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Paul Gambles

Recognized as a regional financial expert, Paul is a regular speaker at industry events on market forecasting, financial planning, investing and legal issues for foreigners living or doing business in Asia.  Besides Paul’s blog, Paul previously distributed his ‘almost-daily’ email – “Daily Updates”, where he gave his views on timely issues affecting financial markets, macro economics, micro economics and everything in-between.

Born in South Yorkshire, England, Paul graduated from the University of Warwick with an Honours degree in English and European Studies.  He began his financial career in the early 1980s as a technical inspector at HMIT with Inland Revenue.  Following a successful career change to the Bank of Scotland in 1987, Paul moved to Bangkok in 1994 to help set-up an investment counseling practice, which today is known as MBMG International.

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15 November 2011

Lest We Forget 

The British Embassy held the annual Remembrance Service on Sunday, 13th November, on the embassy compound in Bangkok.  Remembrance Day, held on 11th November and helps us remember the members of the armed forces who have died in the line of duty.  Graham Macdonald, MD of MBMG Group, is President of Royal British Legion Thailand (RBLT) and laid the wreath on behalf of RBLT at the service.

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                                                                  The  Poppy  Appeal   raises  funds  for  The  Royal

                                                                  British Legion, the nation’s leading Armed Forces

                                                                  charity    providing   care    and     support  to   all

                                                                  members  of  the  British  Armed  Forces past and

                                                                  present  and  their  families.

 

To help the Legion, ten very amateur (!) cyclists representing the RBLT set out to cycle from Bangkok last month to complete the 855-kilometer journey to Phuket in a bid to raise 500,000 Baht for the charity.

 

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                                                                                                                                 Photo by Adam O’Keefe.

                          The team of Bangkok Royal British Legion members that cycled 855 km from Bangkok to Phuket in just 8 days for

                                              the Poppy Appeal.

 

The group that covered 855km in just 8 days – was made up of a mix of age groups, with the youngest being Thai rider Nattapongpan ‘Chang’ Ponphol, 17, and the oldest Tony Margetts, 65.

Also in the team were Peter Werby, Tony Bell, Dave Haddon, Shirley Christieson, Les Weaver, Duncan Daiper, Terry Sherwood, and MBMG’s John Murphy pictured below.

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                Photo by Adam O’Keefe.

The ride raised more than the target of B500,000 and will go to the Royal British Legion to help support ex-service men and women.

British Honorary Consul Martin Carpenter, who was present to greet the team on their arrival in Phuket, said: “The Royal British Legion are such a wonderful organisation, especially with the support it provides to ex-servicemen and the activities it gets involved in.”

 

MBMG was very happy to continue our support of the Royal Bristish Legion in Thailand and to get involved with this magnificent effort by offering the services of one of our employees, John Murphy!

 

Manager of Corporate Solutions and Property Finance Manager for Hamptons Advance Solutions, John Murphy, was delighted to report that he raised THB 58,696 in personal sponsorship and said: “I am very grateful to all my personal sponsors, our group sponsors including MBMG for supporting us in the Royal British Legion’s 90th year and hope to be able to work with you again in the future.  I would also like to thank my co-riders and the members of our volunteer support team Angus and An McKernan, John Hocking, Adam O’Keefe and of course our medics Ms. Masha Jigounova and Khun Ae Pornmanee.”

 

The Royal British Legion Thailand also organised a Poppy Day Golf tournament which, thanks to national sponsors RBS, RL360 and MBMG Group, has also helped to raise over half a million Baht.  Many local sponsors also helped to raise money for the cause.

 

For further information and stories of their trip, please visit: http://rblbigpush.wordpress.com/category/the-ride/

For details on how you can get involved and support The Royal British Legion in Thailand, please contact John by emailing johnm@mbmg-international.com