Thai PM to visit China in September Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva will visit China on September 4 to finalise details of the Thai-Chinese joint venture to invest in a high-speed train project in Thailand, said Finance Minister Korn Chatikavanij. The joint venture’s shareholders will be state enterprises of these countries, including the State Railway of […]
Continue ReadingEleven firms in fray for Red-Line work Eleven leading construction companies picked up bidding documents for the first and second contracts involving civil work on the Red Line’s Bang Sue-Rangsit section worth a combined Bt45 billion. The sale of the documents closed on Tuesday after starting on August 2. Yuthana Thapcharoen, governor of the State […]
Continue Reading‘Bold plan’ for Mekong area rail link approved A “bold” plan for a railway system connecting more than 300 million people who live around one of the world’s great rivers, the Mekong, was approved Friday, officials said. Ministers from Cambodia, China, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand and Vietnam adopted the plan which they called “a significant first […]
Continue Reading‘Bold plan’ for Mekong area rail link approved A “bold” plan for a railway system connecting more than 300 million people who live around one of the world’s great rivers, the Mekong, was approved Friday, officials said. Ministers from Cambodia, China, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand and Vietnam adopted the plan which they called “a significant first […]
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Magnolia reviving dormant hotel Luxury condominiums part of mixed-use plan A Ratchadamri Road building that has been dormant for 15 years will be revived by a new investor, Magnolia Quality Development Corporation Limited (MQDC), owned by the Cheavaranont family, with an estimated investment of at least 4 billion baht for construction. The site between Peninsula […]
Continue ReadingBangkok developers grab Ratchadamri Road’s last plot Scene of some of the fiercest fighting in May’s bloody crackdown and home to some of Bangkok’s finest establishments, including hotels the Hyatt Erawan and Four Seasons and the soon to be completed St Regis Residences, Ratchadamri Road in the centre of Bangkok, is set for a new […]
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THAILAND – CONSTRUCTION Beer bars torn down to ensure hot spot doesn’t go up in flames Nana has facelift to stay youngOne of Bangkok’s most notorious nightspots, Nana Plaza on Sukhumvit Soi 4, is getting a facelift. Many of the mostly foreign customers who frequent Nana Plaza have been surprised to find that all the […]
Continue ReadingCambodia: Financing for a $412m hydropower plant to be built in Koh Kong province has been agreed. The 338 MW plant is to be built and owned by affiliates of China’s Huadian Power International Corporation by 2014. China: Four Westinghouse AP1000 reactors are officially under construction in China after the pouring of the first concrete […]
Continue ReadingThe Electricity Generating Authority of Thailand (Egat) is discussing a pooled power facility and generation grid with other ASEAN members. “If this region can develop a power facility through a single system, it could maximize utilization and save investment costs of $788m for 15 future power projects across the region,” said Suthep Chimklai, director of […]
Continue ReadingSiemens Energy Sector has been awarded contracts for the turnkey construction of two combined-cycle power plants, including long-term service agreements in India. Siemens will erect the DGEN power plant on behalf of Torrent Energy Limited, in the port sity of Dahej on the southwest coast of the state of Gujarat. The DGEN power plant will […]
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