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Continue ReadingHaving a mortgage, owning a ‘best’ crockery set and being able to bleed a radiator are just some of the signs of being a grown up a new study suggests. The findings emerged from a study of 2,000 people to uncover the 50 things which show you have become a fully-fledged adult. Key signs of adulthood are […]
Continue ReadingAmata B Grimm Power Group has signed a 10-year agreement with Sumitomo Rubber (Thailand) Co to supply 40 megawatts of electricity and 28 tonnes per hour of steam to Sumitomo’s tyre factory in Amata City Industrial Estate in Rayong province. Sumitomo Rubber (Thailand) is one of the largest manufacturers of car tyres in the world, […]
Continue ReadingAirports of Thailand Plc today successfully had the consulting and management contract for the second phase development of Suvarnabhumi Airport, which would require a total investment of Bt62.5 billion. AOT President Aniruth Thanomkulabutr said after the contract signing with EPM Consortium that upon completion in 2017, the expanded Suvarnahbumi Airport will be able to accommodate […]
Continue ReadingSuvarnabhumi airport’s long-delayed 62.5-billion-baht expansion took its first step forward yesterday with the appointment of a consultancy group commissioned to ensure that all work involved is executed accordingly. Airports of Thailand Plc (AoT) awarded a 809.9-million-baht contract to the EPM Consortium as the project management consultant (PMC) for the scheme to raise the airport’s passenger-handling […]
Continue ReadingAOT AOT.BK, which runs the country’s six main airports, aims to boost capacity at Suvarnabhumi by 15 million to serve up to 60 million passengers in 2017, Anirut Thanomkulbutra told reporters. The $4 billion airport, which opened in September 2006 on what was once flooded marshland known as “cobra swamp”, is expected to serve about […]
Continue ReadingThe Mass Rapid Transit Authority of Thailand is entering negotiations with Italian-Thai Development with a view to the company lowering the bid price for the Purple Line’s sixth contract from Bt4.14 billion. The current bid price is higher than the median price of Bt3.66 billion. Expecting negotiations to be completed in two weeks, MRTA acting […]
Continue ReadingConstruction firm Demco aims to bid for additional projects worth Bt4 billion this year over and above the current backlog of Bt7.24 billion to ensure 50-per-cent revenue growth. Managing director Pongsak Siricupta said last week that the company has a backlog worth Bt7.24 billion, excluding its recent bid for state agency and private projects worth […]
Continue ReadingWith an investment of US$300 million, Caterpillar Inc, the world’s top maker of construction equipment, is in the process of turning Thailand into its main Southeast Asian production base. Two factories are being built in Hemaraj Rayong Industrial Land, with 95% of the output slated for export. Richard Lavin, president of the Illinois-based Caterpillar Group, […]
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When the Nathanson family first saw this house near Chiang Mai, Thailand, it was practically derelict. Thieves had stripped the unfinished structure and it was overgrown with vegetation. There are centuries of stories contained in the meter-thick teak columns of Barry Nathanson’s luxury fixer-upper in the northern hills of Thailand. The columns — 50 of […]
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