New Energy Minister Pongsak Raktapongpaisal vows to move ahead with plans to construct the southern landbridge or oil pipeline linkage between the Andaman Sea and the Gulf of Thailand. At his first day in office as energy minister, the close aide of former prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra said yesterday the project will help enable the […]
Continue ReadingNew Energy Minister Pongsak Raktapongpaisal vows to move ahead with plans to construct the southern landbridge or oil pipeline linkage between the Andaman Sea and the Gulf of Thailand. At his first day in office as energy minister, the close aide of former prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra said yesterday the project will help enable the […]
Continue ReadingA high-speed train project linking southern China, Laos and Thailand could start in 2015 in time for the launch of the Asean Economic Community. Chamaiporn Chuecharoen, the commercial counsellor for Thailand in Kunming, China, said the project envisions a train capable of speeds of 200 kilometres per hour running from Yunnan province to Laos and […]
Continue ReadingCentara to open new five-star property in Pattaya Centara Hotels & Resorts has revealed plans to open its fourth property in Pattaya, Thailand in March 2013. The five-star Centara Grand Resort & Spa Pattaya, located at Phratamnak Hill on the east side of the city, will be just minutes from the beach. The newly built nine-storey hotel will […]
Continue ReadingNissan Motor Co. said Friday it will spend about $358 million to construct a second auto assembly plant in Thailand as it ramps up production overseas, away from its costly domestic factories. The new plant in Samut Prakan Province will be built close to Nissan’s factory near Bangkok, and will eventually employ about 6,000 workers. […]
Continue ReadingAndritz receives CH. Karnchang order for electromechanical equipment for Xayaburi dam Steps are proceeding for the controversial $3.8 billion Xayaburi dam in Laos despite assurances that the hydropower project was on hold pending further studies into possible environmental effects on the Mekong River. Austrian technology company Andritz said Thai construction company CH. Karnchang had placed an […]
Continue ReadingFive South Korean companies have recently launched a 500-megawatt (mw) gas-fired combined cycle power plant project in Thakayta township, Myanmar’s Yangon, aimed at fulfilling its power demand in summer of 2014 and supplying electricity to the Thilawa special economic zone (SEZ). The five South Korean companies are Busan Korea Biotechnology Co, Korea Western Power Co, […]
Continue ReadingFive South Korean companies have recently launched a 500-megawatt (mw) gas-fired combined cycle power plant project in Thakayta township, Myanmar’s Yangon, aimed at fulfilling its power demand in summer of 2014 and supplying electricity to the Thilawa special economic zone (SEZ). The five South Korean companies are Busan Korea Biotechnology Co, Korea Western Power Co, […]
Continue ReadingConsumers will have to pay twice as much for electricity by 2017 if power generation still relies on natural gas, and the options of nuclear or coal are not included in the National Energy Development Plan. To rectify this, the Electricity Generating Authority of Thailand (Egat) is revising its power development plan and will propose it […]
Continue ReadingPailin Chuchottaworn, the president and chief executive of Thailand’s energy flagship, said PTT has unused land in the industrial estate that it would like to use for environmentally and socially friendly purposes. “Projects undertaken in this zone will involve small and medium-sized enterprises making bioplastics from sugar cane and which are biodegradable,” he said. Mr […]
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