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SIAM CITY Cement (SCCC) has expressed an interest in making more investments in Sri Lanka’s Puttlam and Galle cement factories, according to the Official Government News Portal of Sri Lanka.
A group of representatives led by the SCCC chief executive officer Siva Mahasandana recently met with Sri Lankan president Maithripala Sirisena in Colombo.
Siva said Sri Lanka was a great destination for investment. “Our company is interested in making more investments in Sri Lanka in the future,” he said.
Sri Lankan President Maithripala Sirisena explained to SCCC the prevailing investment opportunities in the island nation.
Thailand’s ambassador in Sri Lanka also participated in the talks.

WORKPOINT REVENUE SURGES 18%
Workpoint Entertainment posted an 18-per-cent increase in second-quarter revenue to Bt801.7 million, driven mainly by advertising revenue from its digital TV business.
According to the company’s filing to the Stock Exchange of Thailand, second-quarter net profit surged 31.7 per cent to Bt133.89 million compared with the same quarter last year.
In the second quarter, its terrestrial-based digital TV business and content management via Workpoint TV channel 23 took the lead in revenue contribution by boosting income 33 per cent to Bt730.7 million.

GLOW GROUP TO PAY DIVIDEND
Glow Group’s board has declared an interim dividend of Bt1.458 per share after the company earned net profit of Bt5.52 billion on revenue of Bt28.12 billion in the first half of this year.
The dividend payment date is September 9, Brendan Wauters, chief executive officer, said recently.

STAR PETROLEUM POSTS $85M NET
Star Petroleum Refining announced net income of US$85 million (Bt3 billion) in the second quarter.
Chief executive officer Bill Stone said the net income for the first half of this year was $133 million.
 Meanwhile, the company’s board of directors on Thursday approved an interim cash dividend proposed by the management at Bt0.5378 per share. This represents 50 per cent of the net income for the first half of this year.
The extra dividend date is August 23. The dividend payment date is September 9 and the record date is August 25.

60% of Koreans use 2 or more mobile messaging apps
Six in 10 South Koreans use two or more mobile messaging apps, with KakaoTalk standing as the most-used chat service, a survey showed yesterday.
According to the survey of 279 people aged between 19 and 59 conducted by market researcher DMC Media, 64.1 per cent of respondents said they used two or more mobile messaging apps.
The survey found that 35.8 per cent use one messaging app, 38.8 per cent use two, 16.8 per cent use three and 8.6 per cent use more than four.
Asked why they use multiple messaging apps, 59.4 per cent of respondents said they did so to chat with people who used different apps.
KakaoTalk was used by 94.3 per cent of respondents, followed by Nateon with 19 per cent, Facebook Messenger with 15.1 per cent and Line with 12.2 per cent.
As most people use messaging apps to chat, the use of traditional SMS-based texting is on the decline. Only 6.8 per cent of respondents said they used traditional SMS (short message service) texting. – The Korea Herald