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Construction of a high-speed rail link between Yunnan province and neighboring Myanmar, part of a project to upgrade transport connections with Southeast Asian nations, will start in about two months, a top rail expert said. The line, from Kunming, capital of Yunnan province, to Yangon, Myanmar‘s largest city, will be 1,920 kilometers long, said Wang […]
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One of the world’s great rivers defines the geography of Southeast Asia. Rising frozen in the Tibetan highlands and running through China’s Yunnan Province, the Mekong defines the geography of Southeast Asia. It is both a lifeline and a frontier, linking and separating the countries of the region – Thailand, Myanmar, Laos, Cambodia and Vietnam […]
Continue ReadingChina, Myanmar and Thailand have agreed to study a 7,000-MW Myanmar hydropower project that would be Southeast Asia‘s largest by generation capacity, the Chinese government and wire services reported. The $10 billion project would be built on the Salween River in Myanmar over 15 years, China‘s State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission said in a […]
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The largest civil construction company in Thailand, Italian-Thai Development, has signed a contract worth US$8 billion for an infrastructure project in Tavoy in Burma’s Tenasserim Division, the Bangkok Post reports. The Tavoy (Dawei) development project on Burma’s east coast to be built would include a deep-sea port with shipbuilding and maintenance facilities, a petrochemical industrial […]
Continue ReadingBy Yuthana Praiwan, Bangkok Post, Thailand Italian-Thai Development Plc, Thailand‘s largest construction company, will seek strategic partners to co-develop its 75-year landlease development project worth US$58 billion in Dawei, Burma. Chairman Premchai Karnasuta said more than 20 investors have been approached to become the project’s strategic partners and they would co-invest in the first phase […]
Continue ReadingAbout one-third of the leading business investors in the neighbouring Lao People’s Democratic Republic (Lao PDR) are interested in buying properties in Thailand, according to a survey by Thailand’s Agency for Real Estate Affairs (AREA). AREA president Sopon Pornchokchai said the survey was conducted among 150 leading Lao businessmen who attended a seminar on property […]
Continue ReadingAirport Railway Link’s new route, or phase 2, is under construction even though its date of completion has yet to be finalized. The new route is expected to help promote Thailand as an aviation hub in the Southeast Asian Region. On August 23, 2010, Thailand’s long-awaited project has finally opened its door to the public. […]
Continue ReadingA state news agency says construction will start this month on a railway from southern China to Laos, further connecting the country with its Southeast Asian neighbours. The official Xinhua News Agency reported Friday that the 530-kilometre railway will connect Xishuangbanna city in the southern province of Yunnan to Vientiane, the capital of Laos. Work […]
Continue ReadingNovotel Bangkok Impact will be located within one of Asia’s largest dedicated Event, Convention and Exhibition Centres Accor, the largest international hotel operator in Thailand, announced today the signing of Novotel Bangkok Impact. Being developed by IMPACT Exhibition Management, Novotel Bangkok Impact will open in early 2011. This newly built hotel with 380 guest rooms […]
Continue ReadingEnvironmental and conservation networks in six countries have vowed to fight a big dam planned across the Mekong River at Sayabouri in Laos. “We have been gathering signatures of people who are against this dam,” Thailand’s Chiang Khong Conservation Group leader Niwat Roykaew said at an international meeting in Mexico. “We will fight to the […]
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