Proposal for BOT position draws fire
Finance Minister MR Pridiyathorn Devakula was yesterday accused of infringing good governance by a ministry insider.
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GLOBAL TRENDSX
New world giants in the making
New nations are throwing the cash around
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IN BRIEF
Two bidders win govt rice auction
Only one rice-exporter and one rice-miller won the bidding opened by the Foreign Trade Department last week in an attempt to release the government's stockpile.
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Ft rate for next February-May will not be raised: Piyasvasti
The variable fuel tariff (Ft) for the February-May period next year will not be raised, Energy Minister Piyasvasti Amranand said yesterday, adding that more gas should be supplied to power plants once the third natural-gas pipeline was completed.
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Thai employees happy with jobs and bosses: survey
A new international workplace survey released by Kelly Services on Wednesday has found that more than half of Thai employees are happy in their work, and they also believe that their bosses are doing a good job.
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Japan pact to go to Cabinet for approval
The draft of the Thai-Japanese Free-Trade Agreement (FTA) will be sent to the Cabinet for approval next Tuesday, a source said yesterday.
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Rating for Thai Re revised
Standard and Poor's Ratings Services has revised its outlook on its BBB+ local currency long-term counterparty credit and insurer financial-strength ratings on Thai Reinsurance Public (Thai Re) to "positive" from "stable". At the same time, the ratings were affirmed.
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New music downloads from RS
RS is offering downloads of MP3 digital formats for music videos and music-video karaoke at Bt30 per digital music licence, while GMM Digital Domain provides a similar service via its iKeyclub project.
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CONSUMER GOODS
Panasonic ups local sales forecast
Strong dealer network and new-format TVs driving growth
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LATE NEWS
SEC approves use of parent
The Securities and Exchange Commission yesterday gave Thai units of multinational companies the green light to use their parent companies' credit ratings for issuing local debentures.
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True subsidiary plans its own nationwide phone network
True Corp subsidiary R&R Com-munications plans to roll out anBt8-billion telephone network across the country in the next five to seven years.
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