Hotels in Hat Yai, Pattaya lead the pack Malaysia-based Tune Hotels is marching ahead with its plan to operate 20 budget hotels in Thailand by 2015 despite the flood crisis. The first hotel will open in Hat Yai next month with 148 rooms, followed by Pattaya in February with 192 rooms. Two more hotels are […]
Continue ReadingTHE Department of Electric Power under the Ministry of Electric Power 2 and Thailand’s Gunkul Engineering Public Co signed a memorandum of understanding for the development of a 1000-megawatt (MW) wind power project on November 2. The signing ceremony was attended by the deputy ministers of the Ministry of Electric Power No 1 and 2, […]
Continue ReadingTechnip was awarded by Michelin Siam Co., Ltd. a lump sum turnkey engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) contract for a new elastomer composite plant to be built in Southern Region Industrial Estate, Songkhla Province, Thailand. The contract is in line with Technip’s strategy to expand its business base, including its Onshore segment. It covers preliminary […]
Continue ReadingThailand’s Ratchaburi Electricity Generating Holding Pcl said it planned to spend 12 billion baht ($390 million) next year on continuing investments and new ventures, including power plants in Myanmar’s Dawei project. The country’s largest private power producer signed an agreement with Italian-Thai Development Pcl to build coal-fired power plants with a combined capacity of 4,000 […]
Continue ReadingThailand’s Ratchaburi Electricity Generating Holding Pcl said it planned to spend 12 billion baht ($390 million) next year on continuing investments and new ventures, including power plants in Myanmar’s Dawei project. The country’s largest private power producer signed an agreement with Italian-Thai Development Pcl to build coal-fired power plants with a combined capacity of 4,000 […]
Continue ReadingTHE ENERGY COMPLEX (EnCo), Ministry of Energy, Thailand, is this year’s winner in the New & Existing Building Category in the Asean Energy Awards. http://www.skyscrapercity.com Energy Complex, or EnCo, of Thailand is the winner of this year’s prestigious Asean Energy Awards in the New & Existing Building Category. The Asean Energy Awards is a regional […]
Continue ReadingThailand’s Princess Maha Chakri Sirindhorn presided over the inauguration of the third Thai-Lao Friendship Bridge, connecting the northeastern Thai province of Nakhon Phanom with Khammuan province in the central Lao Peoples Democratic Republic. The opening ceremony took place on Nov 11 at 11.11am at the Thai-Lao border, co-chaired by Bounnhang Vorachith, vice president of the […]
Continue ReadingCaterpillar Inc. continues to grow its global production capacity to take advantage of increasing demand for heavy construction equipment in developing nations across the globe. The company plans to build a brand new wheel loader factory along the east coast of China that will develop a new model of wheel loader for use in China […]
Continue ReadingVIASPACE and Seema Energy Sign MOU and Test Plot Agreement VIASPACE Inc., a clean energy company growing Giant King(TM) Grass as a dedicated energy crop, and its subsidiary VIASPACE Green Energy Inc., today announced that the Company has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with Seema Energy Co., Ltd, a renewable energy development company based […]
Continue ReadingThe Asian Development Bank (ADB) has approved a US$ 170 million loan to support the construction of a 1600 MW natural gas-fired power plant in Thailand. The new plant will be built in Nong Saeng district north of Bangkok under a public private partnership arrangement, and is the first independent power producer project to reach […]
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