Vestas secures second EPC contract in Vietnam’s Tra Vinh province The turbine manufacturer will supply and install 12 wind turbines of 4.2MW capacity each for a new 48MW wind project Turbine manufacturer Vestas has secured its second Engineering Procurement Construction (EPC) contract in Vietnam. Vestas will supply and install 12 turbines of 4.2MW capacity each […]
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Cambodia’s Power plant in Kandal province delayed by Covid-19 travel bans The first phase of a $380 million heavy fuel oil power plant in Kandal province’s Lvea Em district has been further delayed due to travel restrictions imposed to curve Covid-19, a Ministry of Mines and Energy senior official told The Post. Its General Department […]
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Cambodia’s new Siem Reap airport 30% complete despite pandemic Construction on the new $880 million Siem Reap-Angkor International Airport (AIA) is nearly 30 per cent on schedule and on track to be finished in March 2023, the developer said. Sin Chansereyvutha, a spokesman for the State Secretariat for Civil Aviation (SSCA) told The Post on […]
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Construction of Korea-Myanmar Industrial Complex to begin in 2020 Construction of the Korea-Myanmar Industrial Complex (KMIC) in Yangon is expected to commence before the end of the year despite the COVID-19 pandemic, Kim Gun-Woo, general manager of Korea Land and Housing Corporation representative office in Myanmar, told The Myanmar Times. “According to our plan, we […]
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Siemens Marubeni Consortium handed over South Bangkok Power Plant Replacement Project Phase 1 (SBRP1) to EGAT for commercial operations Thailand’s most efficient combined cycle power plant (CCPP) to date, the South Bangkok Power Plant Replacement Project Phase 1 (SBRP1), was recently handed over to the Electricity Generating Authority of Thailand (EGAT) for commercial operations. The […]
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Thailand’s plan to makeover Asia’s deadliest roads is made of rubber Thailand, the world’s biggest producer of rubber, aims to turn 1 million metric tons of it into 12,282 km of barriers and guide posts, absorbing about a quarter of the annual harvest. Bangkok: The home to Asia’s deadliest roads may have found a way […]
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Thailand’s ‘Sor Por Kor’ land – degraded forest tracts that the government gives to poor farmers – continually courts controversy Lay of the land ‘murky’ – Poor farmers still lose out to the rich and politically connected Sor Por Kor land — the degraded forest tracts that the government gives to poor farmers — has […]
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Bombardier’s first automated people mover (APM) for Bangkok’s new Gold Line arrives in Thailand The INNOVIA APM 300 system will be the first driverless mass transit line in the capital city Bangkok’s Gold, Pink and Yellow lines will all operate with INNOVIA technologies, highlighting Bombardier’s progress in the strategic urban mobility segment Rail technology leader […]
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Korat motorway linking Bangkok to open by end of 2020 A new motorway linking Bangkok with this northeastern province will be open for motorists by the end of this year, a Highways Department official said on Thursday. Pholkrit Groundnok, the deputy director of the Nakhon Ratchasima Highways Office 2, said a test run of the […]
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Low-key opening for 4-billion-baht Siam Premium outlet mall located on the Bangkok-Chon Buri Motorway No.7 near Suvarnabhumi airport Siam Premium Outlets Bangkok, billed as Thailand’s first premium outlet centre, opened Friday (19.06.2020) without fanfare. The 4-billion-baht outlet mall located on the Bangkok-Chon Buri Motorway No.7, which connects Bangkok to tourist destinations in eastern Thailand, saw […]
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