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AOT AoT plans to increase airport taxes next year to cut its losses – The board of Airports of Thailand Plc (AoT) plans to raise its passenger service charge from 100 baht to 200 baht for passengers on domestic flights and from 700 to 800 baht for passengers on international flights to cut its losses. […]
Read More →Finally! We’ve been waiting on this for years, land lords in Thailand have enjoyed owning tremendous amounts of land for generations without any taxes spent on it whatsoever. While the annual tax %-age is low @ 0.5% to a max of 2% of land value when compared to what I see in Europe and the […]
Read More →DCC Releases 3Q13 and announces dividend — DCC 3Q13 net profit was reported at Bt295mn on revenue of Bt1.7bn. In the 9M13, net profit came to Bt1.1bn. It has announced a dividend of Bt0.72 per share. (Khao Hoon, 24/10/13) Comment: It was and continues to be one of the easiest plays for upcountry growth in […]
Read More →ADVANC AIS introduces celebrities app for new revenue – Mobile leader Advanced Info Service (AIS) is extending its chargeable mobile content service in a drive to boost the strength of its non-voice business and increase revenue. The company launched yesterday what it calls a celebrities app, dubbed the first time in the mobile industry brand […]
Read More →The Thai Market had a good bounce last week with the US govt shutdown finally over. 3Q13 numbers will be what most people are focusing on for the next 4 weeks and with banks mostly showing continued growth, the smaller financials (i.e. tisco and kkp) are disappointing. Also with prop traders having done most of […]
Read More →Notable Transactions Buy(s) THB 341 mn BGH – K. Prasert, director and one of the founders of BGH, has continued to buy back a lot of his shares, THB 291 mn IFEC – Looks like K. Narong is selling out to a new shareholder  Sell(s) THB 97 mn CHG – Again the selling continues […]
Read More →AGE Wins coal orders from China — AGE won new coal orders from China of 300,000 tons and this will help push its international sales for the year to more than 1mn tons. Management expects total 2013 coal sales of 2.5mn tons, with revenue of over Bt5bn. (Khao Hoon, 21/10/13) CPALL Bond issue — CPALL […]
Read More →While the news for most of this year has been about the fact that too many cars were sold last year domestically and that auto manufacturers were going to suffer tremendously. What we’ve seen is that yes there has been a slowdown in domestic purchases and Thailand’s car exports continue to grow strongly and with […]
Read More →Thailand King endorses budget bill – The 2014 budget bill received His Majesty the King’s endorsement on Friday and was published in the Royal Gazette, enabling the government to immediately disburse funds for the fiscal year that began on Oct 1. The House of Representatives passed the Bt2.5trn budget in late August and the bill […]
Read More →AMATA Sandbagging its IE — AMATA has prepared 500 “big bags†to protect the factories in its IE and is closely watching the flooding situation, after Nari typhoon pushed water levels up to 30-40cm on roads around Phase 1-3 factories. In phrases 7-9 it is pumping at full capacity and is prepared to deal with […]
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