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A garage owner digging a deep well in a fruitless search for water has instead struck gas on his land in Tak’s Mae Sot district, near the Myanmar border. Sanya Sanyasiri, 41, was shocked when steam began erupting from the 70 metre-deep hole, along with a smell reminiscent of gas. Mr Sanya, owner of Sanyasiri […]
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Cabinet ministers have given the green light to the upgrade of the Tak-Mae Sot highway into four lanes under a 1.39-billion-baht project aimed at expediting border-trade transport. The construction is scheduled to take up to 840 days, Maj Sansern Kaewkamnerd, the Prime Minister’s Office spokesman, said today. The project, the second phase of the Highway […]
Continue ReadingMemorandum of Understanding between Marubeni & Ministry of Electric Power of the Republic of the Union of Myanmar Thursday, May 28, 2015 Marubeni Corporation (“Marubeni”) has agreed with the Ministry of Electric Power of the Republic of the Union of Myanmar (“MOEP”) to conduct a feasibility study for a gas-fired power generation project in Yangon […]
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“Cheap” energy fails to take into account the permanent environmental devastation, the social breakdown and the long-term repercussions. (File photo) The National Energy Policy Council last week approved Thailand’s new Power Development Plan (PDP 2015), which lays out Thailand’s energy and investment plans for the next 21 years. The plan aims to double Thailand’s installed energy […]
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BANGKOK, 8 May 2015 – The Cabinet yesterday signed two memorandums of understanding (MOU) on the supply of natural gas and energy purchasing deal with Myanmar over the course of 10 years. The Cabinet has green-lighted the Energy Ministry to sign 2 MOUs with Myanmar. The first MOU is for the latter to supply Thailand […]
Continue ReadingBANGKOK: — The Cabinet yesterday approved the 1-metre-gauge dual-track rail route from Chira junction in Nakhon Ratchasima to Khon Kaen, which is part of the Transport Ministry’s infrastructure development scheme that kicks off this year. “The Cabinet has approved the construction of the Chira-Khon Kaen rail route and instructed the ministry to commence with the […]
Continue ReadingBANGKOK, April 9 (Reuters) – Construction firm Toyo-Thai Corp PCL has signed a memorandum with Myanmar’s government worth a total $2.8 billion to build and operate a 1,280 megawatt power plant, the Thai company said on Thursday. The construction contract for the coal-fired plant, at Ye Township, Mon state, is worth an estimated $2.3 billion, […]
Continue ReadingA new deep sea port at the heart of a massive construction project on the Myanmar coast could revitalise trade in Southeast Asia, but at a high cost Bangkok – Ma Nu May and her husband started a small cashew nut farm near the coastal town of Dawei in southern Myanmar seven years ago, but […]
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The government plans to revive a Western Seaboard project to link Myanmar’s Dawei economic zone to a new industrial zone in Prachuap Khiri Khan province. Sahaviriya’s steel plant in Prachuap Khiri Khan’s Bang Saphan district. The government wants to develop the Western Seaboard into a new industrial zone and link it to the Dawei project in Myanmar. […]
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YANGON, 19 March 2015: Local company Tala Mon is planning to invest more than USD3 million over the next two years to renovate a historic Death Railway site in Mon State. Irrawaddy, an online news service, reported that the Mon State government gave Tala Mon permission to restore and construct new tourist facilities at the […]
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