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  • Tesco looks to open 750 new convenience stores in Thailand

    Tesco looks to open 750 new convenience stores in Thailand

    by James Davey, Editing by Paul Sandle Tesco, the UK’s largest retailer, has announced that it could grow its business in Thailand by opening 750 new convenience-style stores. There are currently1,583 Tesco stores in Thailand. Tesco’s Asian investment plunge will likely target the Chinese and South Korean markets as well. The Thai subsidiary, Tesco Lotus, was the first western supermarket to set up in the country 12 years ago. For westerners, the Tesco Lotus experience is familiar yet strange, with durian, dragon fruit and guava replacing strawberries and plums in UK Tescos.

  • True Digital Park opens in Sukhumvit 101 Road, Bangkok

    True Digital Park opens in Sukhumvit 101 Road, Bangkok

    Under the concept of ‘One Roof, All Possibilities’, the new True Digital Park is now ready to support the country in driving the digital economy. The “Work Space” is a workplace and digital innovation development space.

  • One million come out to protest in Hong Kong over China’s new extradition law

    One million come out to protest in Hong Kong over China’s new extradition law

    Huge crowds, estimated to be over 1 million, massed in Hong Kong over the weekend to protest against pro-beijing leaders allowing extraditions to the mainland.

  • Final design for Phuket Light Rail wrapped up next week

    Final design for Phuket Light Rail wrapped up next week

    A final design of light rail (tram) project in Phuket should be concluded by next week, said, as a dispute over how the rail structure will be laid is close to being settled. Deputy Transport Minister Pailin Chuchottaworn says recent talks have been focussing on the design of tram track construction along some of the densely populated areas from the airport to Phuket Town. Last week it was revealed that the budget for the public transport project had blown out an additional two billion baht.

  • Nation Multimedia Group takes legal action over alleged copyright violation

    Nation Multimedia Group takes legal action over alleged copyright violation

    The Nation Multimedia Group is filing criminal cases against two media monitoring service companies for violation of its copyright. NMG’s subsidiaries Krungthep Turakij Media, Nation News Network and Kom Chad Luek Media, as plaintiffs, filed criminal cases with the Central Intellectual Property and International Trade Court on April 9 against iSentia Bangkok and iSentia Monitoring Services (Thailand)

  • Phuket’s new town planning code will radically change island

    Phuket’s new town planning code will radically change island

    Thailand’s Department of Public Works and Town & Country Planning is finalising sweeping new development regulations for Phuket.

  • Patong businessman blames “State sponsored extortion” for town’s latest tourism woes

    Patong businessman blames “State sponsored extortion” for town’s latest tourism woes

    Patong’s best known businessmen and local identity Peechawut ‘Prab’ Keesin, son of long-serving Patong Mayor Pian Keesin, has posted claims saying that “state sponsored extortion”, in the form of taxes, is forcing prices up for tourists. His post, along with photos of empty Patong streets, says the charges are forcing businesses out and tourists to leave. “Patong is now facing economic problems as it is now the low season, as well as the country’s economic situation

  • WeWork opens up in Bangkok. What is WeWork?

    WeWork opens up in Bangkok. What is WeWork?

    “This will pave the way for WeWork’s unique proposition to connect two major groups within the WeWork community: corporations looking to innovate, and start-ups looking to grow and better establish their business.” WeWork has started operations in Thailand. So what is WeWork?

  • Central’s new Suvarnabhumi lifestyle centre set to open late August

    Central’s new Suvarnabhumi lifestyle centre set to open late August

    PHOTO: Central Pattana Central Village, a new luxury retail outlet situated near Suvarnabhumi International Airport, is 70% finished. Wallaya Chirathivat, deputy chief executive of Central Pattana, says the new lifestyle shopping precinct is scheduled to open on August 31.

  • German hotelier claims he paid 800,000 baht bribe to operate his unlicensed villa on Samui

    German hotelier claims he paid 800,000 baht bribe to operate his unlicensed villa on Samui

    PHOTOS: Channel 7 A German man has told investigators yesterday that he paid ‘some Thais’ 800,850 baht after they threatened to shut down his luxury villa during construction. 47 year old Ulrich Schmidt claims he was visited during the construction phase of his Best World Vision Villas project and he paid the ‘tea money’ in the belief it would allow him to operate his business unhindered. Channel 7 reports that since then he has been renting out rooms and operating the villa as a hotel