Author: Mike Riemer

The Nation The TOT board yesterday went ahead and approved the awarding of a Bt15.99billion contract to the SL consortium of Loxley-Samart to set up a nationwide third-generation wireless broadband network. The approval came ahead of a general election and despite a complaint filed by the Ericsson-AS Associate Engineering (1964) consortium at the Central Administrative […]

Overpriced airport link is ‘a debacle’ SPECIAL REPORT: Passengers unhappy with shoddy service are looking elsewhere The rail link project between central Bangkok and Suvarnabhumi airport has turned out to be a fiasco, with passengers paying up to 150 baht for what they say is a shoddy service. No escalators, no trolleys, no car park […]

‘No checks’ on building safeguards   No state agencies are checking whether new buildings are earthquake resistant, says the Engineering Institute of Thailand.   State authorities have failed to examine if construction firms use earthquake-resistant construction techniques when they erect buildings, as required by an Interior Ministry regulation, it says.   The EIT yesterday expressed its concerns about […]

Thailand’s Nuclear power bid put on back burner   No proposal to construct a nuclear power plant will be made while the Democrat Party is still in power, says Energy Minister Wannarat Channukul.   “The PDP [power development plan] committee will need to look at alternative paths for our energy development,” said Mr Wannarat, adding that other […]

Vice president development for Zinc | InVision Hospitality Jean Marc LaFosse explains to Jamie Knights why flexibility will win over owners and enable him to battle the “big boys”  InVision Hospitality was created in Thailand in 2007, but in 2010 the company decided it wanted to find investment in order to “grow faster”, according to […]

APMC, as one of the world leading and most successful reputed Hotel and Resort Management Company from USA. APMC is ranked 5th largest hotel management companies among top 100 and APMC is ranked 12th largest hotel owners in USA among top 25. APMC is growth oriented and opens to diverse and expands their hotel management […]

A-Power Energy Generation Systems, Ltd. a leading provider of distributed power generation systems in China and a manufacturer of wind turbines, today announced that it has received from Thailand’s Biomass Electricity Co., Ltd. (“Biomass Electricity”) an advance payment of US$ 8.97 million that starts the implementation phase of a project to develop a 150 megawatt […]

The Stop Global Warming Association has called for the Bangkok Metropolitan Administration (BMA) to review the planned construction of a 50km Super Skywalk system, a clutter-free elevated walking space, saying it is way over-priced. The budgeted cost per kilometre was five times the cost of a similar walkway project elsewhere in the city, the association said […]

Thailand has welcomed interest by Japanese investors in partnerships with Thai companies to invest in Burma’s $58-billion Dawei development project. The proposal emerged during meetings this week in Bangkok involving representatives of Nippon Keidanren, which represents leading Japanese companies such as Sumitomo, Mitsubishi, Hitachi, Toray Industries, Mizuho Financial Group, and All Nippon Airways. Japanese companies […]