Vietnam begins construction on VinWonders Phu Quoc Island’s giant theme park Vietnam’s Vinpearl Joint Stock Company officially announced on 01 June 2020 a US$1 billion investment for the country’s largest amusement park, the VinWonders Phu Quoc project, on Phu Quoc island situated about 50 kilometres from the southwestern province of Hien Tien. Set on 27 […]
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Siemens SGT-800 gas turbine fleet in Thailand reaches 2.5 Million equivalent operating hours Over the years the SGT-800 has proven itself to be an extremely reliable product for Siemens’ customers worldwide. In 2012 the first Siemens SGT-800 gas turbine in Thailand went into commercial operation. Now in 2020 we have over 70 units in commercial […]
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Vietnam’s property prices rising strongly Nominal house prices up 20.9% in HCMC, 4.8% in Hanoi during the year to Q1 2020 In Ho Chi Minh City, apartment prices surged 20.9% in Q1 2020 from a year earlier, to an average of US$2,452 per sq. m, according to Jones Lang La Salle Vietnam. Likewise in Hanoi, […]
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Vietnam opens five-star Dolce Hanoi Golden Lake hotel, world’s first gold-plated hotel It has been months since many have travelled following the devastating effects of the coronavirus. But that has not stopped a Vietnam hotel from launching the world’s first gold-plated hotel. The five-star Dolce Hanoi Golden Lake hotel, owned by Hoa Binh Group and […]
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The next steps for Vietnam’s booming solar sector THANG NAM DO, PAUL BURKE Vietnam is showing promising early signs of emerging as a major solar producer, Thang Nam Do and Paul Burke write. 2019 was a bumper year for Vietnam’s solar sector. The country overtook Thailand to have Southeast Asia’s largest installed capacity of solar […]
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Chinese experts resume delayed work on Vietnam’s Hanoi metro line After undergoing a 14-day quarantine period to prevent Covid-19 before entering Vietnam, a group of 23 Chinese experts has begun to work on the long-delayed Cat Linh – Ha Dong urban railway in Hanoi. SEE ALSO: Vietnam’s HCMC Saigon Metro Faces Delay As Experts Unable […]
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Italthai Group’s new hotels on track – plan to open 12 new hotels in one year Onyx parent counts on tourism rebound Italthai Group, one of Thailand’s oldest construction and hospitality companies, is maintaining a plan to open 12 new hotels in one year despite the coronavirus crisis’s impact on the tourism and service industries. […]
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Fortune Hotel Group eyes popular Thai destinations after expanding mostly in provincial areas Fortune Hotel Group, the hospitality arm of CP Land Plc, is planning to shift its long-term plan to popular tourism destinations such as Phuket and Pattaya after expanding mostly in provincial areas for years. Chertchai Kamolnetr, vice-president of the hotel business group, […]
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Vietnam’s HCM City to develop hi-rises along metro line HCM City plans to stop construction of high-rise apartment buildings in downtown areas and focus instead on building such residential complexes along the first metro route in the eastern part of the city comprising districts 2, 9 and Thủ Đức. Under a new proposal for 2021-30 […]
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Myanmar engineers share knowledge with foreign counterparts in Yangon The Myanmar Engineering Council (MEC) with the involvement of the Federation of Myanmar Engineering Societies (FMES), the World Federation of Engineering Organizations (WFEO), and the Federation of Engineering Institutions of Asia and Pacific (FEIAP) held a seminar conducted over the Internet on the responsibility and accountability […]
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