Thai Floods Wash Over Global Supply Chains
Source: Newyork Times
Bangkok :: Thailand | updated 2012-01-06 21:16:10 -0800 | entertainment-news
In the neck-deep floodwaters of an industrial zone here, workers are using Jet Skis and wooden skiffs to transport stacks of computer components out of waterlogged factories. Three weeks after monsoon runoff swamped more than 1,000 factories across central Thailand,...
Thailand flood situation worsens – Bangkok subway threatened
Posted by: prabirghose
Bangkok :: Thailand | updated 2012-07-27 18:02:54 -0700 | travel-news
The worst flood in Thailand in the last 50-years has taken a huge toll on the 12-million populations of the Bangkok and other cities. Already more than 400 persons are believed to have died and millions have lost their livelihood....
Floods encroach deeper into Bangkok, risk subway
Source: Farang Pai
Bangkok :: Thailand | updated 2012-01-09 09:42:04 -0800 | green-news
Floodwaters have reached the northern edge of central Bangkok and are threatening the Thai capital's subway system. The water that has been creeping through northern Bangkok for more than week flooded Lad Phrao intersection on Friday. The area is home...
Thai flood toll extends to local firms
Source: Business World
Bangkok :: Thailand | updated 2012-02-25 18:30:46 -0800 | business-news
Thailand's worst floods in decades, a development local officials say highlights heightened global challenges and may prompt a rethink of manufacturing hubs. Japanese component makers in March this year -- has seen its yearend recovery hopes dashed by the floods...
The Thais go in for breast slapping to improve one’s figure
Posted by: prabirghose
Bangkok :: Thailand | updated 2012-07-27 18:03:43 -0700 | travel-news
The Thais have developed a non surgical treatment to improve the size of one’s breasts without going in for breast implants. Called the ‘breast slapping’ technique, it is yet another of the non conventional body treatments that Thailand is known...
Flood Overwhelms Thailand: PHOTOS
Source: International Business Times
Bangkok :: Thailand | updated 2012-01-04 02:07:43 -0800 | green-news
Water levels in Bangkok's main river hit a new high as residents continued to leave the Thai capital ahead of possible flooding at the weekend. Flooding have overwhelm seven of Bangkok's 50 districts, mostly on the northern outskirts, Officials have...
Viktor Bout guilty of arms deal
Source: BBC
Bangkok :: Thailand | updated 2012-01-05 00:04:50 -0800 | political-news
Viktor Bout guilty of Colombian rebel arms deal A former Soviet military officer has been found guilty in a New York court of attempting to sell heavy weapons to a Colombian terror group. Prosecutors said Viktor Bout, who has been...
Thailand floods to put the grinch in Christmas
Source: The Age
Bangkok :: Thailand | updated 2012-01-02 12:35:59 -0800 | technology-news
Adam Carey October 29, 2011 Factories have been closed down in the flood-affected areas north of Bangkok. Thailand, which has killed more than 370 people and left hundreds of thousands homeless, is also hitting supplies of consumer goods in Australia...
Japanese output and spending dip
Source: BBC
Tōkyō :: Japan | updated 2011-12-28 10:38:04 -0800 | business-news
Japanese factory output and household spending fall Manufacturing is one of the biggest contributors to the Japanese economy Japan's industrial output and household spending fell in September, raising fresh concerns about the health of its economic recovery.
Toyota loses its top spot
Source: Mail and Guardian
Bangkok :: Thailand | updated 2011-12-28 10:39:28 -0800 | business-news
After nearly a decade of dominance by a Japanese-American duopoly, the global car market is braced for a German takeover amid predictions that Volkswagen will be the biggest- selling manufacturer this year. Toyota will be knocked off the top spot...
Phuket property: A top class property at a knock-down price
Posted by: Rebecca Smith
Phuket :: Thailand | updated 2012-04-05 06:42:42 -0700 | travel-news
Are you interested in making some money? Or getting a 5-star property in Phuket, Thailand at a knock-down price? If you are, maybe you should come and have a look at this villa. It’s at Surin Beach and this is...
Makro keeps all branches open
Source: The Nation
Bangkok :: Thailand | updated 2011-12-26 15:23:33 -0800 | business-news
As our customers desperately need consumption goods but are reluctant to travel the flooded distance to buy goods. We try all possible means to meet their demands," said Pariyanuch Na Taguatung, Marketing Director of Siam Makro. Consumer and consumption goods...
Coca-Cola mobilises supports for Thailand
Source: The Nation
Bangkok :: Thailand | updated 2011-12-25 14:14:05 -0800 | business-news
Inclusive of Coca-Cola (Thailand) Ltd, ThaiNamthip Ltd. and Haad Thip Plc, the group plans to work closely with Thai Red Cross Society and Habitat for Humanity Thailand to implement a sustainable framework of 'Relief' and 'Rebuilding'. With the matching contribution...
Bangkok braces for unstoppable flood waters
Source: Channel NewsAsia
Bangkok :: Thailand | updated 2011-12-29 05:30:58 -0800 | green-news
Millions of people in the Thai capital nervously prepared for the advancing and seemingly unstoppable flood waters Monday after a fresh warning for residents to evacuate certain danger zones. The Bangkok Metropolitan Authority (BMA) said late Sunday that large volumes...
Bangkok Opens Floodgates as Government Response Is Criticized
Source: International Herald Tribune
Bangkok :: Thailand | updated 2011-12-26 13:25:45 -0800 | green-news
Damir Sagolj/Reuters A man waded through water in the village of Kajee Nush on the outskirts of Bangkok on Friday. She said she would strictly enforce a natural disaster law, which stops short of declaring a state of emergency, at...
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