91. Recent media reports have told of Zambian diplomats running up large debts, operating businesses from embassies and giving travel perks to friends and relatives. 92. Siam City Credit FinanceSecurities Plc and SCF FinanceSecurities Plc, which operated securities businesses while under suspension, closed their operations. 93. Some have moved beyond past extortion, robbery, kidnapping and murder and operate lucrative businesses such as illegal casinos. 94. The incubator seeks to take ideas and quickly turn them into fully operating businesses. 95. The job cuts will be spread over the next year though a streamlining of staff support functions and organizational changes in some operating businesses, the company said. 96. The law prohibits government officials from operating side businesses. 97. The minister also urged companies to operate their businesses at what he called marginal costs by improving efficiency and charging only a fair margin. 98. The men had been calling the house, where Chalem and Lehmann operated their business, since Monday evening but no one had answered, Kaye said. 99. The new law also ends a ban that has prohibited newspapers and broadcasting companies from operating cable television business. 100. The PTT source said a Middle Eastern oil company, operating downstream businesses in the Asia-Pacific region was interested in the Bangchak shares. |