Thai markets and banks to close
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Coup leaders in Thailand say the country's stock exchange and banks will be closed on Wednesday.
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A newly-appointed Thai economics chief resigns after protests over his links to the former prime minister.
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This lucrative currency strategy may be coming to an end.
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The Thai stock market suffered its worst fall in 16 years on Tuesday as foreign investors pulled the plug in response to drastic measures to rein in the strengthening baht currency.
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Asian stock markets closed mixed Monday, with the key indexes dipping both in Hong Kong and Singapore. Japanese financial markets were closed for a national holiday.
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Markets closed Monday but big economic news dominates the end of the week.
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Taiwan&#39;s financial markets and government offices will be closed today as Typhoon Nock-ten approaches the island with torrential rains and winds as high as 155 kilometers (96 miles) an hour.
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Thailand is planning to break the foreign patents of 14 HIV/AIDS, cancer and heart drugs, a move that may prompt companies to withhold new drugs from the Thai market, pharmaceutical firms said on Wednesday.
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Flags across Europe will be lowered to half-staff, stock exchanges will stop trading, and workers, shoppers and businesses across the continent will join a silent tribute Wednesday to victims of the south Asian tsunami.
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Hundreds of schools in Thailand's restive south will shut their doors in response to increasingly vicious attacks by suspected Muslim insurgents against teachers and schools, a regional education representative said.
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BANGKOK : Thailand said on Tuesday that at least nine farms had been contaminated by genetically-modified crops after a seed selling scandal shut down a major part of the country&#39;s GM testing programme.
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REGIONAL stock markets and currencies fell and the price of gold shot up yesterday as traders in Southeast Asia attempted to assess the cost of the disastrous tsunamis that swept the region.
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Hundreds of schools in southern Thailand closed yesterday as teachers refused to work after two of their colleagues were killed by suspected Islamist militants.
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Asia will be able to weather the rising prices of oil but economic growth will slow down, with Thailand and the Philippines being the worst affected in a group of 10 countries, a report by the Asian Development Bank (ADB) said .
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Asian stocks and currencies fell on Monday after tsunami waves triggered by the world's worst earthquake in 40 years killed nearly 15,000 people and wreaked havoc on tourist beaches.
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After two years of political upheaval and post-coup policy bungles, most Thais and foreign investors hope Sunday's general election will signal the end of a period of disappointing economic growth.
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European equity markets were set for a weak opening on Wednesday following a military coup in Thailand which led to overnight losses in Asian markets.