Thailand’s Cabinet approves B290bn upgrade for Rayong’s U-Tapao airport The Cabinet on Tuesday approved a bid by a consortium led by BTS Group Holdings Plc for an airport development project worth 290 billion baht. The project will add a third passenger terminal at the U-Tapao International Airport near Pattaya, which in normal times is a […]
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Vietnam turns down Chinese Hanoi-metro rail contractor demand for advance payment Vietnam has refused to pay the Chinese company building its first metro route the $50 million it wants in advance to test run trains. Deputy Minister of Transport Nguyen Ngoc Dong told reporters on Tuesday that Vietnam has been making payments on schedule to […]
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BBS Joint Venture set to sign contract after winning bid for Rayong’s U-Tapao and airport city By THE NATION The Cabinet will soon sign a contract with BBS Joint Venture, which won the bid for the construction of U-Tapao Airport and the Eastern Airport City, though the Navy will decide who builds the airport’s runways. […]
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Thailand’s Culture Ministry proposes holidays from July 4th to 9th for earlier postponed Songkran celebrations Thailand’s Ministry of Culture will propose, to the Centre for COVID-19 Situation Administration (CCSA), the declaration of special public holidays, from July 4th to 9th, for belated Songkran celebrations, which were postponed from mid-April due to the coronavirus pandemic. Culture […]
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Egat puts together delay plan for commercial operation dates (COD) of small power producer (SPP) plants State-run Electricity Generating Authority of Thailand (Egat) plans to discuss the possibility of delaying the commercial operation dates (COD) of small power producer (SPP) plants. The SPPs currently under development by private firms in Thailand have a total capacity […]
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Japanese International Cooperation Agency (JICA) to commence studies for deep-sea port at Myanmar’s Dawei SEZ The Japanese International Cooperation Agency (JICA) will commence preliminary studies for the construction of a deep-sea port at Dawei Special Economic Zone (SEZ) this year, officials of the Dawei SEZ Committee said. “JICA first proposed the study in December 2019 […]
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Cambodia’s local property market best described as ‘flat’ Cambodia’s local property sector has been described as “flat” while condominiums and boreys are tagged to be the hardest hit during the COVID-19 pandemic because the listings will eventually need to be put up for sale under current market prices in the coming months, according to an […]
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Construction of Phù Mỹ solar power plant begins in Vietnam’s Bình Định province Clean Energy Vision Development JSC, a subsidiary of Bamboo Capital Group, yesterday (May 29) broke ground for the Phù Mỹ solar power plant in Bình Định Province’s Phù Mỹ District. To be built in Mỹ An and Mỹ Thắng communes, the 330MW […]
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Bangkok’s Gold line monorail to receive China-made driverless electric train in June 2020 The first rubber-tired, self-driving electric train is scheduled to arrive in Thailand on June 10 for the Gold Line monorail in Bangkok’s Thonburi. The delivery of the train was postponed from April due to the Covid-19 situation. Manit Techa-apichoke, President of the […]
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Bangkok’s Gold Line monorail to start running by October 2020 By THE NATION The Gold Line monorail should be ready for trial runs in September before going into service by the end of October, according to the contractor Krungthep Thanakom (KT). Manit Techapichok, director of KT, said one of the three trains ordered from China […]
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