My wife and I decided to buy another house in Pattaya. The house we bought in 2010 is rented out via a long term contract and that is good as we do not live in Thailand. A few weeks holiday per year has been the norm (we are too young to retire or even qualify […]
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Sino-Thai Engineering and Construction Plc and Right Tunnelling Co won electronic auctions held yesterday to find contractors to build the State Railway of Thailand’s (SRT) dual-track rail route from Chachoengsao to Saraburi. Kamol Tangkijjaroen, deputy governor of the SRT, said the 106km-long rail project is broken into two contracts and the two companies won each of […]
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Skytron Energy is providing monitoring and supervision for nine solar power plants in Thailand with a total of 55MWp of installed power. The most recently added six plants in Central Thailand have a capacity of 37MWp. One of the new plants is owned by 5 AMATA and is situated near Amphoe Kanchanaburi. The other five plants […]
Continue ReadingSolar Frontier is bringing more of its CIS solar module technology to Southeast Asia. A 50 kilowatt rooftop installation for an Isuzu car dealership in Ratchaburi, Thailand, demonstrates the advantages of Solar Frontier’s CIS solar modules in the region’s climate. Isuzu is a popular car brand in Thailand, especially within the commercial auto segment. Installed […]
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Construction of Xe-Pian Xe-Namnoy Power Company’s (PNPC) US$1.02 billion 410-MW Xe-Pian Xe-Namnoy hydroelectric power project in Lao People’s Democratic Republic (Lao PDR) includes the construction of three dams: Houay Makchan Dam, Xe Pian Dam, and Xe-Namnoy Dam along the Mekong River. Xe-Pian and Xe-Namnoy are rockfill dams will be constructed on the Bolaven plateau, along […]
Continue ReadingAccording to a new report by Timetric’s Construction Intelligence Centre (CIC), Thailand’s construction industry is picking up with a more optimistic future outlook, after suffering a decline during the economic crisis. In real terms, the industry’s output value recorded a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of -0.23% during the review period (2010–2014). This decline was […]
Continue ReadingThe Lao and Chinese governments have signed an agreement to officially launch the construction of a new 418 kilometre railway next month. The agreement to begin the long-delayed project was signed on Friday in Beijing, the Vientiane Times online reported on Wednesday. “The signing of the agreement means the project has now begun,” Deputy Lao […]
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Terminal 2 at Don Mueang airport as it was photographed in September (photo by Thanarak Khunton) The completion of Terminal 2 at Bangkok’s Don Mueang airport, scheduled for next month, will be delayed again and authorities are yet to decide whether it should be partly opened to relieve congestion. Nitinai Sirismatthakarn, president of Airports of Thailand […]
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High-speed Harmony bullet trains are seen at a maintenance base in Wuhan, Hubei province. The Thai government on Tuesday approved a partnership framework on joint Thai-Chinese rail development. (Reuters photo) The cabinet approved a draft cooperation framework Tuesday for the Thai-Chinese railway development project. Government spokesman Sansern Kaewkamnerd said the draft framework covered the construction […]
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This Aug 6 photo shows an aerial view of the unfinished, corruption-plagued Klong Dan wastewater treatment facility in Bang B district of Samut Prakan. (Photo by Pattarapong Chatpattarasill) The cabinet on Tuesday approved a so-called “stupidity fee” of 9.8 billion baht to the consortium contracted to build the scandal-hit Klong Dan wastewater treatment plant. The […]
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