PRESS RELEASE
29 January 2009
For immediate release

The Nation and ThaiVisa.com sign Internet forum deal

BANGKOK: -- The Nation Multimedia Group has signed a joint-venture agreement with ThaiVisa.com to provide an English-language community forum on the Internet.

"The partnership will help to forge better communications on Thailand-related issues to meet the needs of both Thais and the expat community on subjects of mutual interest as well as their individual interests. Our joint efforts represent a growing force, and we are pleased to work with ThaiVisa.com as the leading community/social networking English-language website on Thailand," says The Nation COO Pana Janviroj.

            "We are very excited about this venture," says Barry Main, marketing director of ThaiVisa.com. This extends the user base for us, and we see synergy effects and marketing possibilities working with a large news organisation. With this growth in the user base we hope to increase the variety of content and reach a wider section of the foreign and Thai community," says Barry Main.

            The forum is located at http://www.thaivisa.com/forum.

          The Nation Multimedia Group, one of Thailand's leading multimedia companies, was founded in 1971 to publish the country's first Thai-owned and run English newspaper. Since then The Nation Multimedia Group has expanded operations to broadcast media, including The Nation Channel and The Nation Radio, and have launched several other media publications. The company is listed on the Stock Exchange of Thailand (SET).

            ThaiVisa.com owns Asia's largest expatriate-oriented community website, with over 70,000 registered members. The ThaiVisa Expat Forum launched in 2002, and today boasts more than 20,000 unique visitors per day and serves more than four million pages per month. In addition to its very active forum, ThaiVisa also operates travel and hotel booking services, insurance services and online classified ads.  
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Nation Multimedia Group Public Co., Ltd
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Khun Pana Janviroj, COO
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www.Thaivisa.com
Mr. Barry Main, Marketing Director
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