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Thai Liquor Tycoon in Hotel Expansion Overdrive.

Bangkok Post (Bangkok, Thailand)

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Byline: Boonsong Kositchotethana

Nov. 1--Liquor tycoon Charoen Sirivadhanabhakdi is taking further steps to consolidate his property empire through the Imperial Hotels Group by investing billions of baht in two hotel projects in Thailand while planning to enlarge a five-star hotel in Cambodia whose construction is nearly completed.

The additional investment comes on the heels of the recently concluded partnership deal with Singapore's state-owned CapitaLand to revive two key projects in Bangkok -- a downtown serviced-apartment block and a suburban commercial and residential complex -- shelved since the 1997-98 crisis.

The hotel investment ...

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