Thailand signed two railway deals worth $933.2 million (33.66 billion baht) on Thursday, the transport minister said, in the latest bid by the military government to increase infrastructure investment to boost Southeast Asia’s second-largest economy. The deals are among some 20 infrastructure projects worth nearly 1.8 trillion baht ($50.2 billion) and covering rail, roads, air […]
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New land appraisal prices nationwide for 2016-19 are up 27.8% from the levels set in 2012-15, while property on Silom Road remains the most expensive in the country, according to the Treasury Department. Average land prices in Bangkok are up 15.8% since the last review four years ago, while those in the provinces increased by […]
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Cars in Bangkok moved at an average speed of 15 kilometres per hour during the morning rush hour in 2015, a survey by a Transport Ministry agency has found. The average evening rush-hour speed was 22kph, which was 0.4kph slower than last year while morning traffic moved 0.8kph slower, said the report by the Office […]
Continue ReadingThe number of building projects in Yangon fell from 600 to 400 per month between November and December, according to the Building Department under the Yangon City Development Committee. “The rate dropped in these two months. We had to permit only 400 projects last month,” said an official from the department. Many people blame the […]
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“I was a workaholic,” Bob Coleman says. “Then one day I thought of all the places I hadn’t seen and I decided right there and then that something had to change.” At age 55, Bob started his international travels by taking vacations to popular destinations in Southeast Asia, including Penang, Malaysia and the Thai capital, […]
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It is great to see that improvements in solar panel technologies, and drop in commercial prices, have made more and more home owners opt for generating clean solar power. But, energy consumption varies greatly throughout the day (and night) and without some sort of an energy storage system, a lot of energy goes to waste […]
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SAMUT PRAKARN — Airports of Thailand announced yesterday that their green bicycle lane will reopen Saturday after seven months of renovation. After being closed since June 8, Suvarnabhumi bike lane, known as “Green Lane” will be officially reopened under the new name “Sky Lane”. The surface has been repainted in blue, and with a 500 […]
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Govt sending mixed signals on renewables, while strongly supporting coal. A company set up a “Solar Charger Station” display at an exhibition last February to show how solar energy could be harnessed to charge mobile phones. Two years ago, all Kordin Chaihae could do after sunset was to sit quietly by a candle in his […]
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The government approved a draft memorandum of understanding (MoU) yesterday to purchase electricity from the Nam Thuen 1 hydropower project in Laos. The draft MoU was endorsed by the National Energy Policy Committee chaired by Prime Minister Gen Prayut Chan-o-cha, which will see Thailand buy 520 megawatts of power in 2022 worth 2.67 baht per […]
Continue ReadingCambodia and Thailand have agreed to push ahead with completion of a railway line from Bangkok to Phnom Penh, with the two countries signing a memorandum of understanding during Prime Minister Hun Sen’s visit to the neighbouring country last week. The long-delayed project is part of the eastern corridor of the Singapore-Kunming Rail Link, a […]
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