Thailand property demand is rising – with investors from the United States leading overseas sales – and there is a marked shift to online real estate searches. Leading real estate website DDproperty.com, part of the respected PropertyGuru stable, says it has enjoyed a 29% year-on-year rise in property searches in the nine months to September […]
Continue ReadingB.Grimm Power Limited has awarded Poyry with owner’s engineer services assignment for Amata B.Grimm Power (Rayong) 3, 4 & 5 gas-fired combined cycle power plant projects in Thailand. The assignment includes project management, engineering review, Quality Assurance and Control surveillance and site supervision services. The projects consist of 3 blocks each of 120 MW combined […]
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The Point Yamu by COMO project offers prices starting at 20 million baht per villa, with a focus on foreign buyers. Photo: The Nation PHUKET: Phuket’s residential property market is showing signs of recovery following two years of decline, according to research by real-estate agencies. The latest survey by Plus Property, an agency subsidiary of […]
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My wife and I decided to buy another house in Pattaya. The house we bought in 2010 is rented out via a long term contract and that is good as we do not live in Thailand. A few weeks holiday per year has been the norm (we are too young to retire or even qualify […]
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Sino-Thai Engineering and Construction Plc and Right Tunnelling Co won electronic auctions held yesterday to find contractors to build the State Railway of Thailand’s (SRT) dual-track rail route from Chachoengsao to Saraburi. Kamol Tangkijjaroen, deputy governor of the SRT, said the 106km-long rail project is broken into two contracts and the two companies won each of […]
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Skytron Energy is providing monitoring and supervision for nine solar power plants in Thailand with a total of 55MWp of installed power. The most recently added six plants in Central Thailand have a capacity of 37MWp. One of the new plants is owned by 5 AMATA and is situated near Amphoe Kanchanaburi. The other five plants […]
Continue ReadingSolar Frontier is bringing more of its CIS solar module technology to Southeast Asia. A 50 kilowatt rooftop installation for an Isuzu car dealership in Ratchaburi, Thailand, demonstrates the advantages of Solar Frontier’s CIS solar modules in the region’s climate. Isuzu is a popular car brand in Thailand, especially within the commercial auto segment. Installed […]
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Construction of Xe-Pian Xe-Namnoy Power Company’s (PNPC) US$1.02 billion 410-MW Xe-Pian Xe-Namnoy hydroelectric power project in Lao People’s Democratic Republic (Lao PDR) includes the construction of three dams: Houay Makchan Dam, Xe Pian Dam, and Xe-Namnoy Dam along the Mekong River. Xe-Pian and Xe-Namnoy are rockfill dams will be constructed on the Bolaven plateau, along […]
Continue ReadingAccording to a new report by Timetric’s Construction Intelligence Centre (CIC), Thailand’s construction industry is picking up with a more optimistic future outlook, after suffering a decline during the economic crisis. In real terms, the industry’s output value recorded a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of -0.23% during the review period (2010–2014). This decline was […]
Continue ReadingThe Lao and Chinese governments have signed an agreement to officially launch the construction of a new 418 kilometre railway next month. The agreement to begin the long-delayed project was signed on Friday in Beijing, the Vientiane Times online reported on Wednesday. “The signing of the agreement means the project has now begun,” Deputy Lao […]
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