Leong Hin admits the government probe but says that it can't explain the share-price movement.
But Hua Hin's best hotel may even yet reassert itself as a prime destination for stressed-out Bangkokians.
The Links Island and Leong Hin cases were both referred to the Commercial Affairs Department (CAD) by SGX.
Hua Hin no longer attracts hunters to "shoot leopards, deer, hares and doves, " as a 1920s guidebook put it.
America took its first batch, from the crowded Tham Hin camp, last month.
Plearn Warn is designed to emulate the Hua Hin of old, and it includes reproductions of traditional Thai wooden houses.
Lee Thorn, the head of the Jhai Foundation, an American-Lao organisation, has been working for nearly five years in the Hin Heup district.
To keep protesters at bay, the annual meeting, originally to have taken place in Bangkok in December, has been shifted to the seaside resort of Hua Hin.
"PS2 is in and Sega is out, " says Chan Wai Hin in his seller's stall in Hong Kong's Oriental 188 Shopping Center, a mobbed two-floor stop for gamers.
"I don't have any words to express the sorrow and suffering I feel when knowing his body will soon disappear, " Hin Mal, 79, told the Associated Press news agency.
More recently, the stock of the barely profitable construction company Leong Hin collapsed 90% over two days after the government investigated a brokerage in late April for unusual trading in the stock.
The Hua Hin resort is the ideal place to lie back and relax, best savored by clinging couples, families with young children and retired folk, a large percentage of them from northern Europe.
They tend to prefer the high-rise glamour of the Melia Hua Hin Hotel next door, though Thai families do enjoy the bungalows on the Sofitel's adjacent property, called Central Hua Hin Village (Central comes from the hotel's management by the Central Group).
Trouble is, this is the first time anything had been done, even though Leong Hin's stock had been exhibiting suspicious trading behavior for more than a year and a half--rising and falling over roughly six-month cycles by almost identical amounts, regardless of movements in the local market and with little news from the company.
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