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Market capital of IPOs this year soars to Bt500bn (nationthailand.com)

Market capital of IPOs this year soars to Bt500bn

NationalDec 09. 2020

By The Nation

Initial public offerings (IPO)s so far this year are worth almost Bt500 billion in market capital – double the Bt250 billion targeted by the Stock Exchange of Thailand, SET president Pakorn Peetathawatchai said on Tuesday.

This year’s Bt492 billion in IPO market capital was in line with the average yearly increase of Bt250 billion, he said.

“This is good news for the Thai stock market.”

This year’s Bt492 billion extra market capitalisation resulted from IPOs by 22 companies plus one Infrastructure Fund (IFF) and one Real Estate Investment Trust (REIT). Eleven companies plus the IFF and REIT floated on the SET, while the remaining 11 floated on the Market for Alternative Investment (mai), according to SET senior executive vice president Manpong Senanarong.

According to SET information, the IPOs total issue size was Bt124 billion and their offering size was Bt153 billion.

Meanwhile five more companies are waiting to launch IPOs this month, three on the SET and two on the mai, said Manpong.

“We believe that there are no uncertainties that would pressure the stock market in the remainder of this year,” he added.

Nine of the newly listed stocks have dropped in price since their IPOs, with I&I Group Plc (IIG) and Silicon Craft Technology Plc (SICT) seeing the steepest falls of about 200 per cent.

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Sudarat’s new party will cut ties to Thaksin: Watana (nationthailand.com)

Sudarat’s new party will cut ties to Thaksin: Watana

NationalDec 09. 2020

By The Nation

The new party being set up by former Pheu Thai politicians will not be overshadowed by any powerful figure, insists ex-Pheu Thai member Watana Muangsook.

Watana was speaking to Inside Thailand following speculation that the party being launched by Pheu Thai’s former chief strategist Sudarat Keyuraphan would ally with Pheu Thai under its patriarch, former PM Thaksin Shinawatra.

Sudarat’s links with Thaksin go back to 1998, when she co-founded his Thai Rak Thai Party. However, those links appeared to break late last month when she abruptly quit Pheu Thai along with several of her allies. The move came after Thaksin’s ex-wife Khunying Potjaman Na Pombejra reportedly intervened to engineer changes at the top of Pheu Thai.

Watana said the resignation of Sudarat and her allies from the main opposition party was due to ideological differences with other members.

Turning his focus to the country’s current political turmoil, he said the solution was to amend the Constitution to return power to the people.

He said charter change was the biggest issue facing the country but added that it would not be achieved in a day but over a long period of cooperation between people.

Watana was also asked whether the new party would try to get rid of PM Gen Prayut Chan-o-cha so it could join his ruling Phalang Pracharat Party in power.

He answered that the new party would not ally with any other parties.

He also said he had notified the Election Commission of the plan to launch the new party.

The launch date was not revealed but he said the focus of the country should be charter amendment and the setting up of a Constitution Drafting Assembly.

Watana also insisted that the new party would not be influenced by Thaksin or Potjaman.

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Rubber price to bounce higher next year: experts (nationthailand.com)

Rubber price to bounce higher next year: experts

NationalDec 08. 2020

By The Nation

The rubber price is expected to rise for the next few months as production declines and demand increases, experts said.

Vorathep Wongsasuthikul, chairman of Thai Rubber Latex Group Plc, said Thailand’s rubber harvest will decrease under the impact of heavy rainfall from the El Nino phenomenon until April next year.

“Meanwhile, the demand for rubber is increasing as the tyre industry hoards the product to cope with shortages, so we expect the rubber price to rise until the second quarter of next year,” he said.

He added that Malaysian research shows the Thai and Vietnamese rubber sectors would benefit from high consumption of natural latex gloves, which degrade more easily than synthetic rubber gloves.

Korakod Kittipol, marketing manager of Thai Hua Rubber Plc, said the price of rubber had increased due to heavy rain in the South and leaf fall disease, resulting in low productivity.

“We expect the price of rubber to move between Bt60 and Bt80 per kilo due to the abovementioned situation,” he said.

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Covid-19 strain in Myanmar spreads 20% faster, says Mahidol University dean (nationthailand.com)

Covid-19 strain in Myanmar spreads 20% faster, says Mahidol University dean

NationalDec 08. 2020

 Prof Dr Prasit Watanapa, dean of Mahidol University’s Faculty of Medicine, said on Tuesday that Covid-19 has spread a lot faster in Myanmar because there are no effective measures in place to track people and the virus strain is different.

He said the virus has spread 200-times faster across the country because the movement of less than 50 per cent of people travelling from affected areas has been tracked.

He also said the strain of the virus present in Myanmar is very different from the D614 strain from Wuhan, the Chinese city where the virus was first detected. The G614 strain, which is infecting people in the West, has also been spreading in Myanmar since the first case was detected in the country on March 23. This strain can multiply 20 per cent faster than the original one.

“Thais returning from Myanmar and refusing to enter mandatory controls or concealing their information is dangerous not just to themselves, but also their families, society and medical personnel. This shows that one weak point can have a huge impact on the country and a negative effect on society. Hence, I’m calling for people to cooperate and be on guard. We can boost our immunity against the virus by wearing a mask, keeping our hands clean and maintaining distance,” he said.

Prasit said cooler weather, a rise in the number of infections in neighbouring countries like Myanmar and Malaysia as well as public gatherings are causes of concern and hospitals should prepare for an increase in infections.

Thailand has signed an agreement with AstraZeneca for the purchase of 26 million doses as well as support for local production. The AstraZeneca vaccine, which has so far proved to be 90 per cent effective, needs to be tested three times by the Thai Food and Drug Administration which will take about one month. Then it will take another four months to produce the vaccines, which means the first vaccination can be expected after May next year.

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Grab pulls driver who flashed gun, threatened netizens (nationthailand.com)

Grab pulls driver who flashed gun, threatened netizens

NationalDec 08. 2020

By THE NATION

Grab Thailand has dismissed one of its drivers for posting threatening social media messages along with photos of himself wearing a Grab jacket and wielding a gun.

The company on Tuesday said it had “suspended the account of a driver-partner with immediate effect” for violating Grab’s security and safety protocols.

Grab said its own investigation found the driver had used profanity, verbal sexual harassment, malicious communication, and had threatened people via social media.

The company said it is now considering whether to take legal action against the culprit.

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Making the most of a bad situation (nationthailand.com)

Making the most of a bad situation

NationalDec 08. 2020Photos by Charoon Thongnual 

By The Nation

Even though floods in Nakhon Si Thammarat province are receding, many residents are still not able to return home and are having to find shelter alongside roads.

The South has seen the worst flooding in 30 years last week, and though many areas have been cleared, several downstream zones are still under water.

Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha visited several downstream areas in Nakhon Si Thammarat on Monday.

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One swerve and all fall down (nationthailand.com)

One swerve and all fall down

NationalDec 08. 2020

By THE NATION

In a bizarre accident early on Tuesday, some 34 parked motorcycles were knocked down like dominoes by a Honda SUV, which swerved after rear-ending a pick-up truck.Police arrived to find the Honda flipped over and passenger, 44-year-old Sotsee Seesetuan, slightly injured.The drivers of both the pick-up and SUV were taken in police for interrogation, while the SUV driver was checked for inebriation.

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Anutin dismisses rumour of epidemic, backs plan to sue illegal border crossers (nationthailand.com)

Anutin dismisses rumour of epidemic, backs plan to sue illegal border crossers

NationalDec 08. 2020Public Health Minister Anutin Charnvirakul 

By The Nation

Public Health Minister Anutin Charnvirakul told the press on Tuesday that the Covid-19 situation in Thailand has not reached the epidemic level yet.

He said most infections have been brought in from outside and the recent illegal border crossers have only infected those close to them.

Last week 10 women sneaked across the border from Tachilek in Myanmar and travelled to other provinces, including Bangkok, before testing positive. Anutin said the women who entered illegally to avoid the 14-day mandatory quarantine were selfish, immoral and lacked a sense of responsibility.

He added that the authorities will take legal action against these women, adding that people returning to the country should follow laws and public health regulations.

He also said that he fully supports Chiang Rai tourism operators who are planning to sue the illegal border crossers for Bt20 million in compensation for loss of business.

Anutin said nobody should be allowed to get away with such selfish behaviour.

“They should all be sued. The government also has to take legal action against them, otherwise they will not learn,” he said.

He also said no province has been put under lockdown so far. As for concern that some 500 Thais may have sneaked across from Laos, he said he believes provincial officials and border security have the situation under control. However, he said, ensuring complete safety requires cooperation from returnees, who should take responsibility and enter the country through correct channels.

He also advised people to monitor announcements from the Department of Disease Control.

“The Public Health Ministry holds a press conference on the situation every day. Don’t listen to rumours [of an epidemic]. The ministry and other government agencies are trying to fix the situation,” Anutin said.

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Police ambush driver with truck full of meth (nationthailand.com)

Police ambush driver with truck full of meth

NationalDec 08. 2020

By The Nation

A driver smuggling a large shipment of drugs across the Mekong River from Laos on Sunday was shocked to find a posse of police waiting for them on the Thai side.

On Tuesday, police in the Northeast border province of Mukdahan announced they had seized 384 kilogrammes of crystal meth worth Bt150 million after being tipped off.

Responding to a report that a smuggling operation was underway, officers began searching a secluded spot by the river on Sunday.

They then received another report that a 10-wheeler truck had been spotted by the riverside. Officers raced to the spot and opened the truck to discover the huge haul of drugs piled inside.

Police arrested the driver and are now hunting for two more suspects.

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Gruesome end to teenage shenanigans in Phitsanulok (nationthailand.com)

Gruesome end to teenage shenanigans in Phitsanulok

NationalDec 08. 2020

By The Nation

Teenage monkey business came to a horrifying end in Phitsanulok province on Monday night when four schoolgirls lost control of their motorbike and fell off a bridge.

The girls, all aged 16, were found in a pool of blood at about 8pm. Two had apparently died immediately, while the other two sustained severe injuries.

Police suspect they were speeding when they lost control and fell off the bridge, hitting the ground below at high impact.