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Thai Charoen Corporation Group (TCC), the conglomerate controlled by liquor tycoon Charoen Sirivadhanabhakdi, is gearing up to expand into the agricultural industry in Thailand and neighbouring countries.

The incoming government will make megaprojects worth at least 500 billion baht its top priority soon after the new cabinet members take office, Prime Minister Samak Sundaravej said yesterday.

City of Angels

“Krung Thep Mahanakhon Amon Rattanakosin Mahinthara Yuthaya Mahadilok Phop Noppharat Ratchathani Burirom Udomratchaniwet Mahasathan Amon Piman Awatan Sathit”, better known to us as Bangkok, is the gateway to SE Asia.
Though the long name may seem strange, don´t forget that “El Pueblo de Nuestra Senora la Reina de los Angeles de Porciuncula” nowadays is known as [...]

VIETNAM: February 4, 2008 HANOI - Vietnamese military technicians have capped an area of a former US military airport with concrete to stop dioxin or “agent orange” contaminating a lake, part of a j…

MSG in Lao Food (Bang Nuah)

Center right you can see the classic long crystaline structure of MSGLinksMSGIFIC dot orgIn the early 1900s a Japanese scientist was studying which parts of the tongue recognise different tastes. When testing his wife’s soup flavoured with seaweed, h…

Nippon Steel Corp, Japan’s JFE Holdings Inc and China’s Baosteel have applied separately for incentives to invest at least 100 billion baht ($3.04 billion) each in Thailand, the state Boar…

HANOI, February 3 (Itar-Tass) - Vietnam resolutely denounced a visit by head of the Taiwan administration Chen Shui-bian to the disputable Spratly Archipelago in the South China Sea, says a statement …

The Rhyslings Should Recognize Whole Books

As a quick background: In the field of poetry, the respected Science Fiction Poetry Association coordinates the Rhyslings, two awards for “Best Long Poem” (50+ lines) and one for “Best Short Poem” (1-49 lines), and are presently the highest awards in s…

Qatargas to supply LNG to Thailand’s PTT

(Reuters) - Qatargas said on Sunday it would supply 1 million tonnes per year of liquefied natural gas to Thailand’s PTT PTT.BK as early as 2011. ‘Qatargas … has signed heads of agreement to supply …

VietNamNet Bridge - The Vietnamese Embassies in many countries held get-togethers with foreign friends and overseas Vietnamese on February 1 and 2 to celebrate the traditional Lunar New Year (Tet) festival, which will fall on February 6-10.

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