Bangkok Lighthouse Club Networking Evening – 10 March 2021 – sponsored by RADCON Lighthouse Networkers, Please see the invitation for March’s event and our first networking event this year, we are back!!! As usual our very generous sponsor “Rod from Radcon will sponsor this event In case you are not aware “Rod”is one of our […]
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MRTA seeks input on Bangkok’s MRT Orange Line extension The Mass Rapid Transit Authority of Thailand (MRTA) is gearing up for a new round of bidding for the construction of the 120-billion-baht western extension of the MRT Orange Line. MRTA governor Pakapong Sirikantaramas told the media on Friday that the agency will hold an online […]
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Bangkok’s Mo Chit Complex contract soon; Legal wrangle lasted 25 years The Treasury Department is preparing to sign a contract for the Mo Chit Complex project worth 26 billion baht, after 25 years of delays, says director-general Yuttana Yimgarund. The 63-rai development project is located across Chatuchak Park and Bangkok Terminal is the concession recipient. […]
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TEPCO Power Grid and ATT Consultants Jointly Awarded Contract for Bangkok Underground Substation Construction Project TEPCO Power Grid, Inc. (Head Office: Tokyo; hereinafter, “TEPCO PG”), in consortium with ATT Consultants Company Limited (Head Office: Bangkok; Managing Director: Montree Budsabathon; hereinafter, “ATT”), announced today the signing of a consultancy agreement with the Metropolitan Electricity Authority (Head […]
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Toyo Venture Holdings to raise $11.44m for Vietnam’s Song Hau 2 thermal power plant The plant will house two electricity generation facilities at 1,060 MW each. Investment holding company Toyo Ventures Holdings has revealed plans to raise RM46.22m (US$11.44m) through a private placement to fund its power plant project in Vietnam, according to a bourse […]
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GE Renewable Energy to build the first wind farm in Lâm Đồng Province in Vietnam Contract includes supply and installation of 15 units of its 4MW-137 wind turbines and 10-year full service O&M agreement Cau Dat Wind Farm will be the first wind farm in Lâm Đồng Province in Vietnam GE Renewable Energy announced that […]
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Work permit holders account for largest group of foreigners to enter Thailand in last 10 months More work permit holders than foreign tourists have entered Thailand in the last ten months, new data has revealed. According to data released by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, 81,489 foreigners entered Thailand between 4 April 2020 and 13 […]
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Wyndham Hotels & Resorts arrives in Cambodia with the opening of Sihanoukville’s first international five-star hotel Wyndham Hotels & Resorts, the world’s largest hotel franchising company and leading provider of hotel management services with over 8,900 hotels across nearly 95 countries on six continents, has opened its first hotel in Cambodia, the Howard Johnson Plaza […]
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Siemens’ ‘People mover’ Airval train on track between Bangkok’s Suvarnabhumi airport terminal and Satellite 1 (SAT-1) new terminal A trial run of an Automated People Mover (APM) train at Suvarnabhumi airport will take place in August. Airports of Thailand (AoT) announced the plan yesterday after a successful test of Siemens’s Airval system between the current […]
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New six lane 19km road planned to ease traffic to Bangkok’s Suvarnabhumi airport The Department of Rural Roads (DRR) plans to spend almost 2 billion baht buying land for a new road to reduce traffic congestion around Suvarnabhumi Airport. DRR director-general Pathom Chaloeywares said on Wednesday his department had proposed a series of public hearings […]
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