MAI-listed property developer J.S.P. Property Plc will form a joint venture with China’s Zhongtian Construction Group to develop a mixed-use project worth 15 billion baht in Chon Buri next year. J.S.P. will own 51% of the joint venture, which will buy two adjacent plots of land with a combined size of 161 rai in tambon Bang […]
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BeIN Sports landed the broadcast rights for EPL for the next three seasons from 2016. The recent Chelsea-Liverpool game was aired on CTH and its partners’ platforms here. EPA Several Thai broadcasters have shown interest in securing sublicensing rights for the English Premier League (EPL), the most watched sports content among Thai fans, for the next […]
Continue ReadingThailand’s electricity generation system will find it difficult to endure a disruption of natural gas from Myanmar of more than 10 days. Soonchai Kumnoonsate, governor of the Electricity Generating Authority of Thailand, said on Wednesday that power plants with a combined capacity of almost 6 gigawatts here are dependent on supplies from the neighbouring country. […]
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Public hopes are high that khlong water will be purified in the government’s new clean-up project. (File photo by Panupong Changchai) When one looks at the state of Bangkok canals today, it is hard to imagine that they were once filled with clear, clean water teeming with aquatic life. Khlongs, as canals are called in […]
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Two companies from Korea and a Myanmar conglomerate have submitted a joint proposal to the Ministry of Construction to build an expressway from Yangon to Bago. Capital Diamond Star Group (CDSG) hopes to work with South Korea’s Lotte E&C and Halla Corporation to build the road, which would link Yangon to a new international airport […]
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WHA plans to focus more on renewable energy, especially solar rooftop and waste-to-energy business. (Bangkok Post file photo) The country’s leading warehouse developer plans to invest more than 32 billion baht over the next five years expanding its business at home and across Southeast Asia. WHA Corp, the market leader in building bespoke warehouses for […]
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MahaNakhon tower in Thailand. Image © OMA / Büro Ole Scheeren 2009 Hong Kong- and Beijing-based Büro Ole Scheeren is expanding with the opening of two new offices in Berlin and Bangkok. As its founder, German architect Ole Scheeren says, the expansion will extend the practice’s range of work with projects in Europe and North […]
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Officials attend a ceremony to open a depot for the Purple Line in Bang Yai district in Nonthaburi province on Tuesday. (Photo by Wichan Charoenkiatpakul) A train depot for the Purple Line opened on Wednesday but the mass-transit line is far over budget because of a decision to bypass communities. But the recent decision by […]
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During an average working life Mr or Miss Average will rack up 9,024 hours of unpaid overtime, take 94 days off sick and work for six different employers The Association of Accounting Technicians commissioned the study into our working lives Photo: Alamy Stock Photo A new study which polled 2,000 adults on their work life so […]
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In Thailand, the main consumers of sturgeon and black caviar are the members of the upper middle class. Source: Press photo Five years ago, Thai businessman Noppadon Khamsai and his Russian partner Alexey Tyutin saw an opportunity in Asia’s growing demand for caviar. The duo decided to build a sturgeon-breeding farm in Hua-Hin, with a […]
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