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Keeping foreigners out serves whose interests?

Keeping foreigners out serves whose interests?

By Greg Lowe on December 1, 2009

Preventing foreigners from owning land and property in Thailand does many things: it protects powerful Thai landlords and agricultural monopolies, forces overseas investors to consider setting up shop in other regional markets, drives Thai capital from the country and provides a pool of nationalist bile for tub-thumping politicians to draw on and whip up a [...]

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Developers return to Koh Samui

Developers return to Koh Samui

By John on April 8, 2008

Builders to resume work on projects as government dispels uncertainty about FBA.

The Koh Samui property market is poised to stage a recovery this year, following the government’s decision to relax the Foreign Business Act (FBA), says property expert Pisarn Tangkasombat.

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