PTT's bid is the biggest ever by a Thai firm for a foreign one, and underscores the rush for oil-and-gas assets off the east African coast.
Thai stocks have been on a roll this year, along with the Thai currency which hit a five-year high on the day that I met the musician at a dinner party.
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"Contrary to two rulings by a Thai criminal court which concluded that Viktor Bout's guilt was not proven, he has still - by a decision of the Thai government - been extradited to the United States, " Mr Lavrov told Rossiya TV on Tuesday.
The 26-year-old Thai, a former world number nine, has seen his ranking slide to 51st but was in fine form on Friday.
Chirayudh, who has been critical of Tarrin's handling of the economy, faults Sirin for overzealousness in turning Krung Thai into a successful commercial bank.
The opposition is against Thaksin and may well return to the streets to contest his rights as a member of the Thai parliament and a citizen.
Heinecke, who abandoned his American passport and became a Thai citizen in 1991, is a rare example of a former American who struck it rich in foreign lands.
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David Thai, a coffee-shop entrepreneur (see article), was born in Saigon to a family that had fled the north after the war to expel the French, left on a boat in 1975 and ended, via the Philippines and Vanuatu, in America.
Under Supreme Court precedent, a state doesn't have the power to block the enforcement of federal law inside its borders, said Joseph Thai, a constitutional law professor at the University of Oklahoma who served as law clerk to Supreme Court Justices John Paul Stevens and Byron White.
Heineken came a step closer to winning its bid to take control of Asia Pacific Breweries, after a Thai beer magnate dropped his opposition to a deal.
In the past 18 months one person in Israel, a Thai farm worker, has been killed by a rocket fired from Gaza.
But last week's visit to Yangon -- the first by a Thai premier in 15 years -- had a more immediate purpose.
Visitors can also check out a Thai gold shop from bygone days, take a seat in a dusty, blue-vinyl dentist's chair and admire a replica of an elementary school classroom.
Forest's near neighbor Leicester City, another club to have lost top-flight status in recent years, is now owned by a Thai group -- but Chadwick says there is a big difference in their earning potential.
Macdonald points out that all work on the island has been under the supervision of a Thai forestry worker and an environmentalist, not to mention a botanist brought from Britain to oversee replanting of the native species.
Getting Bangkok under my belt would have given me the opportunity to take a shore excursion to Ayutthaya, the ancient Thai capital and a UNESCO World Heritage Site, when we were in Bangkok, and the chance to knock Hanoi (and the Colonial-era Metropole Hotel) off my bucket list.
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Mae, whose full name is Vanessa-Mae Vanakorn Nicholson was born in Singapore to a Chinese mother and a Thai father but was brought up in the UK when her mother remarried a Briton.
Nirmalya Bhomick, a Thai kickboxing champion and former bodyguard to Nepal's royal family, knows a market opportunity when he sees one.
To meet it, Banthoon revamped and revitalized a core group of about 200 managers, imparting to them his vision of Thai Farmers as a world-class player.
Koreatown, located on the parallel Wilshire Boulevard a few miles south of Thai town, has a great new spa to add to the plethora of Korean-style options.
At Phoenix Pulp and Paper, for example, the country's largest supplier of pulp for paper, a five-year battle between the controlling shareholder, a foreign company, and acquisitive Thai politicians is reaching a climax.
For a time, Thai Rak Thai even ran its campaign from a building belonging to one of Mr Thaksin's companies.
On the road outside, a platoon of Thai soldiers patrolled carefully, keeping a lookout for ambushes, prodding gingerly in the thick, tropical vegetation for possible bombs.
It houses a Thai bookstore, grocery and the unimaginatively named Thailand Plaza Restaurant, which serves traditional cuisine.
So sayeth the leader of the Dhammakaya sect, a Thai Buddhist version of the prosperity gospel hustle.
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After 53 years on the throne, the Thai king occupies a uniquely quiet space as a monarch.
Ms. Potiwat owns Saimok Kab Dokmai ("mist and flowers" in Thai), a 50-seat restaurant specializing in floral cuisine.
Several are competing to supply as many as 860, 000 cut-price tablets to Thai schoolchildren under a government-to-government program.
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