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Thu, 03/31/2011 - 14:51
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Thai industrialists raise funds to help Japan
BANGKOK, March 31 (TNA) - Thai industrialists have raised a 2.8-million-baht fund for the Thai Red Cross Society to deliver aid to recovering Japan.
The ceremony was chaired by Industry Minister Chaiwuti Bannawat and witnessed by Chanin Khaojan, director of the Unit for Industrial Linkage Development of the Board of Investment (BOI), Seiji Kojima, Japanese ambassador to Thailand, and Takao Hayashi, director of SME promotion department of the Bangkok office of the Japan External Trade Organization (JETRO).
Donations, which had been coming in since March 30, 2011, were presented to Chanprapha Wichitcholachai, public relations chief of the Thai Red Cross Society.
Chanin said that the natural disaster in Japan had halted local power plants and that authorities at Japanese production facilities in Thailand will study the overall impacts and decide in which areas Thai factories would be able to export to Japan.
Meanwhile, Nantawan Sakuntanak, director-general of the Export Promotion Department, said local and overseas operators and exporters, including 200 from Japan, insisted on still taking part in the Bangkok International Gift Fair and Bangkok International Houseware Fair 2011 (BIG + BIH), which will be held at the Bangkok International Trade and Exhibition Center (BITEC) on April 19-24.
This year's event will welcome participants from South Korea, Switzerland, India, Malaysia and Japan and will have an “Asian Inspired” theme to showcase the kind of creativity that represents the East. (TNA)
The ceremony was chaired by Industry Minister Chaiwuti Bannawat and witnessed by Chanin Khaojan, director of the Unit for Industrial Linkage Development of the Board of Investment (BOI), Seiji Kojima, Japanese ambassador to Thailand, and Takao Hayashi, director of SME promotion department of the Bangkok office of the Japan External Trade Organization (JETRO).
Donations, which had been coming in since March 30, 2011, were presented to Chanprapha Wichitcholachai, public relations chief of the Thai Red Cross Society.
Chanin said that the natural disaster in Japan had halted local power plants and that authorities at Japanese production facilities in Thailand will study the overall impacts and decide in which areas Thai factories would be able to export to Japan.
Meanwhile, Nantawan Sakuntanak, director-general of the Export Promotion Department, said local and overseas operators and exporters, including 200 from Japan, insisted on still taking part in the Bangkok International Gift Fair and Bangkok International Houseware Fair 2011 (BIG + BIH), which will be held at the Bangkok International Trade and Exhibition Center (BITEC) on April 19-24.
This year's event will welcome participants from South Korea, Switzerland, India, Malaysia and Japan and will have an “Asian Inspired” theme to showcase the kind of creativity that represents the East. (TNA)
