February 3, 2009
Thailandâs banks are seeking a 54 billion baht (US$1.54 billion) government aid package designed to help them restart lending to businesses and lift the economy out of a probable recession. The Thai Bankersâ Association asked the government to provide 50 billion baht for loans to exporters and 4 billion baht to recapitalize the state-run Small [...]
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January 16, 2009
VietNamNet Bridge – Two Thai football players of Hoang Anh Gia Lai club, Nirut and Sakda, were nationalized in Vietnam, disclosed the club’s Chairman Doan Nguyen Duc and Managing Director Huynh Mau on Thursday. Doan Van Nirut and Doan Van Sakda.VietNamNet Bridge – Two Thai football players of Hoang Anh Gia Lai club, Nirut and [...]
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January 14, 2009
VietNamNet Bridge – Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung asked Thai Nguyen province to make full use of its advantages in industry and human resources to promote socio-economic development in the region and to transform the province into one of Vietnam’s major economic, educational and training centres. Photo: VOVThe PM held a working session with Thai [...]
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December 23, 2008
Thailand’s new cabinet led by Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva was sworn in in front of the King Bhumibol Adulyadej on Monday. Thailand’s Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva leaves from the Government House after take a group photo of a new cabinet in Bangkok December 22, 2008. New Thai Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva unveiled a cabinet on [...]
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December 14, 2008
VietNamNet Bridge – Ousted Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra accused the country’s judicial and military system of interfering in politics and destroying democracy in a pre-recorded speech delivered to his supporters who rallied at Bangkok’s National Stadium Saturday night. Supporters of former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra gather at Supachalasai stadium in Bangkok on December 13, [...]
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December 11, 2008
VietNamNet Bridge – Thai golfer Thongchai Jaidee won the Hana Bank Vietnam Masters trophy at the Vietnam Golf and Country Club in HCMC on Sunday. Thai golfer Thongchai Jaidee holds up the trophy of the Hana Bank Vietnam Masters at the Vietnam Golf and Country Club on Sunday.Thongchai holed a five foot putt for par [...]
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December 2, 2008
Thailand’s Constitution Court on Tuesday ruled the three ruling parties in the coalition government– People Power Party (PPP), Chart Thai Party and Matchima Thipataya Party were guilty of electoral fraud charges and ordered them to be dissolved. Thai government supporters hold a rally to protest against Thai Constitution Court’s order to dissolve the three ruling [...]
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December 2, 2008
Muslims from southern Thailand weigh their bags in the departure hall of Bangkok’s Suvarnabhumi airport November 30, 2008, before being transported by bus to U-Tapao airport A grenade killed an anti-government protester at Bangkok’s blockaded Don Muang airport on Tuesday, hours before a vote fraud case that could force the prime minister and much of [...]
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December 2, 2008
Vietnamese people on the free bus from Thailand to Cambodia, which left the Vietnamese Embassy in Bangkok at 4 a.m. Monday Vietnam’s Embassy in Thailand Monday organized a free bus to help stranded Vietnamese travelers leave Thailand, which is in the grip of antigovernment protests. Vietnam Airlines has also sent special flights to repatriate Vietnamese [...]
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December 1, 2008
VietNamNet Bridge – Party General Secretary Nong Duc Manh, accompanied by National Assembly deputies from the northern province of Thai Nguyen, met voters in the province’s Dai Tu District and talked to them about the work Dai Tu needed to generate solutions and models to help farming households which cultivate tea, livestock and forest products [...]
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