Honda has suspended operations for a day at two of their factories in Thailand, due to the bloody turmoil created by the Red Shirt protests. One of them is a car manufacturing plant in Ayutthaya while the other is a motorcycle plant in a Bangkok suburb. The company also closed its main office in the capital as the military cracked down on the Reds.
“We’ll decide whether to operate our business on a day-by-day basis, watching the changing situation there,” a Honda spokeswoman told AFP. The Ayutthaya plant churns out around 240,000 vehicles a year, mostly Accord and Civic sedans meant for the domestic market.
After last week’s wave of arson attacks by angry Red Shirts, which consumed buildings such as the Central World shopping landmark and the iconic Siam Theatre, the City of Angels is being cleaned up now, and normal life is starting to resume, along with the traffic jams.
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Things are calming down there now…….
this is what some of irresponsible ppl want to do at our peaceful country..protest..protest..
They cant see the consequences.
Peace protest should be ok. not until setting up fire.
its for thai ” domestic” market right?… not affected in m’sia…… no comment on the REDS!!! but dont slow delivery in msia… if not, the othe car manufacturers will cut in the sales…. but hard to say… maybe other brands might be affected….soon… hopefully not la. but if so, P1 n P2 will be very happy to take EXTRA orders….
thailand = crap
do you been there. It still better than malaysia
you are not serious right! in time like this, i would rather be in Malaysia.
absolutely!
In what way is Thailand better than Malaysia? Comment without justification is a stupid comment.
He likes the ladyboys there.
Mak nyah sini… tak de class la…
malaysia = crab
You must be one of the typical katak bawah tempurung M’sian whose perception of Thailand = prostitutes.
What a loser.
Only Bangkok and a few areas are affected by the protests. And not everything needs to go through Bangkok. It’s like saying when there’s a riot in KL, Butterworth is in trouble.
came back mnufacturer in malaysia… why choose thailand…
We already have Honda factory in Melaka.
quote .. why choose Thailand quote
Why dont you ask the father of Thai Automotive Industry, Mahathir Mohd.
This protest is in deed a problem … but wat to do.. when u elect a party to win and control.. the other party (yellow) start to protest..
The red shirt are the true ppl of thailand.. The current prime minister is a *h*t head.. Mr.A**..
Honda will resume soon :D.. thailand also make BMW 7 series :D.. tat is what i heard from my friend who bought one there..
RED !!
The politics in Thailand is complex, with the military being the third force behind the scene.
Thaksin isnt a goody two shoes, his business empire has indeed profited from his position of being PM. He is like Mahathir in that he still made sure the common man get some of the benefits/kick backs, while he took most of it.
Then again the current PM isnt as powerless as you think he is. There are very powerful men backing him behind the scene.
Both sides (yellow & red) has their points of view & neither is completely right nor wrong.
Are you implying that the previous prime minister (Thaksin) is godly good? Maybe, in term of managing the country like doing business. But I don’t think killing people in Southern Thailand (quoting Masjid Kerisek’s incident and Takbai incident before the rise of insurgent and current disharmony there) would count as a good deed.
I assume that you would counter me by saying Abhisit killed Red Shirts recently, but at least he tried to negotiate first. And who can manage a country that is in deep s**t when he took over?
Redshirts are mostly people from Nothern Thailand, who got goodies under Thaksin’s rule. With goodies cut off, they protest. True people of Thailand?
Pekan makes S-class yo. IIANM, the only one is Asia to local assemble the S500 V8 engine
Toyota factory got close ah ?
Good good.. come here la!
this is the time for malaysian ministers open up their brains and think..they can suggest a deal with honda to assemble their cars here..we know that honda is a very strong brand internationally….honda cars which comes from thailand is also have a lower quality..i have seen this in many of current honda cars..think..
What are you talking about? We do have a Honda plant in Alor Gajah that produces City, Civic, Accord and CR-V; while Jazz and Stream are imported from Thailand.
lol, some people just don’t know.
Anyway, Melaka-made Honda have quality problems too.
Honda plant in Alor Gajah is for local M’sia market ONLY.
Honda plant in Thailand is for ASEAN countries and some part of APAC(Australia,NZ…..)
See the difference now ?
Almost all of the vital parts for Honda Malaysia came from Thailand. They just assemble the parts at Melaka. If production disrupted in Thailand, it may affect the assembly line in Malaysia unless they can source it from elsewhere.
Indeed , true , when the production personnel are reds and the top management wears yellow .Different folks different strokes. Welcome to Thailand .
Hope they will transfer the part making to malaysia. so malaysia economy will start to grow. unlike now always in sh1ty situation.
malaysia can never take a piece of the pie from thailand.
ask ppl frm MIDA if you wan to knw why. very sinister answer is tat Malaysia only welcomes green technology. others like automotive, you better go thailand. we can’t give you kickbacks.
I heard a different story. Some foreign company wanted to use us as a supply, r&d & production base because we have substantial agricultural waste/byproducts which they have the capability to turn into something of use. The response they got from our gov… let’s just say the co shook their heads in disappointment and went to another country.
Almost all anecdotal stories I hear is exactly the same.
Foreign companies all bright eye bushy tail until they meet the civil servants & political hanger on’s. Then the true colours are shown. Everyone from the clerk to the DG demands some form of under table or will tell you that they happen to know a company which the foreign company MUST joint venture with. The local directors just so happen to be related to the civil servant or political hanger on’s.
Word has now spread amongst the foreign companies to avoid M’sia. Why do you think our FDI has been rapidly reducing year after year. While Thailand, Indonesia, Vietnam & even Singapore has recovered from the 1997 financial crisis, we have yet to even break even, let alone recover.
GREED is the answer!
Msians la… dah tau ni sume, lagi vote the same monkeys into office.
What to do? Until we have the balls to vote that gay into office, we can only sit and watch as others around us grow.