On the 18th of February, a groundbreaking ceremony was held for IKEA’s new store in Bang Yai, Nonthaburi, Thailand. The new store will be located in the new Central WestGate shopping complex which when complete will be one of Thailand’s largest shopping malls. The new store is deliberately designed not to be a ‘blue box’. […]
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Japan’s foreign minister announced a multibillion-dollar initiative yesterday to promote development in Southeast Asia’s Mekong region, which encompasses parts of Vietnam, Laos and Thailand through which the river flows. In a speech at Chulalongkorn University in Bangkok, Fumio Kishida affirmed the importance of Southeast Asia’s economic prosperity to Japan. He pledged 750 billion yen (USD7 […]
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The monumental building work that is currently going on in Cambodian capital city Phnom Penh may also reveal the inadequacies of the country’s ‘progress’, writes David Hutt. When it was announced Tuesday 3 May that a 133-storey twin-towered skyscraper received government approval to be built in the centre of Phnom Penh, Cambodia’s capital, I was […]
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Heavy-lift specialist ALE said it will complete delivery of a breakbulk consignment of equipment for a wind farm project in Thailand. The cargo includes lifting and installation of 24 turbines, each rated at 2.5 megawatts, at a project site in Khao Kho, and another 30 similar turbines at Watabak, Thailand. “We have invested heavily into […]
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All aboard: A history of Cambodia’s railways By Brent Crane Last Saturday in Phnom Penh, to a crowd of thrilled townsfolk and pushy photographers, Prime Minister Hun Sen boarded a refurbished train at the Royal Railway Station bound for Sihanoukville. It was the grand reopening of Cambodia’s first passenger train in 14 years and, for […]
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Hemaraj Land and Development Pcl., one of Thailand’s top industrial real estate developers, is seeking permission to build two massive manufacturing zones in the central province of Nghe An, the provincial government’s website reported on Wednesday. Located near each other in the southeast of Nghe An, one of the industrial parks will cover more than […]
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An opening ceremony was held April 28 to kick off the second phase of construction of Laos’ 1,156-MW Nam Ou River Basin Hydropower Project, according to Vientiane Times. During the first phase, construction was completed on the Nam Ou 2, Nam Ou 5 and Nam Ou 6 plants. The first unit began generating electricity in […]
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Ambition is clearly always important in business – and Doncaster-based Donasonic have it in abundance. The firm specialises in making machinery that can transform household waste into energy before selling it to companies all over the globe. And with fossil fuel reserves such as oil, gas and coal ever diminishing, companies like Donasonic are becoming […]
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China National Petroleum Corporation (CNPC) Northeast Refining & Chemical Engineering Company on Wednesday secured an engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) contract from a Cambodian conglomerate to construct a 620 million-U.S.-dollar oil refinery in its first phase. The EPC contract was inked here between Li Limin, chairman of CNPC Northeast Refining & Chemical Engineering Company, and […]
Continue ReadingThe Cabinet has finally made a decision to solve the problem of connections between the two electric rail lines in Bangkok. Transport Minister Arkhom Termpittayapaisith said on Tuesday that the weekly Cabinet meeting has decided to make the operation of the Blue Line MRT extended rail service to the Tao Poon – Bang Sue station, […]
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