Federation of Thai Industries

Type: Organization

Name: Federation of Thai Industries

First reported 3 hours ago - Updated 3 hours ago - 1 reports

Who's responsible?

The energy minister has reasons to upset about the southern power outage, as no one at the electricity supplying agencies made the decision to save the region.Energy Minister Pongsak Raktapongpaisal on Wednesday ordered the electricity agencies and the ... [Published Bangkok Post - 3 hours ago]

Entities: Surat Thani (Thailand), Hat Yai (Thailand), Phuket (Thailand)

First reported 11 hours ago - Updated 6 hours ago - 2 reports

Yingluck: Find cause of Phuket/South blackout

BANGKOK: Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra has ordered an investigation into the causes of the massive power blackout in 14 southern provinces on Tuesday night, and the preparation of contingency plans to ensure it does not happen again.Bangkok PostPatong ... [Published The Phuket News - 6 hours ago]

Entities: Phuket (Thailand), Bang Saphan (Thailand), Bangkok, Prachuap Khiri Khan (Thailand), Ratchaburi (Thailand)

First reported 8 hours ago - Updated 8 hours ago - 1 reports

Blackout will cost industry 'billions'

The huge power blackout in the South on Tuesday night could cost the food and rubber processing sector about 10 billion baht, and the government must ensure it does not happen again, Federation of Thai Industries (FTI) secretary-general Tanit Sorat said ... [Published Bangkok Post - 8 hours ago]

Entities: Hat Yai, Federation of Thai Industries, Phang Nga

First reported May 20 2013 - Updated May 20 2013 - 1 reports

THAILAND: Sales up 25% in April

New vehicle sales in Thailand increased by 24.9% to 109,658 units in April, compared with 87,788 units a year earlier, according to data released by the Federation of Thai Industries.Cumulative sales in the first four months of 2013 were up by 42.4% at ... [Published Just-Auto - May 20 2013]

Entities: Thailand, Federation of Thai Industries, Vehicle Sales

First reported May 18 2013 - Updated May 18 2013 - 1 reports

Ranong Provincial Federation of Thai Industries: Strong baht causes losses at 20 seafood processing factories; production for export cut 30-50%

Ranong Provincial Federation of Thai Industries: Strong baht causes losses at 20 seafood processing factories; production for export cut 3 ... [Published MCOT - May 18 2013]

Entities: Federation of Thai Industries

First reported May 18 2013 - Updated May 18 2013 - 1 reports

NACC warns of graft

The government's 350-billion-baht water management and flood prevention project is susceptible to corruption, the National Anti-Corruption Commission (NACC) says.Commissioner Klanarong Chanthik said an NACC subcommittee, chaired by Methee Klongkaew, had ... [Published Bangkok Post - May 18 2013]

Entities: Corruption, Water Management, Federation of Thai Industries, Crime Suppression, National Anti-Corruption Commission

First reported May 17 2013 - Updated May 17 2013 - 3 reports

FTI nervous about volatility

Business leaders are calling on authorities to keep closely monitoring the baht, saying the currency could resume appreciation amid continuing capital inflows and massive liquidity globally.Although the baht has weakened recently, the Federation of Thai ... [Published Bangkok Post - May 17 2013]

Entities: Volatility, Payungsak Chartsutipol, Federation of Thai Industries

First reported May 17 2013 - Updated May 17 2013 - 1 reports

Baht strong but Thai auto exports weaken

BANGKOK, May 17 – The 6 per cent appreciation of Thailand’s baht since late last year has reduced profits in the domestic auto industry to only 3-4 per cent, a representative of the Federation of Thai Industries (FTI) said on Friday. ... [Published MCOT - May 17 2013]

Entities: Federation of Thai Industries, Bangkok, Thailand

First reported May 17 2013 - Updated May 17 2013 - 1 reports

TABLE-Thai April auto sales up 24.9 pct on year - FTI

BANGKOK, May 17 (Reuters) - Data published by the Federation of Thai Industries (FTI) KEY DATA Thai monthly car and truck sales Apr Mar Feb Jan Dec Units 109,658 156,951 129,910 125,817 144,676 Y/Y pct +24.91 +41.40 +42.30 +63.36 +165.10 CONTEXT Sales ... [Published Wards Auto.com - May 17 2013]

Entities: Federation of Thai Industries, Bangkok, Flooding

First reported May 15 2013 - Updated May 15 2013 - 1 reports

Measures to fight surging baht and labour shortage

Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra today outlined an urgent seven-point measure to rein in the surging baht and tackle Thailand’s labour shortage.According to a government spokesman, Deputy Prime Minister/Finance Minister Kittiratt Na-Ranong was instructed ... [Published Thailand Business News - May 15 2013]

Entities: Ministry of Finance, Thai Chamber of Commerce, Federation of Thai Industries

First reported May 15 2013 - Updated May 15 2013 - 1 reports

Public and Private Sectors Joining Hands to Stabilize the Baht

The public and private sectors share similar views on the appreciation of the baht and they are working together to curb the stronger baht.The Cabinet, during its meeting on 14 May 2013, acknowledged the results of the meeting held on 13 May to discuss ... [Published The Government Public Relations Department - May 15 2013]

Entities: Thailand, Bank of Thailand, Federation of Thai Industries, Kittiratt Na-Ranong

First reported May 15 2013 - Updated May 15 2013 - 1 reports

Concerned authorities agrees on Thai economy?s steady growth

Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Finance presided over a meeting on the impact of Baht value on Thai economy and revealed that all concerned authorities came to terms that Thai economy was still on a steady rise. The Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) ... [Published Noodls - May 15 2013]

Entities: Bank of Thailand, Monetary Policy Committee, Arkhom Termpittayapaisith

Quotes

...the Egat deputy governor in charge of transmission system, said authority to make the decision rested on the Energy Regulatory Commission. "Regulators have to authorise what areas are to be blacked out until the supply from the plants returns to normal" he said

Who's responsible? [Published Bangkok Post - 3 hours ago]

"Egat has no choice but to go ahead with the Krabi plant as scheduled" Sutas reiterated

South needs more power plants: Egat [Published The Nation - Thailand - 5 hours ago]

"At our development stage, we need to establish more cooperation around the world like what the Canberra Office is doing" Carcasses said

Vanuatu Prime Minister Makes Official Visit To Thailand [Published Pacific Islands Report - May 20 2013]

"We will continue to maintain a 10% market share of the country's total sugar cane output" said Mr Nathapun, who is also chairman of Thai Sugar Millers Corporation's policy working group and president of the Federation of Thai Industries' sugar...

Kaset Thai Sugar shoots for Q3 listing [Published Bangkok Post - May 19 2013]

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Who's responsible? [Published Bangkok Post - 3 hours ago]
South needs more power plants: Egat [Published The Nation - Thailand - 5 hours ago]
Yingluck: Find cause of Phuket/South blackout [Published The Phuket News - 6 hours ago]
Blackout will cost industry 'billions' [Published Bangkok Post - 8 hours ago]
Yingluck: Find cause of South blackout [Published Bangkok Post - 11 hours ago]
THAILAND: Sales up 25% in April [Published Just-Auto - May 20 2013]
Vanuatu Prime Minister Makes Official Visit To ... [Published Pacific Islands Report - May 20 2013]
Kaset Thai Sugar shoots for Q3 listing [Published Bangkok Post - May 19 2013]
Ranong Provincial Federation of Thai Industries... [Published MCOT - May 18 2013]
NACC warns of graft [Published Bangkok Post - May 18 2013]
FTI nervous about volatility [Published Bangkok Post - May 17 2013]
Industrial sentiment drops as forex still a worry [Published The Nation - Thailand - May 17 2013]
Good news, and bad [Published Bangkok Post - May 17 2013]
Baht strong but Thai auto exports weaken [Published MCOT - May 17 2013]
TABLE-Thai April auto sales up 24.9 pct on year... [Published Wards Auto.com - May 17 2013]
Measures to fight surging baht and labour shortage [Published Thailand Business News - May 15 2013]
Public and Private Sectors Joining Hands to Sta... [Published The Government Public Relations Department - May 15 2013]
Concerned authorities agrees on Thai economy?s ... [Published Noodls - May 15 2013]
Meeting eases BOT pressure [Published The Nation - Thailand - May 13 2013]
Workshop to help SMEs deal with strong baht [Published The Nation - Thailand - May 13 2013]
Car export value target to be revised [Published Bangkok Post - May 12 2013]
Easing of monetary policy to boost SET [Published The Nation - Thailand - May 12 2013]
Thai private sector pushes harder for governmen... [Published Pattaya Mail - May 10 2013]
Cutting policy rate option if economy slows: Pr... [Published The Nation - Thailand - May 09 2013]
Coca-Cola's labeling decision to drive nutritio... [Published Campaign Asia-Pacific - May 09 2013]
Cabinet mulls baht remedies [Published Bangkok Post - May 07 2013]
Continental to steer more parts to domestic ... [Published Bangkok Post - May 06 2013]
Demanding BOT act on baht is futile [Published The Nation - Thailand - May 05 2013]
Baht takes big chunk off exporters' profit [Published The Nation - Thailand - May 03 2013]
FTI warns on baht [Published Bangkok Post - May 03 2013]

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USD / THB – Industralist wants BOT to start int... [Published OANDA Forex Blog - Feb 01 2013] The Federation of Thai Industries (FTI) has made an official plea to Bank of Thailand (BOT) to start taking action to bring down the appreciating Baht. This is in response to BOT Governor Trairatvorakul who appeared laissez faire towards the issue, saying ...
Burmese migrants lose jobs after Thai wage hike [Published Democratic Voice of Burma » Analysis - Jan 08 2013] Thousands of Burmese migrants face unemployment after new minimum wage requirements imposed by the Thai government forced several factories and workshops to close down earlier this month. Many businesses, who employ cheap labour from neighbouring Burma, Cambodia and Laos, ...
Experts: New shale fields to help stabilise glo... [Published AdBanks.net - Dec 30 2012] ENERGY /p> Oil prices are expected to be fluctuate less in 2013, remaining on a par with or even softening slightly from 2012 levels, say energy experts. Suthep Liumsirijarern, director-general of the Energy Policy and Planning Office, said ...