China key to Vietnam’s solar success, rapid growth since 2018 A rapid rise in Vietnam’s solar power has been boosted by Chinese finance and technology, but more support is still going to fossil fuels Vietnam has been a Southeast Asia solar success story. It went from having barely any generation in 2018 to a quarter […]
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Asset World Corporation And Nobu Hospitality Announce Plans To Expand Nobu Hotels And Restaurants In Thailand Asset World Corp Public Company Limited (AWC), Thailand’s leading integrated lifestyle real estate group and Nobu Hospitality, the global lifestyle brand founded by Nobu Matsuhisa, Robert De Niro and Meir Teper, are delighted to announce a new partnership established […]
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Vietnam’s Long Thanh International Airport’s first phase slated to become operational in Q4 2025 Minister of Transport Nguyen Van The has requested extra efforts to put the first phase of the Long Thanh International Airport project in the southern province of Dong Nai into operation in the fourth quarter of 2025. He urged investors of […]
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Vietnam’s EVN progresses Quang Trach thermal power plant State-owned Vietnam Electricity (EVN) has signed a VND30.23 trillion ($1.31 billion) engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) contract for the 1.2 gigawatts (GW) Quang Trach 1 thermal power plant in Quang Binh province, Vietnam. The total cost of the project is VND41.14tn ($1.8bn) with EVN bringing 30% of […]
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EDP Renewables enters Vietnam with a 28 MWac Solar PV project in Khanh Hoa Province The company has reached an agreement with Trina Solar to acquire the Solar PV project for a total consideration of $36m. The entry in Vietnam is within the context of EDPR Business plan 2021-25 and represents a first step towards […]
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Construction of Cambodia’s border checkpoint at Stung Bot-Ban Nong Ian Friendship Bridge with Thailand accelerated SEE ALSO: Highway Connecting Cambodia’s Banteay Meanchey Province To Thailand’s Aranyaprathet District Is 70% Complete The Ministry of Public Works is accelerating the construction of the border checkpoint administrative buildings at Stung Bot-Ban Nong Ian Friendship Bridge to facilitate travel […]
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Thailand’s B.Grimm Power eager to increase capacity at its power plants to 7,200 megawatts by 2025 B.Grimm Power Plc (BGRIM) plans to ramp up installed capacity at its power plants to 7,200 megawatts by 2025. “It is BGRIM’s goal to enlarge the proportion of clean power in its energy portfolio as part of the effort […]
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Electricity Generating Authority of Thailand (Egat) eyes solar output hike Firm targets 5GW via nine floating farms State-run Electricity Generating Authority of Thailand (Egat) plans to increase power generation capacity of its floating solar farms to 5 gigawatts to enhance electricity generation at its hydroelectric power plants nationwide, according to Egat governor Boonyanit Wongrukmit. He […]
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Thailand behind Vietnam in transition from fossil fuels to clean energy Thailand is lagging Vietnam in the race to transition from fossil fuels to clean energy in the post-Covid-19 world, where climate change is taking center stage as the next looming global crisis, and countries and companies race to become carbon-neutral. And Thailand’s highly profitable […]
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State Railway of Thailand ‘clears out’ all illegal occupants along new high-speed train route from Bangkok’s Suvarnabhumi airport to Rayong’s U-tapao airport The State Railway of Thailand (SRT) says it has cleared out all people who were illegally occupying land along the planned high-speed train route from Suvarnabhumi airport to U-tapao airport, and that it […]
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