Author: Peter Carlisle

Prasarana, operator of Klang Valley’s LRT and Monorail lines, has announced that it will be providing technical support to Thai MRT operators for the development of the latter’s new Bangkok MRT Purple Line. Six drivers and five controllers from subsidiary Rapid Rail Sdn Bhd made their journeys across the border yesterday to be stationed with […]

A THAI company has initiated a plan to collect non-biodegradable plastic bags and turn them into something useful, such as bags to carry fruit. The idea is part of a corporate social responsibility by Schneider Electric Thailand. The firm hopes to not only make plastic bags reusable, but to also reduce the amount of plastic […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]