Author: Peter Carlisle

CENTRAL Pattana, Thailand’s largest shopping-mall developer, said yesterday that it would cancel its plan to develop residential and commercial real-estate projects at its Central WestGate shopping complex in order to accommodate space for Ikea, which will set up its second Thai store there. Wallaya Chirathivat, Central Pattana’s senior executive vice president for business development and […]

BANGKOK: — Pathum Thani residents seek help from military junta to stop thrash burning power plant projectPathum Thani residents seek help from military junta to stop thrash burning power plant project. Local residents of Chiang Rak Yai subdistrict in Pathum Thani province have asked the military junta to stop the construction of a trash-burning power […]

Residents in the Pracha Songkhro area of Huai Khwang district gather in early June with a banner urging the Orange Line to travel on Rama IX Road instead. (Photo by Apichit Jinakul) The Mass Rapid Transit Authority has reversed course on the route for its Orange Line extension, agreeing to return to the original plan […]

The Airports of Thailand Plc (AoT) aims to expand Suvarnabhumi and Don Mueang airports to be able to cope with up to 120 million passengers a year by 2021, according to the AoT president, Nitinai Sirismatthakarn. The AoT is working on a master plan to develop the airports in line with growth in the aviation […]

Power pylons surge above a village in northern Phuket. Photo: Tanyaluk Sakootf Yet the move to upgrade Phuket’s power supply is critical, say officials from the Electricity Generation Authority of Thailand (Egat), with the island consuming more electricity with each passing year. Phuket’s demand this year requires 391MW of electrical supply, Wichai Simadhamnand, Assistant Governor […]

Representatives of the Wyndham Hotel Group toast the opening of the Wyndham Sea Pearl Resort Phuket together with Thai ministers. Mrs Kobkarn Wattanavrangkul, Minister of Tourism and Sports, Mr Pornchai Rujiprapa, Minister of Information and Communication Technology and Mr Sommai Phasee, Minister of Finance welcomed the world’s largest hotel company, Wyndham Hotel Group, to Thailand […]

Motorcycles try to get into the traffic lane as they are not allow to continue onto the bridge on Si Ayutthaya Road. (Bangkok Post traffic) City Hall plans to build a four-lane tunnel along Si Ayutthaya Road to ease the heavy traffic congestion through the main intersection. Motorists will be able to bypass the intersection […]