BMA ‘ready’ to pay off B19bn of MRTA debts City Hall has welcomed the government’s decision to let it take over the extension of the Green Line electric rail from Bearing to Samut Prakan. The line was previously under the care of the Mass Rapid Transit Authority of Thailand (MRTA). The Bangkok Metropolitan Administration (BMA) […]
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Changes in the economic environment unconsciously affect our behavior and it is therefore necessary to adapt to these changes especially where residences, which change with the times are concerned. Phuket is a tourist city well known all over the world. It is also known to be strong economically. Having looked into the past investment trends […]
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Anantara Hotels, Resorts & Spas, has added Anantara Siam Bangkok Hotel to its portfolio, effective 1 March, when the group took over the management of the former Four Seasons. Located in prestigious Rajadamri in the city’s Siam district, the hotel is now the brand’s flagship in its home market of Thailand. The property started its […]
Continue ReadingAYUTTHAYA, Thailand, March 5 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – N estled among hundreds of identical white and brown two-storey homes crammed in this neighbourhood for factory workers is a house with a trick – one not immediately apparent from its green-painted drywall and grey shade panels. Hidden under the house and its wraparound porch are steel […]
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Thailand’s Transport Ministry is planning to open two cruise liner ports with one in Krabi and the other in Surat Thani. A yacht show is also being scheduled Thailand’s Transport Ministry unveiled their plans to build two cruise liner ports. A port will be built in Krabi and Surat Thani. The plans come as no […]
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The Department of Highways will sell terms for the bidding contest of the Pattaya-Map Ta Phut motorway construction this month and the new route should be completed in four years. The Department of Highways will sell bidding-contest terms for the Pattaya-Map Ta Phut motorway this month with hopes of having the new route open in […]
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Bangkok Metropolitan Administration held the first public hearing on its electric railway extension from Bang Wa to Taling Chan on Tuesday. The new link is expected to come into service in 2020. (File photo by Pornprom Satrabhaya) Team Consulting Engineering and Management Co, a consultant BMA hired to study the project, introduced the three options […]
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BALTIMORE, MD – InternationalLiving.com’s new 2015 Global Retirement Index rates two Asian havens and three South and Central American destinations as the five countries in the world most affordable for expats. Of the top 25 retirement havens identified in InternationalLiving.com’s new Annual Global Retirement Index as the best places in the world to retire to […]
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New plans are out for the world’s first lagoon power plants, to be built here in the UK. The gigantic lagoons – like big man-made lakes – would generate electricity using the power of the sea’s tides. There are plans for six lagoons in total – four in Wales, one in the south-west of England […]
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The terms may look tempting, but will the courts agree? PHUKET: — In a shock decision by the Phuket Civil Court, backed by the Region 8 Appellate Court, it has been ruled that the so-called “secured leases” offered by some real estate developers to allow foreigners to secure a cast-iron 90-year lease are not valid. […]
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