Bangkok - Honda Motor Company's exports from Thailand reached 23.6 billion baht (674 million dollars) in the last quarter of 2008, down 12 per cent compared with the same period in 2007, the Japanese auto manufacturer revealed on Monday.
Total Honda exports from Thailand in 2008 amounted to 104.6 billion baht (2.9 billion dollars), up 4 per cent on the 2007 performance, according to figures released by Asian Honda Motor Company, Honda's regional office in South-East Asia.
Bangkok - Thai hospitals attracted an estimated 1.4 million foreign patients last year, earning the country about 70 billion baht (2 billion dollars) from medical tourism, media reports said Monday.
Tanatip Supparit, chief executive officer of Piyavate Hospital - one of about 30 Thai hospitals that cater to foreign patients - estimated that some 1.4 million foreigners received medical care in Thailand in 2008, with 800,000 receiving "complicated treatment," reported The Nation newspaper.
Bangkok - Erratic price fluctuations on the international market have forced gold shops in Bangkok's Chinatown district to shut their doors Monday, the start of the Chinese New Year.
Jitti Tangsitpakdi, president of the Gold Traders' Association of Thailand, said gold jewellery shops in Yaowarat, Bangkok's Chinatown, will stay closed until Wednesday to weather out the wild fluctuations in gold prices.
Bangkok - A free trade agreement between India and South-East Asia will be signed at the upcoming summit of the Association of South-East Asian Nations
(ASEAN) if the Thai parliament approves the pact, officials said Monday.
"The ASEAN Economic ministers have invited the Indian commerce minister to sign the FTA on February 26," said Tharit Charungvat, Thai Foreign Ministry spokesman.
Jakarta - Indonesia has denied requests by the United Nations refugee agency for access to 193 Myanmar boat people stranded in the westernmost province of Aceh, the foreign ministry said.
Foreign Ministry spokesman Teuku Faizasyah said that the boat people appeared to be part of about 1,000 refugees from Myanmar's Rohingya Muslim minority held and later released by the Thai military late last year.
The Myanmar boat people were found adrift off Sabang island in Aceh province on January 7 and are now being sheltered at the naval base.
Bangkok - A Thai opposition movement on Friday petitioned South-East Asian ambassadors to make a "gesture" against the country's new government at a regional summit next month.
An estimated 100 "Red Shirts" - supporters of former prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra, who was ousted in a 2006 coup and is now living in self-imposed exile - marched to the embassies of Myanmar and Singapore in Bangkok to press their petition.
Bangkok - Honda Motor Company's exports from Thailand reached 23.6 billion baht (674 million dollars) in the last quarter of 2008, down 12 per cent compared with the same period in 2007, the Japanese auto manufacturer revealed on Monday.
Bangkok - Thai hospitals attracted an estimated 1.4 million foreign patients last year, earning the country about 70 billion baht (2 billion dollars) from medical tourism, media reports said Monday. 
Bangkok - Erratic price fluctuations on the international market have forced gold shops in Bangkok's Chinatown district to shut their doors Monday, the start of the Chinese New Year. 
Bangkok - A free trade agreement between India and South-East Asia will be signed at the upcoming summit of the Association of South-East Asian Nations 
Jakarta - Indonesia has denied requests by the United Nations refugee agency for access to 193 Myanmar boat people stranded in the westernmost province of Aceh, the foreign ministry said.
Bangkok - A Thai opposition movement on Friday petitioned South-East Asian ambassadors to make a "gesture" against the country's new government at a regional summit next month.
