Thailand gives CP Group October 15 deadline to sign $7 billion high-speed train project 4 October 2019 Thailand has given the agro-industrial conglomerate Charoen Pokphand Group (CP) until 15 October 2019 to sign an investment agreement for the 225 billion baht ($7.36 billion) high-speed train project, a senior official said. Deputy Prime Minister Anutin Charnvirakul […]
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Thailand’s Energy Policy and Planning Office (Eppo) lines up community waste power projects Government to issue licences for 400MW 03 October 2019 The government plans to issue operating licences for community waste power projects for a combined 400 megawatts of new power capacity during 2019-20. Wattanapong Kurovat, director-general of the Energy Policy and Planning Office […]
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Taiwan’s CTCI expands into power sector with Vietnam project CTCI Corp (中鼎工程), Taiwan’s largest engineering and construction services provider, has further expanded its services to the power sector after securing a build-operate-transfer project in Vietnam in cooperation with Japanese and South Korean companies for the Van Phong-1 1,320MW Thermal Power Plant BOT Project . The 1.32 […]
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Nam Phong residents attend 1st public hearing of Nam Phong Power Plant Replacement Project in Khon Kaen Province 02 October 2019 EGAT expresses its appreciation to 1,017 Khon Kaen residents attending the 1st public hearing of the Replacement Project of Nam Phong Power Plant and giving 26 verbal comments, showing public participation in the project […]
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Laos Villagers Resist 50-year Land Concession to Thailand’s Amata Corporation Proposed industrial zones would be developed on the site 01 October 2019 Residents of seven villages in Laos’ Luang Namtha province are resisting a 7,000-hectare land concession granted to a Thai company that would force them to relocate. The villagers are also concerned that the […]
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Property Perfect sees Thailand’s condo market as ‘worst in a decade’ By THE NATION The horizontal property market in Thailand will grow only 3-5 per cent this year and the condominium market is likely to end up 25 per cent in the hole – the most severe situation in 10 years, the executive director of […]
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Thailand’s Gulf Energy and PTT to build $1.33 billion LNG gas terminal and port project on east coast of Thailand Thailand’s Gulf Energy Development Pcl and state-owned PTT Pcl will build a 40.9 billion baht ($1.3 billion) gas terminal and port on the country’s east coast, the Industrial Estate Authority of Thailand (IEAT) said on […]
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Construction of four-lane road from Yangon to Thilawa will complete in December 2019 01 October 2019 With the aim to be secure transportation access to the Thilawa Special Economic Zone from Yangon, the construction of four-lane road linking from Thanlyin Bridge to Thilawa will be completed in December, according to JICA Myanmar Office. The JICA […]
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Thai Bauer carries out specialist foundation engineering works for Bangkok’s MRT Orange line With space tight in urban environments, it is often necessary to have transport links underground, such as in Bangkok, Thailand, with the expansion of the Bangkok Metro (MRT). The existing metro lines, which are marked with the colours blue and purple, cover […]
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US sanctions against Russia stymie $1.3bn Vietnamese power plant 30 September 2019 US sanctions against Russia have prevented Power Machines, the Russian power engineering company building a $1.3bn power plant in southern Vietnam, from importing the equipment it needs to complete construction, Vietnamese media report. Around 20,000 tons of equipment including two General Electric turbines […]
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