Laos: no work on Xayaburi dam until green concerns solved

Laos said yesterday it would not make a final decision on construction of the Xayaburi dam in the main stream body of the Mekong River before approval by the international community and countries in the Lower Mekong basin over environment concerns. Work on the site by the Thai construction company Ch Karnchang was just preparation, […]

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Ajiya investing RM30mil in second plant in Thailand

Ajiya Bhd is investing RM30mil to set up a safety glass processing plant in Thailand this year the company’s second after a metal roofing manufacturing plant there. Managing director Chan Wah Kiang said construction of the facility would start any time now and was expected to be completed by the end of the year. He […]

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Ch.Karnchang says Controversial Xayaburi dam project has begun

 The controversial Xayaburi hydro-electric dam project in northern Laos may have already begun, despite countries, including Cambodia, requesting further studies to assess possible negative effects on Lower Mekong communities. According to a statement released on its website late on Tuesday, Thai development firm Ch.Karnchang said it was due to begin building the dam on March […]

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Vietnam seeks airport investors in bid to challenge Thailand

Vietnam is seeking foreign investors to help build two airports so it can compete with other Southeast Asian nations for regional air traffic. “We are in need of financial investments from many sources, domestic and foreign,” Nguyen Cong Hoan, director of planning and investment of a newly-established nationwide airport operator, Airports Corporation of Vietnam, said at […]

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