BANGKOK, June 18 (Xinhua) — Thailand\’s Industry Ministry over the next 1-2 months will revise up a targeted value of new investment requests for 2010, Industry Minister Chaiwut Bannawat said Friday, the Thai News Agency (TNA) reported.
The ministry\’s current target of receiving the new investment requests from companies is valued at 500 billion baht (15.43 billion U.S. dollars) for 2010.
According to the Board of Investment (BOI), foreign investors are still interested in investing in Thailand, the minister said.
The Mitsubishi Company (Thailand) Limited and Mini Bear Company are expected to expand their investments in Thailand as the combined investments\’ value from the two firms is about 15.0 billion baht (462.96 million U.S. dollars), he cited.
