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THAI will utilise its five Boeing 737s, and rent two narrow bodied aircraft for the first year of operations. The new carrier will need 11 aircraft. Each of the aircraft will feature up to 99percent economy class seats, with no business or first class. http://www.nationmultimedia.com/2011/05/21/business/THAI-to-launch-own-low-costairline-next-year-30155842.html
Plans to switch Bangkok taxis' engines to compressed natural gas (CNG) from liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) have hit a snag. http://www.bangkokpost.com/business/economics/237724/cng-conversions-stalled
While most museums display real, rare and precious items, there is one museum that showcases fake items instead. With more than a thousand of fake items displayed next to their genuine counterparts, the Tilleke & Gibbins Museum of Counterfeit Goods reveals how easily you can be fooled into thinking some fake items that are widely sold across Thailand and Southeast Asia are the real thing. http://www.bangkokpost.com/travel/localtrips/237409/spot-the-fakes
TOURISTS will have greater difficulty finding pirate movies and music on copy CDs after a Phuket crackdown busted secret sales rooms in raids on a total of 13 stores around Patong yesterday. http://phuketwan.com/tourism/phuket-raid-exposes-secret-pirate-stores-copy-drought-tipped-14052/
Long-standing questions about whether Bangkok should have two airports fully operating simultaneously look set to drag on for the next government to decide, a senior official of Airports of Thailand Plc (AoT) said yesterday. http://www.bangkokpost.com/business/aviation/236217/airport-debate-likely-to-be-put-on-hold
Thai AirAsia (TAA) saw its passenger load increase by 22.7% year-on-year in the first quarter to 1.81 million, further cementing its dominance of the local budget air travel market. http://www.bangkokpost.com/business/aviation/236025/thai-airasia-widens-lead-in-local-budget-market
Two children of an Irish businessman were thrown into a well while his housekeeper working with ‘organised criminals’ set about to defraud him of his mansion and six other houses on the Thai island of Phuket, it was claimed today...http://www.andrew-drummond.com/view-story.php?sid=389
Bribery, red tape and corruption have to be reduced before Thailand becomes non-competitive and unsuitable for many corporations, which would seek to invest elsewhere, a roundtable on corporate good governance concluded last week.http://www.nationmultimedia.com/2011/05/02/business/Widespred-corruption-undermining-business-causing--30154373.html
Aiam Cambhiranon, 61, can be seen almost every day, from dusk to dawn, on a sidewalk at Wat Rai Khing, a popular temple in Nakhon Pathom's Sam Phran district, about 56km from Bangkok...http://www.bangkokpost.com/news/local/234724/beggar-s-act-of-generosity-to-temple-beggars-belief
The new skytrain line connecting On Nut and Bearing stations is due to open for public service on Aug 12, 2011, Bangkok Mass Transit System (BTS) spokesman Jed Sopitpongsatorn said on Monday. http://www.bangkokpost.com/news/transport/233613/on-nut-bearing-line-to-open-in-aug
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