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Expert Tells Southeast Asian Investment Seminar Mixed Messages Hurt Thailand.

Bangkok Post (Bangkok, Thailand)

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Byline: Natalie Suwanprakorn

Mar. 2--Limited information flows and inconsistent governance from the Thaksin administration, compounded by an increasingly volatile Southeast Asia, are making investors nervous, a regional investment seminar was told yesterday.

The constricted information flow in Thailand was starting to bear too much resemblance to the muffled media in Malaysia, said Michael Ascot, managing partner of the Amrop Hever Group, a multinational executive-search firm.

Coupled with heightened violence in the Philippines and Indonesia, such developments alarmed investors who tended to view Southeast Asia as a single investment package, ...

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