Long-anticipated revisions to Burma’s Mining Law, which were passed by the outgoing Parliament at the end of last year, could spur foreign investment in a sector that is still vulnerable to frontier market perils. The new law, which was finalized after being stalled in Parliament for more than two years, is significantly more favorable to […]
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Phuket airport’s long-delayed expansion will reach a milestone on Feb 14 when the new passenger terminal has its trial run. The scheduled kick-off follows the completion of the four-storey international terminal that forms the major part of the 5.14-billion-baht expansion of the country’s third-busiest airport. A Thai Airways International flight, TG 609 from Hong Kong, […]
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LAOS, OFTEN called the “Battery of Asean”, will live up to its name by supplying Asean power at a critical time, when energy demand in the region’s fast growing economies threatens shortages amid several infrastructure and urbanisation projects, pledged Laos Vice Minister for Energy Viraphonh Vilavong. Thailand, which depends on natural gas for 70 per […]
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THE CONTROVERSIAL Thai-Chinese medium-speed railway project requiring an estimated investment of over Bt500 billion is facing increased uncertainties after the Thai government insisted that China should take more financial responsibility for the 800km-plus rail route from Bangkok to Nong Khai province in the Northeast. Meanwhile, the Jakarta Post reported that Indonesia’s first high-speed railway connecting […]
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Phnom Penh Special Economic Zone (PPSEZ) has signed an agreement with a Singaporean clean energy firm to install and operate a solar panel system inside the 357-hectare industrial park, The Phnom Penh Post reported. According to the firm’s statement, Cleantech Solar Corporation will lease a photovoltaic solar system to PPSEZ as part of a pilot […]
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Are you someone who enjoys a cable car ride in any place you travel to? Then you must consider booking your next holiday to Vietnam. World’s longest three-rope cable car system was inaugurated in Vietnam’s Lao Cai province on Tuesday. Connecting the Muong Hoa Valley and Fansipan mountain, which is known as the Roof of […]
Continue ReadingThe ambitious plan to build a nuclear power plant in Cambodia with technical assistance from Russia announced in November during a visit by that country’s premier was unrealistic at this time, a senior official from state-run energy supplier Electricite du Cambodge (EDC) said yesterday. “Cambodia is not ready for construction of nuclear power plant,” EDC […]
Continue ReadingYangon – More than 70 local and foreign companies have submitted their expression of interests to develop the land plot surrounding the Yangon Central Railway Station, according to Myanmar Railways. An anonymous source from the tender scrutinising committee said that their bids would be shortlist and the result would be announced in the second week […]
Continue ReadingOne of the downsides to an authoritarian military government is the public has little influence on politically important issues, such as energy policy. This becomes a problem when a government decides to support building large, centralised, coal-fired power stations in the face of sustained public opposition, such as the regular protests against the proposed plants […]
Continue ReadingSET-listed SPCG Plc is ratcheting up its international operations and will almost double its solar power generating capacity to 500 megawatts in three years. Solar farms and rooftop projects will be expanded in Japan, Myanmar and the Philippines as well as at home, said Wandee Khunchornyakong, chairwoman and chief executive of Thailand’s biggest solar power […]
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