The Thailand Tobacco Monopoly (TTM) has received cabinet approval to use its own funds to construct a 16.2-billion-baht factory at an industrial estate in Ayutthaya province. The board of the state enterprise approved the purchase of land in the industrial estate in August last year. TTM so far has spent 679.11 million baht out of […]
Continue ReadingTOT Plc opened the sale of bidding documents yesterday for its 3G nationwide network expansion project worth 19.98 billion baht. Bid document sales will run until Dec 27. Bidders buying the documents are required to submit their technical and financial proposals back to TOT by Jan 10 along with the details of their creditor banks. […]
Continue ReadingBangkok announced a new 660,000 kilowatts of supercritical power plant will use Experion? Process Knowledge System (PKS) for the control run. The plant is located in Rayong Matta House (MaptaPhut, Rayong), Thailand’s electricity supply company organized by the Glow Group subsidiary GHECO-One independent power producers to operate. The power plant plans into operation in 2011, […]
Continue ReadingThe first boutique hotel development will be a high quality 5-star resort with 167 hotel rooms and suites at Cox’s Bazar southern Bangladesh. Other developments already on the drawing board will be at Chittagong and Inani Beach. Cox’s Bazar is also the home of the world’s longest sand beach, measuring 155 km from one end […]
Continue ReadingPhuket’s Building Boom: No End in Sight By Chutima Sidasathian THE Baan Krating Phuket Resort, tucked away along the coast from Phuket’s Nai Harn beach, is adding 37 rooms, a sub-committee of the Governor’s Special Committee on Environmental Approvals heard today. The sub-committee also heard that application has been made to build another deep sea […]
Continue ReadingChina-Thailand deal agreed in principle Thailand and China have agreed in principle on a 250-billion-baht joint investment in a high-speed rail project linking Nong Khai in the Northeast with Bangkok and continuing to the southern border town of Padang Besar, a total distance of 1,500 kilometres. The target speed of the rail project is 200-250km/h, […]
Continue ReadingSuthep hopes project will be finished by 2015 China is pushing Thailand to give its quick approval for an Asian railway project linking the Lao border in the northeast with Malaysia in the south. Deputy Prime Minister Suthep Thaugsuban said yesterday after returning from China that the government hoped to complete the Thai section of […]
Continue ReadingLuxury segment has ‘too many players’ Centara Hotels & Resorts hopes its latest launch of three-star Centra and Centara Boutique Collection brands will become its key revenue driver in hotel management over the next few years. Ronnachit Mahattanapreut, senior vice-president for finance of Central Plaza Hotel Plc (Centel), the parent firm of Centara, said it […]
Continue ReadingITD Cementation India has announced that the company in Joint Venture with its promoter, Italian-Thai Development Public Company Ltd, Thailand one of the leading contracting organizations in South East Asia, has been awarded a contract worth over Rs 228 crore by Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC) for construction of elevated road & metro viaduct for […]
Continue ReadingNong Khai-Padang Bezar high-speed train construction to be done in 4 years: Suthep Deputy Prime Minister Suthep Thaugsuban said the construction of the Nong Khai(Thailand)-Bangkok-Padang Bezar (Malaysia) high-speed train will start next year and will be completed in four years. Suthep said he visited China to discuss the project in details on Saturday.
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