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The Xayaburi controversy has spread to Finland. Earlier this month, Finnish engineering company Pöyry Group issued a public statement denying any wrong-doing in its role in the Xayaburi Hydropower Project in Laos. The statement follows a June 2012 complaint to the Finnish government filed by 15 civil society groups, including International Rivers, alleging that Pöyry […]
Continue ReadingThe construction, according to Bung Kan Governor Pornsak Jearanai, should begin within the next three years. “The cabinet has approved the project and the government of both countries have agreed in principle to have the fifth bridge built,” he said. The new bridge will be located about 12km east of downtown and will link Bung […]
Continue ReadingConstruction workers on Tuesday laid the last piece of a railway that will link Southwest China’s Yunnan province with the Association of Southeast Asian Nations countries. The Yuxi-Mengzi Railway has a total length of 141 km with a designed maximum speed of 120 km per hour. It passes through 35 tunnels and crosses 61 bridges, […]
Continue ReadingArchetype Group, a leading multi-disciplinary construction consultancy in Asia, the Middle East and Europe, will celebrate its 10th Anniversary in September. Founded in Vietnam in 2002 by French architects and engineers, Archetype soon expanded to Cambodia, Laos, Thailand, India and France. In the past year, Archetype has continued its solid growth and opened offices in […]
Continue ReadingKey oil and gas investors from across Asia will gather in Singapore this September to grow their portfolios during the 2nd Oil & Gas Investor Summit Asia. With more than half the world’s population residing in Asia, demand for power surpasses what the rest of the world requires to support its robust economy. Asia is […]
Continue ReadingGMS members and the Asian Development Bank (ADB) will initiate infrastructure development projects worth 552 billion baht over the next decade. Among the priorities for ADB are an improvement in the 198-kilometre road linking Gorgarek, Thaton and Myawaddy in Myanmar to Tak’s Mae Sot district, which is part of the East-West Corridor linking Myanmar, Thailand, […]
Continue ReadingThe Labor Ministry is set to speedily tackle the problem of labor shortage in the construction sector. Labor Minister Phadermchai Sasomsub said on Wednesday that the construction industry is now experiencing the shortage of labor because of last year’s flood crisis. Mr. Phadermchai is urging business operators, who are in need of workers, to contact the […]
Continue ReadingThe construction sector is pressing the government to allow import of foreign labour from a broader selection of countries to offset the shortage of 100,000 workers in the industry, said Chakporn Oonjitt, executive director of the Construction Institute of Thailand. As of April, the construction industry employed 2.68 million workers or 7% of the country’s […]
Continue ReadingMalcolm McVicar, vice-chancellor and president of the University of Central Lancashire (UCLan), has spent the past three to four years nurturing a project to open a full-scale campus in Thailand. “This will be the first British university here. We chose Thailand because the country is a good centre to reach other parts of the region and […]
Continue ReadingIn a dusty gorge deep in landlocked Laos, work is underway on a project that could change South-East Asia forever. Despite the protests of countries downstream and the warnings of scientists, a construction company has begun building the first dam across the lower reaches of one of the world’s great rivers. Officially the Lao government […]
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