The Vongthip Letter Oct 08

“Thailand is lucky, lucky, lucky” - not thanks to the PAD, you’re about to learn. Like her or don’t like her for her political affiliations, Khun Vongthip’s strength is again the economy.

Why’s Thailand lucky? No surprise: Because the kingdom went through the meltdown Wall Street’s facing now some eleven years ago. And Thailand learned her lessons.

What could have meant a political lesson as well though remained a strictly financial thing. Surprise, Khun Vongthip still cheers for the political “Thai style” festival over at Govt House …

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October 2, 2008 | Filed Under Business & Economics, Politics, Property & Investment, The Vongthip Letters | Leave a Comment

The Vongthip Letter Sep 08

This month’s Vongthip Letter was more eagerly awaited than ever by me. We know Khun Vongthip’s political affiliations. How will she analyze the crisis and the new “demasked” PAD.

“Thai voters no longer have the choice”, concludes banker and economist Khun Vongthip. “They would have to go down the highly disturbing, very rough and even bloody reform path.”

“Thaksinatra no more,” “Thailand’s image,” “Rebels with a cause” and “The awakening giant” are some of the subjects she dwells upon. Khun Vongthip remains undisturbed. The country cannot do without the PAD’s fight.

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September 5, 2008 | Filed Under Business & Economics, Politics, Property & Investment, The Vongthip Letters | Leave a Comment

The Vongthip Letter Aug 08

What a busy July 08 we had in Thailand with the buildup of a judicial tsunami, a telling guilty verdict and the unhappy 59th birthday of Thaksin Shinawatra.

It’s not all yet well and worse may still come - at least some defining, long overdue steps are taken. But is the end near?!

As every month Khun Vongthip Chumpani gives you the background and assessment of what has and will happen. Making sense of it all.

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August 6, 2008 | Filed Under Business & Economics, Politics, Property & Investment, The Vongthip Letters | Leave a Comment

The Vongthip Letter Jul 08

Trying to make sense of it all? Lost in the labyrinths of Thai society and politics? Here’s Khun Vongthip Chumpani with her monthly newsletter.

Is it really “Preah Vihear for Koh Kong”? Should you pity Thaksin’s jailed three lawyers? And is there “a revolution in the making?”

Khun Vongthip’s opiniated facts make for some great read again this month.

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July 7, 2008 | Filed Under Business & Economics, Politics, Property & Investment, The Vongthip Letters | Leave a Comment

The Vongthip Letter Jun 08

Within a matter of days we had witnessed Thailand’s sudden revival of the old political mess. A reanimated PAD was itself amazed by the spontaneous support. As Khun Vongthip Chumpani of Bangkok Bank writes in this month’s newsletter, “millions of baht were paid anonymously into PAD’s account to keep them going.”

The support though somewhat waned. For manifold reasons. Some call the PAD a simple traffic nuisance. Others a movement out of date. Others again have more urgent problems in paying their daily bills. Thaksin-who?

Making again sense of it all is Vongthip Chumpani in her retrospective as well as prospective newsletter for June ‘08. Learn about the waning influence of Thaksin, Kleptocracy vs. Democracy and the turbulences ahead. Not that you’ll be caught as off-guard by the sudden turn of political events as most observers and investors just were.

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June 6, 2008 | Filed Under Business & Economics, Politics, Property & Investment, The Vongthip Letters | 3 Comments

The Vongthip Letter May 08

It’s time again for some stimuli of those brain cells.

Here’s Khun Vongthip Chumpani of Bangkok Bank with her monthly mandatory doses of Thai insights.

Read about “saint” Thaksin, the rice crisis and understand Thailand’s current behind-the-scenes.

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May 9, 2008 | Filed Under Business & Economics, Politics, Property & Investment, The Vongthip Letters | Leave a Comment

The Vongthip Letter Apr 08

And you thought everything is going smoothly in the kingdom? With the new rulers in tempered control and the great puppet master quietly in the background?

You couldn’t have been more wrong. Khun Vongthip Chumpani of Bangkok Bank explains you why.

Welcome to another issue of Khun Vongthip’s monthly eye-openers. “Not so rosy a picture,” Khun Vongthip says, those “shameful behaviors of the newly powerful.”

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April 4, 2008 | Filed Under Business & Economics, Politics, Property & Investment, The Vongthip Letters | Leave a Comment

The Vongthip Letter Mar 08

Here we go again. Khun Vongthip’s monthly take, this time on the great purge in the kingdom, Thaksin’s shiny new Red Passport, “our other dear ministers” and the glimmer of hope called Rosana.

Khun Vongthip Chumpani of Bangkok Bank making sense of it all. Nevertheless, she predicts, this is it, the “year of investment.” Better fasten your seat belt. Maybe the year of the roller coaster is ahead.

Because “a snap election could be called to give the TRT/PPP a landslide victory that would result in a one-party rule under Thaksin’s complete control once again.” Here we go:

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March 6, 2008 | Filed Under Business & Economics, Politics, Property & Investment, The Vongthip Letters | Leave a Comment