Hotel Lotte Myanmar to open on 1 September 2017 South Korea’s Hotel Lotte Co. will open its eighth offshore hotel in Myanmar`s commercial city of Yangon on September 1, the company announced Tuesday. Hotel Lotte Yangon completed after four years of construction is located by scenic Inya Lake, a popular outing destination in the city. […]
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Fast trains to nowhere in Southeast Asia Despite various schemes underway to upgrade decrepit railways, few are designed with a vision towards improving regional connectivity China’s Foreign Minister Wang Yi urged Thailand on a July 24 visit to strengthen “cooperation in the construction of the China-Thai railway,” calling the kingdom “a very important partner” in […]
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Legal framework, roadmap needed for Vietnam’s wind power Vietnam needs to develop a legal framework and feasible roadmap to turn its wind energy potential into reality, which will help to meet the country’s rapidly rising electricity demand, experts have said. Tobias Cossen, head of GIZ’s project on supporting the up-scaling of wind power said that […]
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Lighthouse Club Yangon branch networking event – 30 August 2017 Time Out Sport Bars, Novotel Max Hotel, Pyay Road, 7 – 9 pm Please note that we have a change of venue for this month’s Lighthouse Club Yangon branch networking event. This month it will be held at Time Out Sport Bars at Novotel Max […]
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VIETNAM’S TALE OF TWO METROS, ONE BUILT BY THE JAPANESE AND THE OTHER BY THE CHINESE Delays and cost overruns are to be expected as the nation tries to recreate the transportion systems of its two largest cities, but accidents and mistakes on the Chinese-led project are feeding into some longstanding prejudices For the first […]
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Continue ReadingKorea’s Lotte to build Vietnam’s answer to Canary Wharf Korean conglomerate Lotte Group has been chosen to develop a 74,500-sq-m “smart city” in the southeast of Ho Chi Minh City in southern Vietnam. The development will be on the 657ha Thu Thiem New Urban Area, located in a loop of the Saigon River, which the […]
Continue ReadingPurple Line connection to Blue Line to begin operation August 11 The Ministry of Transport has stated that the Blue and Purple rail line connection at Tao Pun Station will begin operation this August 11. Minister of Transport Arkom Termpittayapaisit has made known the Purple Line railway from Bang Sue to Tao Pun will be […]
Continue ReadingBangkok’s taxis 7th cheapest in the world It doesn’t come as any surprise that Bangkok has placed in the top ten cheapest cities in the world to take a taxi, according to the 2017 Taxi Price Index, conducted by Carspring, a British online used car dealership. Out of the 80 most visited in the world, […]
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Firm uses wood for clean energy business Lop Buri farmers grow both food and biofuel trees Solar farms, wind farms and biomass farms have been scaling up around the world as governments and the private sector join forces, adopting renewable energy strategies to combat climate change caused by fossil-fuel emissions. Wattanapong Thongsoi, managing director of […]
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