Thai Airways sneaks into Top Ten Skytrax World’s Best Airlines Awards 2019 19 June 2019 Qatar Airways is the world’s best airline in the 2019 Skytrax World Airline Awards. Last year’s winner Singapore Airlines, has been relegated to second place. Asian airlines have taken six of the top ten spots with Thai Airways, despite their […]
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Best Western® Hotels & Resorts Signs Full Management Contract with Habitat Group for Asia’s First Newly-Built BW Premier Collection® Hotel Bangkok – Best Western Hotels & Resorts celebrates the signing of a full management contract for Bluphere, BW Premier Collection by Best Western, which will become the first newly-built BW Premier Collection hotel in Asia. […]
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B Grimm Power’s Vietnam solar projects come on line 17 June 2019 B Grimm Power Plc (BGRIM), one of Thailand’s largest private power producers, has confirmed that it successfully commenced commercial production from its two large solar power schemes in Vietnam with a combined total installed capacity of 677 megawatt earlier this month. All of […]
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Total & Siemens propose scaled-back Myanmar 1,230 megawatt Kanbauk LNG-to-power project 17 June 2019 YANGON — The European consortium behind a 1,230-megawatt power project in Tanintharyi Region has proposed scaling back its plans amid stalled talks with the government over financial terms. However, a senior government official told Frontier the revised proposal is unlikely to […]
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Minor Hotels introduces Avani and Oaks brands to Yangon in Myanmar 17 June 2019 Minor Hotels, a hotel owner, operator and investor, currently with a portfolio of more than 520 hotels in 53 countries, will debut its Avani and Oaks brands in Yangon, Myanmar, with the development of two hotels as part of a management […]
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CENTRAL Pattana plans more malls in region – at least two new shopping centres in Malaysia and Vietnam 18 June 2019 CENTRAL Pattana Plc, or CPN, has plans to open at least two new shopping centres in Malaysia and Vietnam “as soon as possible” after the successful opening here last week of its first Malaysian […]
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Countries best at English as a second language These charts reveal where English is most widely spoken as a second language. English is the world’s most widely spoken language but is unusual in the fact that the vast majority of speakers are not ‘native’. Of the approximately 1.5 billion people who speak English, less than […]
Continue ReadingMercurius to buy 50% stake in Thai property developer, jointly develop Phuket resort 17 June 2019 MERCURIUS Capital Investment is looking to acquire half of a Thai private property developer, Grand Bay Hotel, for more than 335 million baht (S$14.69 million), as well as to jointly develop the Sheraton Phuket Grand Bay Resort, a resort […]
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Thailand’s three major airports High-speed rail project mired in land issues Expropriation of buildings and homes along route behind schedule 16 June 2019 The high-speed train project to link up three major airports is still mired in land expropriation and eviction problems concerning 20% of the land required for construction despite it being expected to […]
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70 million baht to be spent on adviser/designer team for Pattaya’s state of the art tram project Pattaya Watchdog reported on Thursday that Pattaya City Hall is planning on spending 70 million baht in advisory and design work on the proposed tram project that is set to transform the popular resort. This comes after reports […]
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