Great op-ed last week by Voranai Vanijaka in the Bangkok Post talking about the fading power that is known as the yellow shirts or PAD. Close friends know the vitriol I’ll use when talking about this group given how they impacted my family, friends and myself. When the Criminal Court on Feb 28 this year sentenced […]

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I’m actually a member of this fitness chain, why? Because it’s incredibly cheap and I know value where I see it!! But my membership cost me THB 10k up front and after 3 years an annual payment of THB 3,000 (this was negotiated back in 2009) we knew that this company wouldn’t be able to […]

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Notable Transactions: Buys: BGH again, from my understanding after talking with various market participants, K. Prasert wants to accumulate shares to ensure that he can still maintain shareholder control over the future of BGH Sells: TUF – the Chairman decides to a substantial amount of shares in the market PPC – Quite odd for directors […]

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Its not often we get to read about Thailand in a non-negative way on Bloomberg. The Thai Government Pension Fund has decided to begin investing in assets in both the US and Europe. Just further evidence that Thailand no longer only looks inward. “The stagnate economic environment in the U.S. and Europe offers a great opportunity for […]

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BCA had a recent comment on Thailand with the key points being: 1. No rationale for monetary easing in Thailand given inflationary pressures 2. Growth set to recover post-floods and substantial fiscal stimulus will ensure growth remains strong 3. Thai equity market is a Micro play not Macro and they recommend to underweight the market […]

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This following the opening of Laos stock market. I’m looking forward to seeing the growth coming from the Laos, Vietnam, Cambodia and Mynamar markets for the next 10-20 years, as Thailand will only stand to benefit from those frontier markets “I think we are now in the cycle for these four Asean markets to emerge […]

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It’s been one hectic week with the holidays and updates to send out to clients, thus sorry for the slow updates here. Just wanted to make a quick comment on Rayong Purifier Plc which had shot up quite high intraday today on rumours: “As appeared in “Thun Hoon” newspaper on April 17, 2012 that “Petron […]

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