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The train route that is set to connect Poipet to Thailand, and the government’s plan to make Poipet a commercial and industrial area, are readying this Thai-bordered city to exercise its potential. In accordance with Thailand’s Thai +1 Policy, more Japanese investors will start to pour into the area in the future, while experts from […]
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Thailand’s Ratchaburi Electricity Generating Holding Pcl said on Tuesday (09/08) it has raised its 2023 capacity target by 3 percent to 10,000 megawatts (MW) as it wanted to invest more in renewable energy to boost growth. Of the target, 20 percent or 2,000 MW will come from renewables, which has strong growth prospects, Rum Herabat, […]
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Cambodia needs to focus on solidifying its national grid and shoring up its energy efficiency and transmission lines before expanding into more costly renewable technology, a visiting executive of German engineering giant Siemens said yesterday. Markus Lorenzini, president and CEO of Siemens for Thailand, Cambodia and Myanmar, said that by strengthening the existing electricity supply, […]
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WHA Corporation Tuesday announced that it would expand its footprint in ASEAN countries over the next five years, and would invest 43 billion baht ($1.2 billion) to xpand its logistics and warehouse businesses at home and in Southeast Asia. Due to its aggressive investment, the company has forecast that its revenues will rise from 13.1 […]
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Vietnamese realty group Hoang Anh Gia Lai on Sunday put into operation a five-star hotel in Yangon, Myanmar. The hotel is housed in the group’s Myanmar Center, located some eight kilometers from downtown Yangon, on Kaba Aye Pagoda Road in Bahan Township. Hoang Anh Gia Lai (HAGL) Group is one of the leading real estate […]
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Thai shopping mall operator Central Pattana will stretch outside of its Bangkok base, with locations to open this week and next year in areas where the economy is expanding as well as near the nation’s borders. The company, the real estate development arm of retail giant Central Group, said Monday it will open a mall […]
Continue ReadingAGRICULTURE and property firm HLH Group has sold more than 51 per cent of the residential units of its first real estate project in Cambodia. D’Seaview, a mixed-use development of 737 residential units in the coastal town of Sihanoukville, saw “strong demand”, mainboard-listed HLH said on Thursday. The commercial space and the balance 49 per […]
Continue ReadingOne of the most exciting accommodation spaces these days is the emerging poshtel products that are cutting into the cookie cutter hotel mold and gathering followers. Today the traditional hostel model is out the window and in comes poshtels which offer not only the traditional shared rooms but a hybrid that also has private rooms […]
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The Beijing-based PowerChina Resources Limited (PCR), a shareholder of Sinohydro Kamchay Hydroelectric Project Co. Ltd, which developed the Kamchay hydroelectric dam in Kampot, expressed its interest in building electricity transmission lines in Cambodia. This expression of interest was made when the director general of PCR, Du Chunguo, met the Kingdom’s Minister of Mines and Energy, […]
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Cambodia is committed to complete construction of the 6.5-kilometre cross-border railway linking Poipet town to Aranyaprathet by the year’s end. Public Works and Transport Minister Sun Chanthol gave the assurance on Sunday when he inspected the construction site in Poipet in Banteay Meanchey province where the railway tracks from Cambodia and Thailand will meet, the […]
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