As the chair of the Preparedness Centre for the Asean Community (PCAC), Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha must be accountable for any delay or ineffective implementation of all Asean blueprints. Although Thailand has done very well on the political-security and social-cultural pillars, the implementation of economic action plans has been incomplete. The prime minister must save […]
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The booth of Kobleck in Cambodia Construction Industrial Expo 2015 in Koh Pich. KT/ Fabien Mouret The supply of heavy construction machinery has been rising in tandem with the construction boom over the past five years, with some companies seeing a 15-20 percent annual rise in sales of new machinery every year as buyers switch […]
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Protesters hold a banner opposing a coal-fired power plant project in Songkhla’s Thepha district. A Greenpeace report suggests 1,150 Thais die prematurely every year due to atmospheric pollution from coal-fired power plants. Chanat Katanyu At the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Paris this year, Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha reaffirmed the country’s commitment to a 20% […]
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Thailand, Malaysia and the Philippines are making serious efforts to become hotspots for solar development as interest in PV grows across Asia. Thailand alone already has reached more than 1 GW of installed solar. And that is set to dramatically increase, said Josefin Berg, senior analyst at IHS. Any newly proposed solar project in the […]
Continue Reading60 megawatt (MW) wind farm to be built in Petchaboon, Thailand Contract with Khao Kor Wind Power Co., Ltd. includes 24 of GE’s 2.5-120 wind turbines Project will aid Thailand in reaching goal of 25 percent renewable energy by 2021 GE Renewable Energy (NYSE: GE) today announced it has signed a contract with Khao Kor […]
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For many years, large areas of land in Yangon have been handed over to well-connected companies for development, with little or no public information about the terms of the deals, and no space for smaller businesses to compete, said an industry body. Advertisements outside developments near to the Shwedagon Pagoda were taken down after the […]
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Thailand and Laos have a track linking the two countries at the Friendship Bridge in the capital Vientiane and Nong Khai. (File photo by Tawatchai Kemgumnerd) Construction a joint Lao-Chinese railway project has begun after the two governments kicked off the project in a ground-breaking ceremony on Wednesday. The nations used the Lao National Day […]
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SECOND PUBLIC HEARING HELD ON 149KM RIVERSIDE PROJECT A SECOND public hearing on the Chao Phraya River promenade project was met with concern yesterday from some public-sector representatives. They feared it might have an impact on the nearby communities’ identity – though many others have come out in support of the project. The Office of […]
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The platform of BTS Saphan Taksin in 2004 photo. Photo: Tom Page / Flickr BANGKOK — A moving walkway to whisk commuters nearly a kilometer from BTS Surasak to the Chao Phraya River is one option in a long-delayed plan to rebuild or remove the 16-year-old “temporary” Skytrain station located at Saphan Taksin. Whether the […]
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China has shown off its vision of high-speed train services, such as this exhibition at Makkasan station. (Photo by Thanarak Khunton) The signing of a memorandum of cooperation (MoC) between Thailand and China on a new railway development project planned for tomorrow has been shelved after China failed to honour an associated agreement on rubber […]
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