The debt financing is very cheap in a Thai and Asian context.
Now as Asian forests are cleared, Thai plantation owners are favouring a different sort of progress.
Other Asian currencies such as the Thai baht and the South Korean won are also undervalued.
Putting the debt in U.S. dollars and possibly yen is smart and hedging the debt will limit currency fluctuations (note that un-hedged debt burnt many Thai corporates during the Asian crisis).
It is, in other words, about avoiding excesses a notion that has helped many Thai businesses weather the 1997 Asian financial crisis and the more recent financial crisis affecting much of the Western world.
ATHENS, Greece -- Udomporn Polsak became the first Thai woman to strike Olympic gold as Asian athletes enjoyed another medal-laden day at the Games.
He was lucky not to be badly hit when the Thai currency was dramatically devalued during the 1997 Asian financial meltdown.
The capital, Bangkok, combines the modern skyscrapers of a bustling Asian metropolis with the ancient temples and monuments of previous Thai civilizations, dating back hundreds of years.
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For a country that went through a notorious currency collapse in 1997, baht movements have special significance, although the fundamentals of the Thai economy seem more solid now than during the hot money flow that preceded the Asian financial crisis.
The Thai player, who was given a bye in the first round, celebrated becoming the first Asian ever to reach the world's top ten on Monday, but he could not justify his high seeding against clay-court specialist Sanchez.
Proposals on a large number of Asian freshwater turtles and tortoises and other species popular with pet owners were accepted by the government negotiators meeting in the Thai capital.
Squeezed between these two great powers, southeast Asian nations will come under growing pressure to take sides unless they can stay united, said Mr Pitsuwan, a Thai diplomat who will step down next month after five years as the head of Asean.
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