aging one

kick the corrupt bastards out.

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OhhhYouKnow

Yeah! Step 1: Put the word "King" in the name of your company so everyone will assume everything you do is ethically sound and people will assume that anything good for your company is good for the king.

zehner

i like the last sentence..



i wonder what he means....

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TIT

zehner

wouldn't happen in any other country would it?

the airport board tell you to get out. you ignore them. you get the courts in. they ignore them too. then they decide to settle it out of "national interest"

what a joke...

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happychappy

So nobody noticed King Power were setting up in the new Airport then, must have done it overnight.....Sounds like somebody is looking for a bigger backhander.

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Sissy

what? no cheap duty free make-up shopping at King Power? what ashame.

aging one

Have you ever seen the prices of BKK's duty free, one of the bigger airport ripoffs around.

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Sissy

^ actually bought some stuff from the airport duty free. so where is the best place to shop for make-up and perfumes stuff like in bkk, phuket and krabi then?

Eric C

Far be it from me to drive Sissy away from the larger forum, get me right on WB's shit list it will but, you'll probably get more replies to this question in the Powder Room.

Now back to duty free shops, at all the airports I have been in it seems that the duty free shops are a rip-off. The only decent duty free experience I've had was at little shops on the US / Canada border crossings and even there it wasn't like I saved a ton.

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zehner

King Power is a huge rip-off...they've got their claws dug so deeply into the airports here that if they were to leave the whole thing would collapse for loss of kickbacks for all the corrupt airport officials.

The new airport is a capitalist's wet dream...row upon row of over-priced products all under the same sign. no competition and no escape for all the unknowing tourists.

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update...

Bangkok's Independent Newspaper


AOT to take legal action against defiant King Power

Airports of Thailand (AOT) has resolved to take legal action against King Power Interna-tional Group, the operator of duty-free shops, for failing to remove its outlets from Suvarnabhumi Airport, board member Chirmsak Pinthong said yesterday.


Published on January 10, 2008




The AOT executive board also decided to sell AOT's stake in Thai Airports Ground Ser-vices (TAGS), which handles ground services at the airport.

It will also examine a contract that employs TAGS to manage the airport's duty-free zone, to see whether it is paying too much.

AOT pays TAGS Bt21 million a year to manage the zone, based on a 16.5-per-cent management charge.

The board views the payment as unfair and is ordering AOT to sell its 18-per-cent stake in TAGS to create transparency after an examination of the contract is carried out.

The board's decision on King Power came after its instruction to the company to remove its shops in March last year appears to have been ignored.

King Power's failure to comply prompted AOT's board on Tuesday to engage lawyers to take action against it.

The board also yesterday ordered King Power Suvarnabhumi, a subsidiary of King power, to remove its tenants at the airport. The subsidiary manages commercial space at the airport.

The firm, which sublets space, was told that the concessions granted in March 2006 by the former AOT board had violated the Public-Private Joint Venture Act.

This omission was deemed as sufficient reason to withdraw the concessions.

The board said some key information had not been disclosed when the concession was granted by the former board.

The current board has

asked the National Counter Corruption Commission to investigate whether there are any officials or people involved in the failure to disclose this information, as required under the Public-Private Joint Venture Act.

The commission has been asked to take disciplinary action and file civil cases against people who violated the act.

The concession was granted during the Thai Rak Thai-led government two years ago.

Yesterday's legal move by the AOT came as a surprise. It was expected that the board would leave the matter to the new government to tackle.

Some industry sources had expected the issue would be settled out-of-court as the People Power Party, consisting of ex-Thai Rak Thai Party members, is expected to play a key role in the new government.

Chirmsak, however, said it had decided to take legal action fearing the statute of limitations would render the case void when it ends this March, one year after the board's order to oust the company from the airport was issued.

Earlier on, King Power filed a counter-lawsuit against the AOT board, seeking damages worth Bt68 billion for withdrawing its concessions.
The AOT board took the latest move after recommendations were made by a fact-finding committee led by former senator Prathin Santiprapob.


Watcharapong Thongrung
The Nation

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grasshopper

decent knock-offs in Hat Yai if anyone's interested

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