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Major shortages among Australian mining and resource companies are providing opportunities for skilled British engineers to head down under There is a shortfall of about 20,000 professional engineers in Australia and this number is expected to rise further due to the mining and resources boom and large infrastructure projects. Australian exports of natural resources and […]

Thailand Immigration Rules Eased for Alien Specialists to work on the revival of flood-stricken manufacturing facilities The Cabinet has approved a decision to be lenient on immigration and visa rules for foreign specialists employed by Thai or foreign operators to work on the revival of flood-stricken manufacturing facilities. Deputy Government Spokesman Chalitrat Chandrubeksa said the […]

An online survey conducted by HSBC Bank has ranked Singapore as the top overall destination for expatriates, with South-east Asian countries also faring strongly – for those without children, that is. The results, released on Monday, canvassed more than 3,500 expats in 31 countries. Factoring in three criteria – economics, experience and raising children abroad […]

In our garden sanctuary, we may escape life’s burdens to be ourselves. If you’ve no shed, as Mark Antony came tantalisingly close to declaiming in Julius Caesar, prepare to tear up now. “You” in this context is shorthand, of course, for “you men”… all you poor, pathetic shedless saddoes who will shortly well up from […]

Force majeure is an event that occurs beyond your reasonable control or anticipation. When that event prevents you from performing your contractual obligations, you are ordinarily released from liability for damages caused by that breach. The rationale is that it would not be just to blame you for breach of contract when the contract became […]

In putting together http://thailand-construction.com website, it is an assumption of what I believe people are interested in and looking for on the web in a Construction & Engineering website upon Thailand – I guess it mirrors what I look for on the web, that is Jobs, News, Events, etc. Currently THE most popular sections of […]

(1) Thailand Construction News (TCN) E-Newsletter, (2) the http://www.Thailand-Construction.com website and now (3) the Thailand Construction News LinkedIn Group are all aimed at construction and engineering professionals working in or with an interest in Thailand. To the best of my knowledge, http://www.Thailand-Construction.com website ranks in the top 10 in Google for searches of Thailand + […]

The Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (CIArb) recently carried out a survey from November 2010 to June 2011 into the ‘Costs of International Arbitration’. The survey was completed by completed by lawyers and international arbitrators from five continents. Information on 254 international arbitrations conducted between 1991 and 2010 was considered to be useful for statistical analysis. […]