Govt sending mixed signals on renewables, while strongly supporting coal. A company set up a “Solar Charger Station” display at an exhibition last February to show how solar energy could be harnessed to charge mobile phones. Two years ago, all Kordin Chaihae could do after sunset was to sit quietly by a candle in his […]
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The government approved a draft memorandum of understanding (MoU) yesterday to purchase electricity from the Nam Thuen 1 hydropower project in Laos. The draft MoU was endorsed by the National Energy Policy Committee chaired by Prime Minister Gen Prayut Chan-o-cha, which will see Thailand buy 520 megawatts of power in 2022 worth 2.67 baht per […]
Continue ReadingCambodia and Thailand have agreed to push ahead with completion of a railway line from Bangkok to Phnom Penh, with the two countries signing a memorandum of understanding during Prime Minister Hun Sen’s visit to the neighbouring country last week. The long-delayed project is part of the eastern corridor of the Singapore-Kunming Rail Link, a […]
Continue ReadingEditorial Opinion Justice always comes late. But when it came last Thursday — in one of the Klong Dan corruption cases — it was indeed welcome because, at least, it has proven that corruption does not pay. Three former officials of the Pollution Control Department (PCD), namely Pakit Kiravanich, the former director-general of the department, […]
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TAMAKI KYOZUKA, Nikkei staff writer There’s nothing like a road trip to get a sense of a place. So to see for ourselves how Southeast Asia is preparing for the launch of the ASEAN Economic Community, we hit the highway and followed Toyota Motor’s ground supply chain across Indochina. Members of the Association of Southeast […]
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Sanitas, judge Christine Murray, and Pitupong, from left Pitupong Chaowakul just loves an architectural challenge. Pitupong Chaowakul just loves an architectural challenge. The man behind the building-design firm Supermachine happened to be on the same plane as Soopsip flying from London, where he’d claimed the Grand Prize in the Architectural Review Emerging Awards. (Soopsip had […]
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On December 14 concessionaire Bangkok Metro Public Co started test running on the first section of the Purple Line in Bangkok, in the presence of Prime Minister Gen Prayut Chan-o-cha. The 23 km elevated route linking Bang Yai in northwest Bangkok to Tao Pun in the city centre is due to open for revenue service […]
Continue ReadingSpanish wind turbine manufacturer Gamesa SA (BME:GAM) today said it had successfully installed its first G114-2.0 MW wind turbine in Thailand. The turbine has been erected at the Subplu1 wind farm which is Gamesa’s first project breakthrough in the Thai market. Under an agreement that Gamesa signed with Chinese developer PowerChina ZhongNan in July 2015, […]
Continue ReadingThe Royal Group, in partnership with a Thailand-based Swiss investor, will build a 148-room five-star hotel on Preah Sihanouk’s Koh Rong island, with the group having completed a ground-breaking ceremony on Saturday. Khin Remy, an assistant to Kith Meng, the chairman of Royal Group, said the new villa-style resort will be called Royal Sands Koh […]
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Syntec Construction has taken delivery of Thailand’s first Potain MCR 160 luffing jib crane. Launched in July the MR 160 has been designed to offer both internal and external climbing configurations with tower sections measuring either two metre or 1.6 metre depending on job site needs. Its first contact is on the 130 metre tall […]
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