Vietnam’s metro system is a tale of two late trains The new Hanoi subway line debuted in November 2021 despite bloated budgets and delays continuing to slow the nation’s mass transit development By the southeastasiaglobe.com Vietnam’s first metro rolled into operation on 6 November 2021 after a decade of delays and ballooning costs. A 23-minute […]
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Marubeni signed a Corporate Power Purchase Agreement with Ajinomoto Vietnam for a Rooftop Solar PV System Marubeni Corporation (hereinafter, “Marubeni”) signed a corporate power purchase agreement (hereinafter “Corporate PPA”) with Ajinomoto Vietnam Co., Ltd. (hereinafter, “AVN”) through Marubeni Green Power Vietnam Co., Ltd (hereinafter, “MAGPOV”), a wholly owned subsidiary of Marubeni in which MAGPOV will […]
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Excellent Videos of the Maiden voyage of the new SeaHorse Ferry from Sattahip to Songkhla and Songkhla to Sattahip If you are interested in the new SeaHorse Ferry, which crosses the Gulf of Thailand from Pattaya/Sattahip (Chuk Samet Pier in Sattahip district in Chon Buri province) to Songkhla in the south of Thailand, then take […]
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Italian-Thai Development appoints Premchai’s youngest son Thoranis Karnasuta as acting president as Premchai enters prison Italian-Thai Development PCL issued a statement today (Wednesday) offering assurance that the imprisonment of its president, Premchai Karnasuta, for poaching and other offences will not affect the operations or management of Thailand’s leading construction company. In the statement, the company […]
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Thailand’s Supreme Court sentences Premchai Karnasuta president of Italian-Thai Development to 3 years 2 months in prison for hunting SEE ALSO: Premchai, Boss Of Thailand’s Largest Contractor Imprisoned For 16 Months The Supreme Court on Wednesday sentenced construction tycoon Premchai Karnasuta to a prison term of three years and two months for hunting in Thungyai […]
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Maiden voyage completed on new $6bn China-Laos railway The first train to travel the 422km China-Laos railway pulled into the Lao capital Vientiane Saturday night hauling 50 containers of dicalcium phosphate, used for animal feed, from China. It was sent back to make the roughly 7.5-hour journey to the China-Laos border south of Kunming, in […]
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Chana industrial estate protesters dispersed, 36 people arrested SEE ALSO: Protesters Celebrate As Thai Government Halts Chana Industrial Estate Project In Songkhla Crowd control police on Monday night arrested 36 members of the Chana Rakthin Network who rallied in front of Government House in protest against the government’s planned industrial estate development in Songkhla’s Chana […]
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Thailand maintains land and building tax for another 2 years The cabinet on Tuesday approved the maintaining of the existing tax rates for land and building for a further two years, a government spokesperson said. Taxes for agriculture, residential and vacant land between 0.01% to 0.7% were approved by the cabinet and will be reviewed […]
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Thailand’s opposition party Pheu Thai take swipe at Thai Government for lagging behind Laos in development of High Speed Rail Comparing Thailand unfavorable to its impoverished neighbor Laos always gets a rise out of the Thai population. This is exactly what the opposition Pheu Thai party did after the opening of the China – Laos […]
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TotalEnergies to install 1.7-MWp rooftop solar array in Vietnam French energy major TotalEnergies SE (EPA:TTE) will build a 1.7-MWp solar array on a rooftop of a footwear factory owned by China’s Huali Industrial Group Co Ltd (SHE:300979) in Vietnam. TotalEnergies said today it was hired to build and operate the photovoltaic (PV) system at Huali’s […]
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