BOI Pushes “Thailand Investment Year” To Accelerate Economic Shift For 2019, BOI has set investment application target at 750,000 million baht To promote the new package and share with investors Thailand’s updated investment policy and incentives, BOI sets “Thailand Investment Year – What’s New?” as the theme of its annual seminar scheduled for 4 March…
French MRO Revima To Build Landing Gear Facility In Chonburi The French landing gear MRO provider has started construction of a new facility in Chonburi, Thailand The facility will focus on Airbus A320, Boeing 737 and ATR family landing gears. It will be equipped with the latest state-of-the-art machines and will include all necessary special…
Key Trends Behind The Growth In Asia-Pacific’s Industrial And Logistics Market As the retail market moves online, demand for modern logistics warehousing will only increase further. Over the past five years, global investment into industrial and logistics property has doubled, reaching a total of US$126 billion in 2017. A sector traditionally prized for its stable…
Thai Consumer Confidence Index Improving For The First Time In 5 Months Public confidence in the expansion of the Thai economy improves after a clear election date has been set fourth Public confidence in the expansion of the Thai economy continues to improve after a clear election date has been set fourth and a comeback…
Sansiri to focus on medium and ‘affordable’ property segments in 2019 LISTED PROPERTY firm Sansiri Plc plans to issue Bt5.5 billion worth of debentures this year to raise the money to buy Bt5 billion in land as part of its 2019 business expansion, its chief financial officer, Wanchak Buranasiri, said at a press conference yesterday.…
Property firms turn to debentures to pay for new land Debentures will be issued by listed property firms to help raise funds for land purchases totalling more than Bt100 billion this year. A recent survey by The Nation found most of the developers would turn to debentures to help support their business expansion in 2019. The move…
ASIAN MARKETS RISE ON HOPES FOR INTEREST RATE CUTS A man walks past an electronic stock board showing Japan’s Nikkei 225 index at a securities firm in 2017 in Tokyo. Photo: Shuji Kajiyama / Associated Press SINGAPORE — Asian shares were mostly higher Thursday on news that the Reserve Bank of Australia may cut interest rates,…
Thai e-Commerce grew to Bt3.2- tr last year: ETDA Thai e-Commerce grew the most in Asean last year, due to changes in consumer behaviour, and its value is expected to hit Bt3.2 trillion, the Electronic Transactions Development Agency (ETDA) said in a press release on Saturday. The number of internet users has grown four times…
NBTC may extend loans to operators as 5G inducement THE NATIONAL Broadcasting and Telecommunications Commission (NBTC) is exploring the possibility of drawing on its research and development fund to make loans to telecom operators as a new financial option to encourage the operators to bid for new spectrum licences later this year. NBTC secretary-general Takorn…
Thailand Slips To 99th Rank In Corruption Index Why is Asia Pacific making little to no progress in its anti-corruption efforts? One of the reasons is an overall weakening of democratic institutions and political rights, says Patricia Moreira, Transparency International’s managing director. Thailand ranked No.99, on par with the Philippines, out of 180 countries and…