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A small island state in Southeast Asia has come out tops in a listing of countries that boast of the richest expatriates. In an annual survey released by HSBC on Monday — which was conducted across 100 countries and involved more than 5,000 expatriates — Singapore emerged as the most favored expat destination to make […]
Continue ReadingGlenn Frazier, the managing director of SNC-Lavalin (Thailand), said the company re-entered Thailand four years ago to provide full service to thermal power plants in the region. He said power business demand in Asia has risen rapidly on the back of economic growth in the region. The thermal sector includes power plants fuelled by natural […]
Continue ReadingThailand will conduct a study on the construction of a nuclear power plant, the energy minister said. Speaking after a seminar on “No Shortage of Thai Energy: Thai Logistics in Progress”, Arak Chonlatanon said the ministry was preparing the country’s new power production capacity development plan (PDP 2012) to ensure energy sufficiency. Thailand has utilised about […]
Continue ReadingBangkok’s senior sex tourist population is facing its greatest crisis in decades as the demolition of the nightlife zone known as Washington Square has left them with nowhere to go. Dozens, and sometimes up to a hundred portly Western men with bad skin, aged 55-80, have been reported wandering around the Sukhumvit Soi 22 area […]
Continue ReadingConstruction cost consultancy firm will become part of Davis Langdon, an AECOM company, and expand AECOM’s footprint in Asia AECOM Technology Corporation (NYSE: ACM), a leading provider of professional technical and management support services for public and private clients in more than 130 countries around the world, announced today that KPK, a construction cost, contract […]
Continue ReadingThe 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 […]
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