Myanmar News
The Lam Luk Ka-Pathum Thani motorway, linking Bangkok’s Outer Ring Road Route 9 to the East, is just the beginning of a new system of motorways the government announced Tuesday for the Central region around Bangkok. (Photo by Surapol Promsaka Na Sakolnakorn) Three motorways linking Ayutthaya and Nakhon Ratchasima, Nonthaburi and Kanchanaburi, and Pattaya and […]
Continue ReadingThailand, China and Myanmar are expected to sign a memorandum of understanding (MoU) for the development of the 7,000-megawatt Mong Ton hydropower-plant project on the upper Salween River this year, after Myanmar’s government cancelled its Tasang hydropower project. Speaking yesterday on behalf of the three countries, Thai Energy Minister Narongchai Akrasanee said Electricity Generation Authority […]
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Bridge construction site in Dawei (photo by Thiti Wannamontha) Italian-Thai Development Plc (ITD) through its subsidiary Dawei Development Co (DDC) will sign a contract with the Myanmar government by July 24 to develop and run the Dawei economic development zone for at least 50 years. DDC managing director Somchet Thinapong said on Thursday that the […]
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Although a bit trite with repetition, no saying better encapsulates the major obstacle facing Laos than “geography is destiny”. The only landlocked country in Southeast Asia, Laos is wedged between the vast rivers and expansive mountain ranges that demarcate its natural borders with China, Vietnam, Cambodia, Myanmar and Thailand. Because of its lack of access […]
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Hua Lamphong railway station is preparing to celebrate its 100th anniversary next year as the hub of a rail system that has been showing its age. A new era of faster rail travel is eagerly awaited but could be a few more years away. (Photo by Chanat Katanyu) Compulsory detailed surveys will delay construction of […]
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Myanmar firefighters and rescue worker searching for the victims after the scaffolding collapse at the Pullman Hotel construction project in Mandalay, Myanmar June 20. (EPA photo) Two construction workers were killed and dozens injured when part of a luxury hotel being built in Myanmar’s second city of Mandalay collapsed, sparking a desperate 30-hour bid to […]
Continue ReadingA collaboration to develop the Dawei megaproject is due to start on time, with the two leading Thai construction companies and the Myanmar government set to sign a memorandum of understanding (MoU) next month. The Myanmar government and Thai companies Rojana Industrial Park Plc and SET-listed Italian-Thai Development Plc (ITD) are scheduled to sign the […]
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A Thai construction company began working on a second Maesot-Myawaddy Friendship Bridge project on the Thai side of the border in early June. Local residents on the Thai side of the Moei River that separates Burma from Thailand said large earth moving machinery began leveling the ground while surveyors measured land and concrete workers started […]
Continue ReadingTHAILAND’S power utility Egat has been accused of exacerbating conflict in Myanmar’s Shan state by backing a controversial dam on the Salween. More than a dozen Shan community groups called on the Electricity Generating Authority of Thailand and China’s Three Gorges Corporation yesterday to pull out of the huge Mong Ton Dam, saying the US$8-billion […]
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2015 is a big year for the climate change agenda. In December, negotiators will descend upon Paris to sign a new universal and legally binding treaty to tackle the issue. Yet as oil apologists and environmental campaigners dispute the impact of greenhouse gas emissions, business people are seizing the advantage of government subsidies to profit […]
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