Pattaya Property and Thailand’s Real Estate Book is on sale now As is the case with most of the property markets in Asia, the Thai real estate market emerged practically unscathed from the recession in the Western World and, over the past two years, has gone from strength to strength. After Bangkok, which has been a […]
Continue ReadingConstruction of ten more routes in Thailand’s Northeast with a budget of Bt18.6 billion was endorsed by the Public-Private Partnership Committee meeting in this northeastern province today. Deputy Prime Minister/Finance Minister Kittiratt Na Ranong said the committee agreed on the new infrastructure, affirming that the big-budget routes will be put in the government’s Bt2 trillion […]
Continue ReadingThailand-based ONYX Hospitality Group marked a key milestone in the development of one of its upcoming projects, OZO Chaweng Samui, with a ‘ground breaking’ ceremony to mark the start of construction at the project site. Located in the popular and central resort area, Chaweng, the new OZO will be the first OZO property in Thailand as […]
Continue ReadingSixteen large industrial projects worth a combined 117 billion baht won Board of Investment (BoI) approval yesterday including proposals by big regional players Toyota, IRPC and PTT. With the BoI’s green light, PTT plans to spend 23 billion baht to develop a natural gas transport network linking Ayutthaya’s Wang Noi with Nakhon Sawan province, 16 […]
Continue ReadingKey oil and gas investors from across Asia will gather in Singapore this September to grow their portfolios during the 2nd Oil & Gas Investor Summit Asia. With more than half the world’s population residing in Asia, demand for power surpasses what the rest of the world requires to support its robust economy. Asia is […]
Continue ReadingFoster Wheeler AG announced today that a subsidiary of its Global Engineering and Construction Group has been awarded a contract by Samsung Engineering Co. Ltd. (Samsung) for a waste heat recovery unit for PTT Public Company Limited’s (PTT) Power Generation and Heat Recovery project at the Map Ta Phut Industrial Complex in Thailand. Samsung is […]
Continue ReadingA seminar on a new electrical generating plant planned for Krabi attracted 600 people on Saturday (July 28), but villagers most likely to be affected by the plant have asked for more information relating to health and pollution impacts. The new 800-megawatt Electrical Generating Authority of Thailand (EGAT) facility is planned in connection with the […]
Continue ReadingVisit http://www.cleanenergyexpoasia.com for further information With its abundance of natural resources, governments across Asia are putting in place strategies to decrease reliance on fossil fuel and promote the development of clean energy sources. Despite the uncertainty over economic growth and policy priorities in developed economies, global new investment in renewables rose 17 percent to a […]
Continue ReadingThe move comes amid discussions on whether it will maintain operations in Ayutthaya’s flood-prone Saha Rattana Nakorn Industrial Estate. James Phillips, the managing director of Ecco (Thailand), said the new factory in Saraburi is scheduled to be completed in September 2013. The 55-rai plot in Hemaraj Industrial Estate is 5.5 metres above sea level and […]
Continue ReadingThe oil and gas industry has had the highest number of prosecutions for bribery in the UK compared to any other sector in recent years. Five (almost 20%) of the 26 cases of bribery and graft prosecuted since 2008 were in the oil and gas sector. Other top offending sectors were construction, medical goods and insurance […]
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