Author: Peter Carlisle

Seven companies from across five countries have partnered up with Jakarta Monorail to build Indonesia’s first monorail system, officials said on Saturday. Jakarta Monorail and its new parent company Ortus Holdings signed an agreement with Indonesian telecommunication company Indosat, Germany’s TUV Rheinland Group, Thailand’s Bangkok Mass Transportation System, Singapore’s ST Electronics and SMRT International and […]

Airports of Thailand Plc (AoT) is adopting a fast-track approach to arrest the capacity shortfall at Thailand’s top three airports. The move will accelerate development beyond the existing time lines, which have proved insufficient to keep pace with spiking air traffic. Designed to deal with more immediate traffic build-up will be the opening of a […]

The Mass Rapid Transit Authority (MRTA) on Sunday approved the planned construction of the Orange Line electric train on the eastern section of Bangkok between Thailand Cultural Centre and Min Buri. MRTA chairwoman Ratchanee Treepipatkul said the board would soon ask the cabinet to approve a budget of 85.4 billion baht for the construction of […]

Thailand has selected four winners for water management projects worth around 290 billion Thai baht ($9.5 billion) aimed at preventing a repeat of devastating floods in late 2011. The flooding cut Thailand’s economic growth to just 0.1 percent in 2011 but the water projects and other infrastructure work are expected to drive the economy in […]

They were built to symbolize the city’s prosperity and vision. But after years of abandonment, stalled development or economic crisis, some of the world’s most amazing buildings have fallen into ruin and instead come to epitomize national struggle. From Thailand’s 49-storey Sathorn Unique which was abandoned after the 1997 financial crisis to Venezuela’s luxury skyscraper-turned-world’s […]