Fashion and leather fair expects 5,000 visitors
The Commerce Ministry predicted that the annual "BIFF&BIL" fashion and leather extravaganza that opened yesterday at BITEC will attract orders from local and international buyers worth up to Bt200 million, and will attract up to 5,000 visitors.
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IN BRIEF
Honda Leasing
Debentures highly rated by TRIS
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Discounts aplenty from developers
Many of the 400 participating developers are offering discounts of between Bt30,000 and Bt150,000 at The 15th Housing and Condominium Show, which starts today and runs until Sunday at the Queen Sirikit National Convention Centre in Bangkok.
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SHOW MUST GO ON
Event firms shrug off coup
Many exhibitions are booked years in advance
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LATE NEWS
MAI research
The Market for Alternative Investment (MAI) will publish research reports by securities companies on its website at www.mai.or.th and e-mail end-of-day market summaries to investors.
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Kularb Kaew probe languishes
The Business Development Department will decide whether to transfer the Kularb Kaew's investigation to the police this week, the deputy director-general of the department, Dusit Uchupong, said yesterday.
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Pfizer campaign encourages smokers to butt out
Pfizer Consumer Healthcare, a maker of aids for people who want to stop smoking, has launched its "Welcome Back to a Smoke Free Life" campaign.
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UK branding and strategy firm opens in Bkk
UK-based business-strategy consultant Exploding Potential Ltd has announced the opening in Bangkok of its first operation outside the UK, to manage the development of its business in East Asia.
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MALL EXPANSION
Future Park owner to launch fund
Bt4.7 bn to pay off debt and renovate
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EU silent on quotas for local poultry
Thailand has so far failed to persuade the European Union (EU) to give a special import quota on its chicken exports after meeting with the EU's representative under World Trade Organisation rules.
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Thais happy with European, Japanese tourists, not Chinese
Europeans and Japanese are considered the most courteous tourists, and mainland Chinese the most impolite, but Thais believe their fellow citizens should simply be friendly towards all visitors, according to a recent survey by global market research company Synovate.
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STREET WISE
'Economist' take irks coup admirers
Foes of ousted premier Thaksin Shinawatra might well be upset by the lead editorial of The Economist.
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Suvarnabhumi expected to boost tourism
Private tour operators expect Suvarnabhumi Airport to increase the number of tourists to Thailand by 10 per cent, says the Association of Thai Travel Agents (ATTA).
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Finance firms buy into assurances made by BOT governor
Fifty asset-management companies and securities firms were satisfied with assurances about the country's economic direction and stability made by Bank of Thailand (BOT) Governor MR Pridiyathorn Devakula as head of the economic advisory team for the Council for Democratic Reform (CDR).
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Mahagitsiri forced to buy TCI stock
Thai Film Industries Plc (TFI) said yesterday its major shareholder, the Mahagitsiri Group, had been forced by creditors to buy capital-increase shares in TFI subsidiary Thai Copper Industries (TCI) as a precondition to further lending that would give TCI working capital.
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SECURITIES FIRM
BFIT to offer 200m shares
Following SEC approval of listing, firm to float 25% of common stock - probably in November
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