Bangkok Informer

Thailand last issued dollar bonds in 2006, a small US$ 200m floating-rate private placement that Standard Chartered led.   BANGKOK -Thailand is preparing to do its first fixed rate public dollar bond in the offshore market since 1997 and now plans to be a regular issuer, Chularat Suteethorn, the director general for the Public Debt [...]

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  While abroad, non-resident Australians holding an offshore based bond will benefit from gross roll up (investments generally growing virtually free of tax throughout the time the offshore bond is held subject only to a potential withholding tax deducted at source in certain jurisdictions). They will also benefit from the fact that no Australian income [...]

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SET hits 16-year high, baht rises amid fear of huge capital inflows Full News here – NationMultimedia.com –

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