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We hope you find the information here relevant and useful to you, and interesting. As a little guide to help you find your way around our website, let us explain how to use the menu you see along the top of the website (the ‘Top Menu’). Reading from left to right: About Thailand Construction – […]

For many of our readers who’s interest touches on construction, design, project management and quantity surveying one of the bright spots for information is the Thailand Construction News (TCN) website. Free of charge the resource offers regular news updates about large projects, a job resource for both employers and those seeking work and listings of […]

Quality of life and retirement are the top reasons people leave UK while fish and chips and a good pint are missed most by expats, a new survey reveals today. Those from the south east of the country are the most likely to relocate abroad, according to the Happiness Index from Post Office International Payments. […]

Thailand developing dengue vaccine Researchers in Thailand say they have developed a prototype vaccine against dengue fever and will conduct further tests with the aim of bringing it to market within a decade. The vaccine against the mosquito-borne disease was jointly developed by scientists from Thailand’s Chiang Mai University, Mahidol University and the government’s National […]

Last Will and Testament Your Responsibility for the Future By: Sebastian H. Brousseau Top of Form When will you pass away? Whether fortunately or unfortunately, none of us really knows for sure and this is the argument for creating a last Will and testament to handle your affairs after death. We all know this, of […]

We recently received an email with the comments below from a TCN reader and ex-work colleague: I thought I give you my personal comment of the new TCN E-newsletter format. Perhaps it can be of some input. Personally I think the new TCN E-newsletter (web linked) is losing its appeal compared to the original TCN E-newsletter (PDF […]

Chad Creveling, CFA & Peggy Creveling, CFA One of the first financial questions foreigners planning to move to Thailand often have is how to transfer money in and out of the country. Luckily, the days of going down to Bangkok’s Chinatown with a suitcase of cash hoping to make a transaction are long over. Today, […]