How Thailand’s wealthiest are making serious money
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How Thailand’s wealthiest are making serious money
Nation Multimedia – Mar 24, 2008
In 2006 he got an extraordinary exclusive contract for handling duty free and other retail at Suvarnabhumi Airport. He has bought 384 rai from the Chan Issara family near the airport where he is making a polo field golf course and upscale housing development. He has also developed a 31-rai plot near Victory Monument with an office building duty-free mall and hotel. In 1997 Forbes reckoned Thailand had 10 families over the billion-dollar mark. Now there are only three. Some of that decline is illusory. The Shinawatra family is now attributed as having only US$300 million (Bt9.
Posh hotel’s plan for a ‘poverty tour’ before hi-so feast…
Nation Multimedia – Mar 24, 2008
These three refused to take part in a publicity stunt for a handful of a wealthy people on a quirky quest that was supposed to help bring attention to Thailand's poor. The three chefs had originally agreed to prepare a lavish feast for well-heeled diners at the luxury hotel lebua at State Tower which was to be preceded by a half-day tour of a destitute village in Thailand's North. Soliveres was to cook a risotto with Brittany lobster and a Roquefort ice cream for dessert. Lorain was set to prepare his signature dish "Black truffle and cabbage 'Michel Lorain'". Each of the Michelin-starred chefs was to receive US$8000 (Bt249 924) for the evening's work. The three chefs decided to bow out because they had good taste… They are doing the right thing for the right reasons not the right thing for the wrong reasons. Most of us can see through men like Thaksin and the rich and powerful in Thai society but when we begin to take their leftovers and ask for seconds we justify their actions and their bad taste. There is an old saying in Thailand: "If you're rich you are incapable of doing anything disgusting. " It's good to know that these three French chefs have proven that old adage wrong – it just would have been nicer if the Thai people were the ones who did it.
Phuket Gazette – online English newspaper for Phuket Thailand with…
Phuket Gazette – Mar 24, 2008
The most highly-sought after plates for which opening bids were 50000 baht were numbers with the same digit four times in succession. As most bidders were keen believers in Chinese geomancy the top bid as expected was for plate กท 9999. The winner was local hotel magnate Wanrak Likhidvong with a high bid of 740000 baht. The second highest bid of 510000 baht was placed by businessman Atthapan Poojaroen for กท 8888. All 301 plates on offer were snatched up by luck- and vanity-seeking bidders. The lowest bid during the auction which ended at 3 pm on Sunday fetched 19000 baht. There were 308 registered bidders in this year’s event.
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