Inside the Sathorn Unique, One of Bangkok’s ‘Ghost Towers’

Inside the Sathorn Unique, One of Bangkok’s ‘Ghost Towers’ Urban archaeologist Dr Hank Snaffler, Jr of Abandoned Journey took his camera into the Sathorn Unique, a 50-storey never-completed skyscraper in downtown Bangkok. Construction started 14 years ago, but development was killed after the 1997 Asian financial crisis, leaving the Sathorn Unique to the same fate […]

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Ready for a dust-up over construction pollution

Actress and judge take property developers to court over health woes As housing projects sprout up across Bangkok, more residents living near construction sites have resorted to court action to deal with health and environmental hazards. Actress and model Nichapa Saesoul, better known as Wae Soul, lodged a lawsuit with the Civil Court on June […]

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Caterpillar to Open Thailand Facility for Dozers

Caterpillar announced today that it plans to open a new manufacturing facility for medium track-type tractors in Thailand. Caterpillar announced today that it plans to open a new manufacturing facility in Thailand. Construction will begin on the new factory in 2011, with production scheduled to begin in late-2013. The facility will produce medium track-type tractors, […]

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Ratchaburi powers up in Laos

Ratchaburi Electricity Generating Holding Plc (RATCH) is joining with Korean and Laotian partners to develop the 27-billion-baht Xe-Pian Xe-Namnoy hydroelectric power plant in Laos. Ratchaburi, Thailand’s largest private power producer, will hold 25% of a new joint operating company for the 390- megawatt plant. Another 26% will be held by Korea-based SK Engineering and Construction, […]

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Thailand’s Ch Karnchang wins bid for Bangkok rail project ‘Green Line’

Thailand’s Ch Karnchang Pcl has offered the lowest bid to build an elevated train system for Bangkok’s “green line” mass transit project, a government agency said on Thursday. It bid 14.14 billion baht ($462 million), lower than the 14.27 billion from Sino-Thai Engineering and Construction Pcl and 14.32 billion from Italian-Thai Development Pcl , a […]

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Phuket Railway bid has eye in the sky

Proposals for a rail network on Phuket appear to be getting more extravagant, with the latest company to express interest in the project advocating the construction of a sky train system, similar to Bangkok’s BTS network. Representatives from Gold Phoenix Construction Consulting (Thailand) Co Ltd, the Thai affiliate of Hong Kong-Korean joint venture company Zhi […]

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Yala business sector lauds B600m plant

The business sector in Yala is throwing its support behind a planned privately-owned biomass power plant which will generate 9.9 megawatts of electricity for the border province. The Federation of Thai Industries’ Yala province president Yoosin Jintapakorn yesterday said the 600 million baht plant located in Muang district would be environmentally friendly and pose no […]

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Phuket’s Six Senses Sanctuary will close July 31

Six Senses Resorts & Spas has agreed with the owner of Six Senses Sanctuary to “mutually part company” and terminate the management agreement for the property, which is located on Naka Yai island. In an email seen by HotelierMiddleEast.com yesterday, Six Senses CEO and chairman Sonu Shivdasani thanked his team and said: “The economic climate […]

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Bintan to Build Airport to Serve Island Resorts

Bintan Resorts International, a Singapore-based developer, plans to complete construction of a private airport on an island in western Indonesia by 2014, allowing visitors to fly in from other countries and stay at its resorts here. The company has developed resorts that cover 18,000 hectares in the northern coast of Bintan Island, and the airport, […]

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