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The Supreme Court yesterday sentenced Suree or Ravi Sansirikul to one-year imprisonment and fined him over Bt333,000, and Chompoonuch Pimhataivoot to one-year and six-month imprisonment and fined him Bt500,000 for conspiring with others to manipulate the stock price of Krisdamahanakorn Plc.

The jail terms were not suspended.

On April 22, 1993, the SEC filed a criminal complaint against Suree and Chompoonuch for joining the stock manipulation scheme from January 2-October 7, 1992.

Tapioca conference

To promote trading in tapioca, which Thailand is the world’s largest supplier of, the Foreign Trade Department will organise World Tapioca Conference 2015 under the theme of “Think…Tapioca, Think…Thailand”. Duangporn Rodphaya, director-general of the department, said yesterday that the event will be held from June 23-26 at the Dusit Thani Hotel in Pattaya.

Singapore picks GFK?

GFK, an international market research company, was chosen yesterday by the Media Development Authority of Singapore to provide a total audio-visual audience measurement currency for the city-state.

Bandwidth transfer

CAT Telecom will submit its plan to transfer 5 megahertz of bandwidth from Total Access Communication’s portion of the 1,800MHz spectrum to the regulator for reallocation without imposing any condition on its transfer.

Takorn Tantasith, secretary-general of the National Broadcasting and Telecommunications Commission, said yesterday after a meeting with the state enterprise on the spectrum transfer that he told CAT to submit the proposal by July 7, as the NBTC will hold a public hearing on July 17 on the plan to auction 1800MHz licences and the proposal will be added to the hearing.