THE LAWYERS COUNCIL of Thailand has dispatched a team to follow up on the progress of the Electricity Generating Authority of Thailand (Egat) in responding to Supreme Court-ordered measures at its controversial lignite-fuelled power plant in Lampang’s Mae Mo district. The team initially found that Egat had paid compensation to 131 affected villagers and established […]
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A general view of Chiang Mai airport in a foggy day. (Bangkok Post file photo) Transport authorities are discussing the expansion of Chiang Mai airport with a new terminal and more aircraft parking bays, as part of solutions to ease traffic congestion and overcrowding. Whether the new facilities will be built depends on a new […]
Continue ReadingNEW BUILDINGS will soon be required to introduce new technology and equipment to reduce energy consumption by 30 per cent from the 2010 base if they are to win construction licences. The list of products with the “Eco” label will be expanded to cover new devices like tablets and mobile phones, to ensure that only […]
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Thailand-based wind power plant operator Inter Far East Wind International (IWIND), a subsidiary of Inter Far East Engineering PCL (IFEC), has acquired all the ordinary shares in SGC Wind Energy Company for 330 million baht (approx. $10 million). SGC has a registered and paid-up capital of 250 million shares and IWIND has acquired 2,499,991 shares […]
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Cambodia’s 14 clusters of casinos in towns just over its borders with Thailand and Vietnam function as Macau does for China, offering a nearby, culturally familiar setting for gamblers from the other side of the border to do what they can’t do back home. The scale is just a little bit different. Macau has massive […]
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Cabinet ministers have given the green light to the upgrade of the Tak-Mae Sot highway into four lanes under a 1.39-billion-baht project aimed at expediting border-trade transport. The construction is scheduled to take up to 840 days, Maj Sansern Kaewkamnerd, the Prime Minister’s Office spokesman, said today. The project, the second phase of the Highway […]
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WUXI, China, May 29, 2015 /PRNewswire/ — Suntech has announced today that it will supply approximately 63 megawatts (MW) of solar panels to 8 separate Gunkul Engineering projects being constructed across Thailand. The projects are expected to be grid connected and operational by the end of 2015. “Suntech has shipped more than 260MW of panels […]
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Dutch company AkzoNobel is planning to spend over €30m to build a new manufacturing facility in Thailand in order to support regional growth of its Performance Coatings business. Being supported by the Thailand Board of Investment, the project includes construction of a 120,000m² site within the Hemaraj Eastern Seaboard Industrial Estate in Chonburi. The new […]
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The Thai government has approved Harbour A Development Project after a cabinet meeting. Photo: PA The Thai government has approved the Harbour A Development Project at the gateway port of Laem Chabang, the government website reported after a cabinet meeting. This allows the Port Authority of Thailand (PAT) to construct an L-shaped harbour measuring 30 […]
Continue ReadingMemorandum of Understanding between Marubeni & Ministry of Electric Power of the Republic of the Union of Myanmar Thursday, May 28, 2015 Marubeni Corporation (“Marubeni”) has agreed with the Ministry of Electric Power of the Republic of the Union of Myanmar (“MOEP”) to conduct a feasibility study for a gas-fired power generation project in Yangon […]
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