Thailand’s largest energy firm, PTT Pcl, said on Tuesday it planned to invest US$ 2-3 billion in a Burmese oil refinery, coal mines and a power plant, as part of its drive to expand in Southeast Asia. Nattachat Charuchinda, the chief operating officer for PTT’s petroleum business, told reporters in Bangkok the company planned to set […]
Continue ReadingLeading Thai companies are ready to outlay more than Bt28.5 billion setting up businesses in Myanmar following a meeting with President Thein Sein in Bangkok yesterday, amid expectations that a Charoen Pokphand Group (CP), Thailand’s biggest agro-industrial conglomerate, is set to invest US$550 million or Bt16.53 billion in Myanmar within the next three years. CP […]
Continue ReadingSingaporean rescuers gather outside the Downtown Line (DTL) Bugis Station subway construction site in Singapore on July 18, 2012. Two workers are still missing after the temporary scaffolding used for the construction of the new subway link roof slab gave way. It was the latest incident to hit Singapore’s metro train system, which has been […]
Continue ReadingPrime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra yesterday ordered agencies to expedite measures to alleviate the congestion at Suvarnabhumi Airport. After inspecting the problem-plagued Bangkok airport, Yingluck said a committee would be formed to follow up on immediate and long-range plans closely to ease the crowding, shorten delays and also to expand aircraft and passenger capacity. Thailand should […]
Continue ReadingPrime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra yesterday ordered agencies to expedite measures to alleviate the congestion at Suvarnabhumi Airport. After inspecting the problem-plagued Bangkok airport, Yingluck said a committee would be formed to follow up on immediate and long-range plans closely to ease the crowding, shorten delays and also to expand aircraft and passenger capacity. Thailand should […]
Continue ReadingRICS ASEAN Conference in Bangkok attracted over 200 participants The recent RICS’ ASEAN Conference which wrapped up last week at the Sheraton Grande Sukhumvit Hotel in Bangkok attracted over 200 participants from Thailand and across Asia, consisting of many top executives from the government, property, surveying, financial and engineering fields. Renowned speakers from academic, private and public […]
Continue ReadingGMS members and the Asian Development Bank (ADB) will initiate infrastructure development projects worth 552 billion baht over the next decade. Among the priorities for ADB are an improvement in the 198-kilometre road linking Gorgarek, Thaton and Myawaddy in Myanmar to Tak’s Mae Sot district, which is part of the East-West Corridor linking Myanmar, Thailand, […]
Continue ReadingThe Labor Ministry is set to speedily tackle the problem of labor shortage in the construction sector. Labor Minister Phadermchai Sasomsub said on Wednesday that the construction industry is now experiencing the shortage of labor because of last year’s flood crisis. Mr. Phadermchai is urging business operators, who are in need of workers, to contact the […]
Continue ReadingSubstandard construction, inadequate design, cause delays, frustrate millions Bangkok’s Suvarnabhumi International Airport, which opened only six years ago on what amounted to a swamp, is approaching a crisis stage with overcrowding and increasingly impaired runways, travelers and officials say. Designed by Helmut Jahn of Murphy/Jahn Architects of Chicago, the airport was in trouble the day […]
Continue ReadingSubstandard construction, inadequate design, cause delays, frustrate millions Bangkok’s Suvarnabhumi International Airport, which opened only six years ago on what amounted to a swamp, is approaching a crisis stage with overcrowding and increasingly impaired runways, travelers and officials say. Designed by Helmut Jahn of Murphy/Jahn Architects of Chicago, the airport was in trouble the day […]
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