New Phuket Property Review available

The inaugural Phuket Property Review by the island’s leading newspaper The Phuket Gazette has been released. Providing comprehensive information on real estate including a breakdown on what’s happened in the west, east, north, south and inland sectors, it’s a must read. Other features include design, finance and commentary by some of Phuket’s leading agencies. To […]

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Istana Phuket in Thailand Wins Best Asian Development and Architecture Award

Istana Phuket received top honours for all of Asia as Best Development (Multiple Units) Asia Pacific and Best Architecture Multiple Residence Asia Pacific. The project also won three Thailand-wide awards for Best Architecture Multiple Residence Thailand, Best Development Marketing Thailand, and Best Development (Multiple Units) Thailand. Prism Estates, developer of the Istana Phuket residential estate […]

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Bangkok's MRTA seeks advisor for Green Line project

The Mass Rapid Transit Authority of Thailand is selling bid document to select the Green Line electric train project advisor during now until June 22. It expects the contract for the 12.6-km elevated Bearing-Samut Prakan project to be signed within October, said acting Governor Ronachit Yaemsaart. He said that the advisor will oversee the design […]

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Bangkok’s MRTA seeks advisor for Green Line project

The Mass Rapid Transit Authority of Thailand is selling bid document to select the Green Line electric train project advisor during now until June 22. It expects the contract for the 12.6-km elevated Bearing-Samut Prakan project to be signed within October, said acting Governor Ronachit Yaemsaart. He said that the advisor will oversee the design […]

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CBRE Thailand wins 4 Property Awards

As five-star award winners at country level, CBRE Thailand was nominated at the regional level and was subsequently awarded “Best Residential Real Estate Agency Website Asia Pacific” and “Best Property Consultancy Website Asia Pacific”. CBRE Thailand was named the winner for four categories at the country level including the top category five-star winners for “Best […]

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Official: Thailand’s Gas to run out in 18 years

Thailand must diversify the fuel it uses to generate electricity, or else domestic gas resources could dry up in about two decades, warns deputy energy permanent secretary Kurujit Nakornthap. “If the country continues pumping gas from the Gulf of Thailand at the present rate of 3,747 million standard cubic feet per day (mmscfd) or 1.37 […]

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Corruption in construction industry extremely high

Corruption situation in the construction industry at present is getting severer with as high as one trillion baht lost to fraud each year. Former Engineering Institute of Thailand President Tortrakul Yomnak admitted that corruption exists in construction society where bribery is normal in auctions for construction projects while those refusing to pay bribes have no […]

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New Bridge Linking Phuket to Mainland Thailand Opens This Week

The Srisoonthorn Bridge, which connects Phuket to the Thai mainland, will open this week as planned. Approved in 2009, at a cost of US$12.5 million, the 655 metre bridge was dubbed ‘Sarasin Bridge 2’ during construction. The Phuket Provincial Highways Office has announced that the new bridge linking Phuket to the Thai mainland will open […]

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Japan firm develops 'sun-chasing' solar panels

A new Japanese solar power device can generate twice the electricity of current models thanks to moving mirrors that follow the sun throughout the day, according to its developers. Smart Solar International, a Tokyo start-up that also has an office in California, will start producing the system in Japan in August, hoping it will be […]

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