Author: Peter Carlisle

The Bangkok Metropolitan Administration (BMA) is seeking Bt22 billion from the national government for new anti-flooding projects including several giant subterranean tunnels. Three of the tunnel projects have already had their designs completed, Adisak Khantee, director of the BMA’s Drainage and Sewerage Department, said yesterday. The six tunnels could help drain enough water to prevent […]

Kingdom Property has signed a contract with Bouygues Thai that will see the international construction company build the Thailand-based real estate developer’s highly anticipated debut project, Southpoint Pattaya. Located in the Pratumnak Hill area of South Pattaya, the piling of Southpoint by Thai BAUER will be completed this month after which the construction will begin […]

Leading real estate consultant CBRE Thailand reports a significant change of direction for the property market in Phuket, a trend which started late last year.  The change is likely to be the most significant since the Asian crisis in 1997 and is driven by a number of factors: namely the entry of Bangkok-based and Thai […]

The State Railway of Thailand (SRT) has hired a consultancy firm to conduct a feasibility study into a high-speed rail link between Bangkok and Rayong. The agency has agreed to pay Asian Engineering Consultants Corp 251 million baht to conduct a 14-month study of the 221-km project, SRT governor Prapat Chongsanguan said. The scheme is […]

Canadian Solar Inc. has signed an exclusive module supply agreement to provide 91 MW of its CS6X photovoltaic modules to Soleq Solar Co. Ltd. for power plant projects in Thailand. The solar power plants will be owned and operated by Soleq. Juwi will provide engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) services for seven projects with a […]

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 […]