Cosa Nostra?

[Norseman]

Do the family originate from China or Sicily?

PM Thaksin's daughter Thailand's richest stockholder for 2nd year at US$0.5 billion

BANGKOK, Dec 13

Pinthongtha Shinawatra, daughter of Prime Minister Thaksin, has retained the title of Thailand's richest stockholder for two consecutive years, with an estimated Bt19 billion (US$475 million) worth of corporate stock in her portfolio.

According to Money and Banking Magazine and lecturers at Chulalongkorn University's Faculty of Commerce and Accounting, Ms. Pinthongtha currently owns 14.6 per cent of the telecommunication giant Shin Corp's stock, worth Bt18 billion, and 28.9 per cent of SC Asset Corp's stock (the property development unit of the family businesses), worth Bt1 billion.

The country's second richest stockholder is Bannapot Damapong, brother of Mr. Thaksin's wife, Khunying Pojaman Shinawatra. Mr. Bannapot owns 13.4 per cent of Shin Corp. stocks, worth Bt16 billion.

Land & House Co president Anant Asavapokhin, who topped the list of the country's 500 richest stockholders in 2002 and 2003, has become the third richest with Bt15 billion in stock in his portfolio.

Panthongthae Shinawatra, only son of the prime minister, ranks fourth on the list with 9.8 per cent of Shin Corp stock, worth Bt12 billion, while Premchai Kannasutra, CEO of ItalianThai Development Corp, ranks fifth with eight billion baht in stocks.

Paethongtharn Shinawatra, remaining daughter of the prime minister, ranks 45th, holding about Bt1billion baht in stock, compared to Khunying Pojaman, Mr. Thaksin's wife, who ranks 397th with only Bt116 million worth of stock.

Yinglak Shinawatra, the prime minister's sister, ranks 62nd with Bt820 million in stock.

The Shinawatra Family has become the country's richest with a combined Bt33 billion in stocks.

The Asavapokhin Family ranks second with Bt17 billion in stocks, the Maleenont Family ranks third with Bt16 billion, the Damapong Family is fourth with Bt16 billion and the Chirathiwat Family ranks fifth with Bt15 billion.

[coloradokid]

It is amazing what a lot of hard work and a little bit of good luck will do. I am positively certain that it has absolutely nothing to do with the K-word.

[Nisakiman]

Yes, it's amazing how these coincidences crop up. Here in Greece, where I live, we have a prime minister called Kostas Karamanlis, whose uncle, coincidentally, was the prime minister some years back. And even more of a coincidence, the leader of the opposition, Georgos Papandreou, is the son of another former prime minister!

Life can be stranger than fiction................

[SHADOW]

Who forgot to pay her tax's on some shares she sold outside the stock exchange recently?