US customers who allegedly evaded taxes added to recent tensions between the Alpine haven and [...]
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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, [...]
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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 normal [...]
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