AirAsia Bhd aircraft stand next to boarding gates at Kuala Lumpur International Airport 2 in Sepang, Malaysia in this 2014 file photo. Airline executives complain the $1 billion budget-airline terminal is sinking, with cracks appearing in the taxiway and water forming pools that planes must drive through. (Bloomberg photo) KUALA LUMPUR — A new budget-airline […]
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Transport Minister Prajin Juntong predicts the Chinese-Lao-Thai railway link will be completed within 2020. (Photo by Pattarapong Chatpattarasill) Transport Minister Prajin Juntong expects the double-track railway linking southern China, Laos and central Thailand will be completed within five years. The minister discussed the transnational railway project with Lao authorities in Bangkok on Monday. After the […]
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An image from ‘Dark Side Of The City’. Photos by Roengrit and Roengchai Kongmuang The work schedule was gruelling: he had three days to take portraits of 200 villagers. For photographer Roengrit Kongmuang, the task was compounded by the simple act of breathing. “My nostrils became drier and I felt uncomfortable breathing in and out. […]
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Protesters end rally but vow to monitor joint panel set u to review power project RIME MINISTER Prayut Chan-o-cha’s order to put the Krabi coal-fired power plant project on hold brought an end to the protest outside Government House last night, a rally organiser said. Anti-coal activist Prasitchai Noonual said the protesters were happy with […]
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Jarken Co., Ltd., a leading Thai design and architecture firm, has been awarded a 2015 Top 10 Architects Award at the annual BCI Media Group (Asia) Awards ceremony, which recognizes the top architectural firms and developers that had the greatest impact on commercial and residential real estate in Southeast Asia over the past 12 months. […]
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Listed and non-listed property firms plan to launch new condominium projects in Bangkok and its suburbs worth more than Bt100 billion in the second half of this year after condo projects in those areas recorded total sales worth Bt101.4 billion in the first half of the year, up 72 per cent from the same period […]
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Thailand has announced that applications for solar farm licenses will be open to the public sector early 2016. A FIT of $0.16/kWh has been slated for 25 years. Director-General of the Energy Policy and Planning Office Twarath Sutabutr has stated that his office expects to grant a total of 800 MW of licenses Thailand-wide. Applicants […]
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Storms cause temporary flooding on Ratchadaphisek Road, Bangkok, but the rapid subsidence of the capital and rising sea levels may submerge it for good, the National Reform Council has warned. (Photo by Thanarak Khunton) Without urgent action, Bangkok could be under water within 15 years because of excessive pumping from the aquifer, the weight of […]
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Foreign tourists enjoy Rin beach on the popular Phangan island. (Bangkok Post file photo) SURAT THANI — The Royal Irrigation Department is considering building a subsurface dam, the first of its kind in Thailand, on Koh Phangan to address freshwater shortages on the popular tourist island. Yongyuth Kerdsinchai, director of the Surat Thani irrigation office, […]
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This local suspension bridge still under construction across the Nan River collapsed during heavy rain in Phichit on Tuesday night. (Photo by Sitthipoj Kebui) An unfinished suspension bridge across the Nan River in Phichit’s Muang district collapsed on Tuesday night during a storm. The collapse of the bridge, 139 metres long and 2. 90 metres […]
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