Hongsa Lignite power project in Laos is proceeding as planned despite the court case against its major shareholder, with commercial operation scheduled to start in 2015. Banpu Plc, one of Asean’s leading coal companies, was ordered by Thailand’s Civil Court last month to pay 33 billion baht to Siva Nganthavee for the latter’s opportunity loss […]
Continue ReadingGlenn Frazier, the managing director of SNC-Lavalin (Thailand), said the company re-entered Thailand four years ago to provide full service to thermal power plants in the region. He said power business demand in Asia has risen rapidly on the back of economic growth in the region. The thermal sector includes power plants fuelled by natural […]
Continue ReadingThailand’s energy sector has come under increasing pressure in recent years. Rising energy prices as a result of economic growth, inflation and the removal of distorting subsidies have sparked public unrest. Continued economic growth has also raised question marks over energy security: over the last 25 years, energy consumption has grown at 6.2 per cent […]
Continue ReadingThailand will conduct a study on the construction of a nuclear power plant, the energy minister said. Speaking after a seminar on “No Shortage of Thai Energy: Thai Logistics in Progress”, Arak Chonlatanon said the ministry was preparing the country’s new power production capacity development plan (PDP 2012) to ensure energy sufficiency. Thailand has utilised about […]
Continue ReadingBangkok’s senior sex tourist population is facing its greatest crisis in decades as the demolition of the nightlife zone known as Washington Square has left them with nowhere to go. Dozens, and sometimes up to a hundred portly Western men with bad skin, aged 55-80, have been reported wandering around the Sukhumvit Soi 22 area […]
Continue ReadingNew service aimed at foreigners who went to wrong airport by mistake Thai Airways today announced the launch of service between Bangkok’s Don Muang Airport and Bangkok’s Suvarnabhumi Airport. Beginning April 30, passengers can fly six times daily from one side of Bangkok to the other in under an hour. “Last year alone we had […]
Continue ReadingThe Department of Special Investigation (DSI) will probe allegations of graft and ineffectiveness in the Bangkok Metropolitan Administration’s multi-billion-baht Rama IX-Ramkhamhaeng “giant tunnel” and six other water drainage facilities, DSI chief Tharit Pengdit announced yesterday. The investigation is in response to a request submitted to the DSI by Pheu Thai Party spokesman Prompong Nopparit against […]
Continue ReadingBangkok Pheu Thai MPs Vicharn Meenchainant, Jirayu Huangsap and Polapoom Wipatpoom-iprathet have called for the Office of Transport and Traffic Policy and Planning (OTP) and the Transport Ministry to reconsider an existing plan to construct a train line from Chaeng Watthana Road to Min Buri. Mr Vicharn said that instead of following the current plan […]
Continue ReadingST Electronics was awarded a contract by VGI Global Media Public Company Limited to supply half height platform screen doors for the BTS SkyTrain in Bangkok,Thailand. The S$13m contract includes two-year maintenance services of the doors, which will be installed in nine BTS Skytrain stations. Work has commenced and is expected to be completed at […]
Continue ReadingThe revised Power Development Plan (PDP) spanning 2013-30 requires a total budget of 800 billion baht for power plants and transmission lines, said the Electricity Generating Authority of Thailand (Egat). The PDP, which was revised a month ago, aims to add 55,000 megawatts of new capacity by 2030, said Pongdith Potchana, Egat’s deputy governor for […]
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