Chon Buri, Thailand News

Aug. 22--Central Pattana Plc , the commercial property arm of the Central Group, is in talks with potential US and European investors to lease out its two-billion-baht hotel in Pattaya.

I have read that the Senate's deputy chairperson of the Foreign Affairs Committee, Priyananta Rangsit, said both Foreign Minister Tej Bunnag and Prime Minister Samak had the power to revoke Thaksin's passport.

The Bangkok Post reports that Thai cellco DTAC is preparing to launch commercial 3G mobile broadband services in Bangkok in the first quarter of next year.

Amata Summit Ready Built and 304 Industrial Park7 have invested Bt380 million to develop low-priced factories and warehouses to support small and medium-sized manufacturers.

Drivers should always remember that failing to park their cars properly can lead to a quarrel.

A pavilion of a temple in Thailand's central Chon Buri Province collapsed on Thursday afternoon, injuring more than 50 students who were visiting the temple, local radio reported.

Chon Buri - Fifty-eight students of girl-school Bangkok-based Saint Joseph Convent School were injured during an educational trip to this eastern province Thursday, police said.

Policeman takes five youngsters hostage, kills one, father missing, manhunt underway By Post reporters A massive manhunt is underway for a police lance corporal who abducted five school students and killed one ...

Industrial estates first appeared in Thailand in the 1970s, after the government introduced plans to raise standards of living by increasing agricultural, industrial and power production.

Currently, there appears to be a lot of troublesome news and people are attacking the performance of various ministers in Parliament.

The World Bank has lent its first support to a carbon-finance project in Thailand - to Village 10 in Chon Buri's Koh Sichang district - as a pilot to help villagers lift their incomes and living conditions.

PITSINEE JITPLEECHEEP & KRISSANA PARNSOONTHORN Central Retail Corporation Co , the country's largest retail chain, has approved a budget of 20 billion baht to expand its business in China over two years, double ...

YUTHANA PRAIWAN & PHUSADEE ARUNMAS The energy minister postponed a planned increase in the price of liquefied petroleum gas for use in vehicles after a severe shortage in the market raised suspicions vendors ...

The Saha Group has initiated a solar-cell project to reduce its oil consumption by at least 1 per cent this year.

Many are describing Thailand's system of government as not being "democratic". What do they wish to put in its place? Do they suggest the UK system, of an elected dictatorship? For example, I did not vote for ...

The Transportation Federation of Thailand claimed on Wednesday that it has idled 120,000 of the nation's 700,000 lorries to protest high fuel prices.

By Kingsley Wijayasinha The Nation Published on June 11, 2008 Joint venture STM will spend Bt5.4 billion to produce a vehicle that runs on alternative fuel Toyota Motor will invest an additional sum in Thailand ...

The Year of the Frog highlights how our amphibious friends are facing extinction Story by APINYA WIPATAYOTIN Kero Kero Keroppi and Kermit the Frog, your fellows are in danger.

By Chalida Ekvitthayavechnukul The Nation Published on May 31, 2008 Oxiana plans to start exploring for iron ore in the Eastern Seaboard area as soon as possible, with an eye to supplying steel blast furnaces ...

Business >> Wednesday May 28, 2008 RETAILING CPN set to spend B9.5bn on malls PITSINEE JITPLEECHEEP The listed shopping-complex developer Central Pattana Plc will spend 9.5 billion baht on three new shopping ...