Bangkok Post, Thailand, Company Reports Column.

Aug. 20--Advance Paint Chemical (Thailand) said that all 164m shares offered at 1 bt each had been sold to local and foreign investors from Aug 7-16.

--Book Club Finance said BC-W warrant holders could exercise rights on Aug 30, with notification from Aug 23-29.

--BGES Engineering System reported an audited net loss of 108.4m bt (4.82bt/share) for H1 ended June 30, vs a net loss of 89.1m bt (3.92bt/share) in H1 2001.

--Bangkok Insurance said its board on Aug 16 approved the second interim dividend payment of 2.75 bt/share, to be made on Sept 13, register closed on Aug 30.

--Datamat said that on Aug 16 it acquired 306,000 shares from …