Posted by: ronakorn on: May 2, 2009
Siam Park was recorded the world’s biggest artificial sea by Guinness Book. Veerasak Kowsurat, chairman of Tourism Authority of Thailand (TAT) board, said the world’s record built good reputation for Thailand and Thai people.
Posted by: ronakorn on: March 11, 2009
10.2 percent of Thai women began smoking at the age of less than 12 years and 40 percent smoked everyday. Cigarette companies used new strategies to persuade female teenagers to smoke more, according to Action on Smoking and Health (ASH). There were up to 500,000 female smokers in Thailand. Cigarettes were found to shorten life [...]
Posted by: ronakorn on: March 7, 2009
Delegates from the World Health Organization (WHO) joined ASEAN tobacco-controlling organizations’ representatives to seek measures to prevent interference in cigarette-controlling policy. A joint meeting took place on February 27. ASEAN delegates included countries such as Japan, Mongolia and the Philippines. Strategies were set so that they would reach the goal of preventing government agencies from [...]
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 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.
Posted by: ronakorn on: February 20, 2009
Thailand is going to host the third ASEAN Defence Ministers Meeting in Chonburi at the end of this month. The event will take place on February 25-27 in Chonburi and run from Febuary 27 until March 1 in Phetchaburi. Gen Vitthavas Rachatanant revealed that the meeting was to promote cooperation between the member nations. It [...]
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: February 11, 2009
Up to 76.4 percent turned to cost reduction to deal with the current economic crisis, and 81.5 percent of households in the north relied on this method the most. About 26,000 households nationwide were surveyed by the National Statistical Office. 70 percent thought Thailand’s economy became worse than last year. Only 5.9 percent said the [...]
