Search Results for: Thai

BY KEITH NUTHALL

A THAILAND research agency has lost a long legal battle to force the European Commission to act against a French academic it claims duped them out of a Brussels grant. The Asian Institute of Technology (AIT), of Pathumthani, a non-profit-making technological and research agency, failed to persuade the European Court of Justice (ECJ) to declare invalid a Euro 27,481 payment made in 2002.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
KEMAL Dervis, a former Turkey economics minister has become the new United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) administrator. Meanwhile the Thai former World Trade Organisation chief Dr Supachai Panitchpakdi has become Secretary-General of UNCTAD, the UN Conference on Trade and Development.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
A THAILAND steel company has escaped from having to pay 58.9% anti-dumping duties on exports to the European Union (EU) of certain iron or steel tube or pipe-fittings. Benkan Co. Ltd, of Prapadaeng-Samutprakarn, has been exempted from the duties since 2000, which were renewed for other Thai producers in 2003.…

BY MARK ROWE
THE FEDERATION of Thai Industries has called for Thai planning rules to encourage industrial development around airports, notably promoting an “aerotropolis” within 30 kilometres of the country’s new major Suvarnabhumi airport, boosting jewellery, information technology and other light industries.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE WORLD Health Organisation (WHO) is investigating concerns that the first human-to-human transmission of bird flu has occurred in Thailand, sending scientists to check two recent cases. The WHO’s influenza coordinator Dr Klaus Stöhr said they wanted to establish whether they were caused by a “non-sustained, inefficient, dead-end street human-to-human transmission,” or whether the virus had mutated sufficiently to spread rapidly amongst humans.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE POULTRY sector worldwide is being threatened with a major loss of consumer confidence, with the World Health Organisation (WHO) investigating concerns that the first human-to-human transmission of bird flu has occurred in Thailand. It is sending scientists to check whether two recent cases were caused by a “non-sustained, inefficient, dead-end street human-to-human transmission,” or the virus had mutated sufficiently to spread rapidly amongst humans.…

BY MARK ROWE
THAILAND is to make it compulsory for poultry owners to buy insurance to cover the spread of several critical diseases on their livestock. The insurance will be required in order for farmers to obtain loans to rebuild or upgrade their chicken farms as a result of the bird flu crisis that has spread across Asia.…

BY MARK ROWE
THAILAND’S Thainox Steel Ltd has received approval from the country’s Commerce Ministry to increase the price of its stainless steel by 28 per cent to Baht 105.94 per kilogramme (GBPounds 1.85). Steel product makers have been lobbying to have government-regulated price ceilings lifted, citing raw material costs that are at 10-year highs.…

BY MARK ROWE
THE THAI steel industry has called for the country’s domestic ceiling price of finished steel products to be lifted to ease threats of a shortage. Local manufacturers fear that a shortage of locally made steel products is possible because the price of imported steel slab used as raw material has jumped by 75 per cent to US$450 per tonne, from US$250 a year ago.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
FRAUD is centre stage again in European Union (EU) news, following a series of high profile scandals, for instance in Eurostat. Now OLAF, the EU’s anti-fraud agency has produced an annual report showing that it is detecting more irregularities.…