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Based on 10 verified sources covering Thailand:

BANGKOK -- Thailand's largest materials group, SCG, will reduce planned capital expenditures by up to 25 billion baht ($794 million) over the next few years as it weathers competition from Chinese products. [1]

TOKYO -- Just a couple of hours by train from Tokyo, the Isawa hot spring resort was a huge draw for tired salarymen and others in need of a relaxing soak during Japan's bubble economy of the 1980s and early 1990s. [2]

TOKYO -- The Tokyo Commodity Exchange agreed Sunday to work with a Beijing-based association of futures companies to bring Chinese capital into commodities trading despite that country's foreign investment restrictions. [3]

TAK, Thailand – A Chinese actor’s recent rescue from a criminal compound has exposed the operations of at least three major Chinese grey capital groups operating along the Myanmar border opposite Thailand’s Mae Sot district, running enterprises rangi... [4]

NONTHABURI, Thailand – The Anti-Money Laundering Office (AMLO) has temporarily seized a luxury housing project funded by Chinese capital, locat [5]

TOKYO -- Industrial robot maker Fanuc's U.S. business is thriving even as investment in China slows under the trade war, the company's chief said on Nov. 7. [6]

NEW YORK -- Investment firm IDG Capital was removed from a Pentagon list of companies with ties to China's military, the U.S. Defense Department said Tuesday. [7]

SHANGHAI -- As China bolsters efforts to slow massive capital flight that topped $300 billion last year, Japanese companies operating in the country face disruptions, with even routine transactions blocked. [8]

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[1] TH asia.nikkei.com · 2025-12-16 · 75% match

Thailand's SCG eyes 10% cut to capital spending as Chinese exports hurt profits

BANGKOK -- Thailand's largest materials group, SCG, will reduce planned capital expenditures by up to 25 billion baht ($794 million) over the next few years as it weathers competition from Chinese products.

[2] TH asia.nikkei.com · 2025-04-13 · 75% match

Chinese customers and capital fire up Japan's hot spring resorts

TOKYO -- Just a couple of hours by train from Tokyo, the Isawa hot spring resort was a huge draw for tired salarymen and others in need of a relaxing soak during Japan's bubble economy of the 1980s and early 1990s.

[3] TH asia.nikkei.com · 2016-12-06 · 75% match

Tocom deal draws Chinese capital for commodities

TOKYO -- The Tokyo Commodity Exchange agreed Sunday to work with a Beijing-based association of futures companies to bring Chinese capital into commodities trading despite that country's foreign investment restrictions.

[4] TH www.pattayamail.com · 2025-01-09 · 75% match

Chinese grey capital groups expand operations across Moei River from Thailand’s Tak province

TAK, Thailand – A Chinese actor’s recent rescue from a criminal compound has exposed the operations of at least three major Chinese grey capital groups operating along the Myanmar border opposite Thailand’s Mae Sot district, running enterprises rangi

[5] TH www.pattayamail.com · 2024-10-08 · 75% match

Luxury housing project funded by Chinese capital on banks of Chao Phraya River seized

NONTHABURI, Thailand – The Anti-Money Laundering Office (AMLO) has temporarily seized a luxury housing project funded by Chinese capital, locat

[6] TH asia.nikkei.com · 2018-11-07 · 75% match

Fanuc 'in top form' in US as Chinese capital investment slows

TOKYO -- Industrial robot maker Fanuc's U.S. business is thriving even as investment in China slows under the trade war, the company's chief said on Nov. 7.

[7] TH asia.nikkei.com · 2024-12-18 · 75% match

Pentagon drops private equity firm IDG Capital from Chinese military list

NEW YORK -- Investment firm IDG Capital was removed from a Pentagon list of companies with ties to China's military, the U.S. Defense Department said Tuesday.

[8] TH asia.nikkei.com · 2017-03-18 · 75% match

Chinese capital controls hit Japanese corporations

SHANGHAI -- As China bolsters efforts to slow massive capital flight that topped $300 billion last year, Japanese companies operating in the country face disruptions, with even routine transactions blocked.

[9] TH asia.nikkei.com · 2017-01-31 · 75% match

Chinese capital curbs to crimp Thai real estate inflows

Demand for homes in Thailand is growing among middle-income Chinese buyers drawn in by the low cost of real estate relative to mainland China.

[10] TH asia.nikkei.com · 2020-02-13 · 75% match

Asian tourism capitals sweat over Chinese travel drought

CoronavirusAsian tourism capitals sweat over Chinese travel drought Xenophobia risks keeping world's top vacation spenders away for months A shopkeeper wearing mask at souvenir shop around Wat Phra Kaeo, Thailand.

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