Design re-thinks needed for Phuket and Bangkok Hotels

A hotel design consultant currently working on the interior design for the Regent Phuket, which opens here early next year, says that many hotels, particularly in Phuket and Bangkok, need to rethink their aesthetics in order to remain competitive. Competition is now fierce as many thousands of new rooms are coming on the market, not […]

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Laos’s Spanking New Road to Nowhere

China’s growing presence—with infrastructure building, laborers and casinos— worries tiny Laos A two-lane asphalt road between Nan, Thailand, and Oudomxay, Laos, designed to boost regional trade and tourism, opened in mid-September with characteristic fanfare. Four Lao hill tribe models coyly held up banners, welcoming a Thai delegation to their village bordering Thailand’s northern province of […]

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Vogt Power to Supply HRSGs for Thailand Combined Cycle Plants

Heat Recovery Technology for Environmental Efficiency  Vogt Power International Inc. (Vogt), located in Louisville, KY, a subsidiary of Babcock Power Inc., based in Danvers, MA, has received a Limited Notice to Proceed from Black & Veatch (Thailand) Ltd. to supply Heat Recovery Steam Generators (HRSGs) and associated equipment for two Combined Cycle Power Plants, Electric […]

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Alstom re-jigs Thai team to boost share

French company shifting focus to BRIC countries from US, Europe France-based Alstom has adjusted its management team in Thailand as part of an aggressive bid to increase its local market share from the current level of 15 per cent. Chairman and chief executive officer Patrick Kron said yesterday in Bangkok that Alstom had decided to […]

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Salcon wins construction jobs in Thailand

Salcon Bhd’s wholly-owned subsidiary, Salcon Engineering Bhd, through its joint venture company Hydrotek-Salcon Consortium, has been awarded construction works worth RM21.991 million in Thailand. The award is from the Metropolitan Waterworks Authority (MWA) for the construction of reservoirs for Phet Kasem and Rat Burana distribution pumping stations and related works in Bangkok. “The Eighth Bangkok […]

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Phuket Airport Plans to Expand to Cope with Record Traffic

Temporary expansion at Phuket International Airport is to begin from October to cope with record numbers of passengers expected on Phuket in 2012 and beyond. With Phuket likely to reach eight million arrivals and departures this year, based on projections by Phuketwan, airport managers Airports of Thailand now have to stretch the capacity of the […]

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