Chapters: Nation Multimedia Group, Gmm Grammy, Rs Public Company Limited, Bec-Tero, National Broadcasting Services of Thailand, Mcot, Bongkoch Comics. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 33. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Nation Multimedia Group Public Company Limited (Thai: ) is a media company based in Thailand. It has both on-line and off-line media like newspaper, television channels, books, magazines and web contents. Its address is 44 Moo 10 Bang Na-Trat KM 4.5, Bang Na, Bangkok 10260 Thailand. Its symbol at the Bangkok Stock Market is "NMG" (NMG.BK). The Nation Multimedia Group's beginnings go back to 1971, when a new English language newspaper, The Voice of the Nation, was founded in Bangkok by some Thai journalists. The paper's name was eventually shortened to The Nation and the multimedia company grew up around it. Its shares were first listed on the Stock Exchange of Thailand in 1988 and it was registered as a public company in 1993. As of July 2005, the six business units are: Each of these businesses has its own board of directors. Nation Edutainment (NED) is a business in the Nation Group publishing Japanese and Thai manga. The Nation Multimedia Group publishes the following: Nation Multimedia became the target of mass protests after its mass-circulation Thai-language daily, Kom Chad Luek printed an article on March 24, 2006 that misquoted anti-government protest leader Sondhi Limthongkul, with the misquote suggesting Sondhi wanted Thai King Bhumibol Adulyadej to abdicate, which was viewed as an insult to the king, or lese majesty, which is a crime in Thailand. The report was about a speech Sondhi made at a protest rally on March 23, in which he implied the king was responsible for the Supreme Administrative Court quashing the two royal decrees on the public listing ...More: http: //booksllc.net/?id=4578395