When the Thai baht crisis hit Southeast Asia in 1997 he switched his attention to China.
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He was lucky not to be badly hit when the Thai currency was dramatically devalued during the 1997 Asian financial meltdown.
Juan Ignacio Chela was leading Paradorn Srichaphan 6-3 3-0 in the first round when the Thai withdrew, and the Argentine meets Briton Andy Murray next.
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With Kim Eng in Thailand being the No. 1 broker, I think there is a lot of things that can be done with it, as and when the Thai authorities allow for us to open a branch.
It popped into my head last week in Bangkok when a young Thai musician told me that many of his hipster friends were obsessing over stock prices and swapping tips.
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When the order of pad Thai landed at our table, McDang stuck his fork in, twirled some rice noodles around and then took a bite.
Not good on sunburns, and the same goes for the Thai Massage: When the therapist complimented my flexibility while digging her knees into my upper musculature, my "thank you" came through tears and gritted teeth.
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Michael Flancman, who divides his time between his native Toronto and Chiang Mai, Thailand, first learned that elephant waste could be turned into paper in 2002, when he heard about a Thai villager who was doing just that.
How, Chaturon asks, could the central bank governor launch an investigation into the non-performing-loan scandal at Krung Thai Bank last year when he used to be chairman of that state-owned institution.
Meanwhile, Thai Chapchai Nirat rocketed up the leaderboard when he sunk a hole-in-one at the eighth.
Eight Thai soldiers were lounging on the site when we arrived.
He envisioned a luxurious boutique inn recalling the Golden Age of Siam, when travelers came by boat and reveled in princely Thai hospitality.
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The most recent tension was sparked last week, when a Cambodian court sentenced two members of a Thai nationalist movement to up to eight years in prison after finding them guilty of espionage.
Some of those rescued said that when the boat neared Thailand, it was stopped by the Thai Coastguard.
When I asked him to take me to his favourite pad Thai spot, he suggested we meet at Hot Shoppe, conveniently located about 20 meters from his home in the Thonglor neighbourhood.
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.
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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Devotees take approximately 48 days to prepare for the festival, which takes place mid-January to mid-February, when the moon is full in the 10th Tamil month of the Thai calendar.
When the baht initially slipped off its moorings in July, Hana Electronics, a Thai exporter, chose not to hedge its currency exposure.
When soft-shell crab is in season, we've served a whole fried one with Thai influences.
Nirmalya Bhomick, a Thai kickboxing champion and former bodyguard to Nepal's royal family, knows a market opportunity when he sees one.
But it has a small majority and its formation was as messy as Thai politics can be: days of haggling and inter-party defections and a moment of farce when, within minutes of each other, both Mr Chuan and a rival each declared himself to have a parliamentary majority.
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