AOT AOT expects passenger pass-through via its 6 airports to reach 5.36mn during the 14-day Songkran festive season, an increase of 12.05% YoY, with 32,000 flights, up 7.22%YoY (Kao Hoon, 05/04/17) Comment: What slowdown in tourism?   BIZ BIZ wins a project for radiation therapy machine installation worth Bt84.9mn at Roi-et Hospital. The contract will […]

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BAY BAY targets SME loans growth of 3.8% this year, raising loans to Bt160bn. 2017 loan growth will be lower than last year’s 14% because it will focus on credit quality. It expects bad debt to be lower than last year in line with economic recovery. It targets to be the main bank for customers. […]

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BEM BEM expects revenue growth of 10% for rail operations and 2% for expressway, on the back of a full year of revenue from the MRT Purple Line and Sri Rat outer ring. It plans to buy 35 new trains. The MRT Blue Line extension is expected to open ahead of schedule, boosting ridership above […]

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A new Excise Tax Act will come into effect this September, the top Excise Department figure said. Somchai Poolsavasdi, director-general of the Excise Department, said the newly drafted Excise Tax Act will come into effect 180 days, or September 16, after the bill was publicised by the Royal Gazette on March 20, according to a […]

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A wonderful opinion piece/article on Trump, the US government, the issues its facing, the economy. Just wonderful. Here are some snippets and a link to the rest of the paper As I said at the beginning, there are three impediments to the Trump administration making significant economic progress in its first year. The first is […]

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And so the rubbish that was raised by the government 6-8 weeks ago has finally subsided. The Agricultural Land Reform Office (Alro) said Wednesday that 16 wind farm projects located on Sor Por Kor government land are legal and can continue as planned. … Gen Chatchai said Alro also found that the 16 companies have […]

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BIG BIG aims for full-year revenue growth of 10-20%. It is holding Big Camera Festival 2017 to boost 2Q17 revenue. (Thun Hoon, 30/03/17) Comment: Potentially Q1 and Q2 could show decent YoY numbers but I doubt there’ll be anything explosive unless there is a new business plan that the management team has in mind CK […]

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ANAN ANAN plans to launch 17 projects, valued at Bt41.8bn. This will lift its backlog from Bt41.2bn – enough to cover revenue through next year. (Thun Hoon, 29/03/17) Comment: And the story continues the same as it has been for the past few years for ANAN, whilst the smart city story is a nice just […]

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