enlarge Some 100 pig farmers protest in front of Australian Embassy in Bangkok to demand Australia to stop exporting its frozen pork innards to Thailand.
They said they had been facing declining income, thanks to price cutting export of porks from Australia.//Photo by Nanthasit Nitmatha
LPG truck collision sparks explosion fear
Firemen were frantically struggling to contain the leak of highly-inflammable gas from a tanker truck that collided with a trailer on the inbound Bang Na-Trat Highway less than half kilometre from The Nation's head office.
Ousted PM criticises junta crackdown 'unfair'
Deposed Thai premier Thaksin Shinawatra said Thursday the junta's crackdown on his activities was unfair after the military revoked his diplomatic passport and banned television coverage of him.
AEC gets little out of Panthongtae
Panthongtae Shinawatra, son of ex-premier Thaksin, told the Assets Examination Committee yesterday that his mother's personal secretary took care of the sale of his Shin Corp shares to Singapore's Temasek Holdings and he just signed the paperwork, a panel member said.
Investors in a pickle over new foreign business law
Confusion was the order of the day yesterday as international clients phoned their law firms in Bangkok asking for clarification and advice on how they should restructure their businesses in the wake of the Cabinet's approval of the draft amendment to the Foreign Business Act.
FOREIGN BUSINESS ACT SET steadies after telecom exemption
After a sharp plunge on Tuesday, the Thai stock market headed up yesterday, thanks to the authorities' announcement that telecom companies were partially exempt from the amended Foreign Business Act.