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If some Bangkok hotels like to display ostentatious luxury, the Shangri-La hotel in Bangkok has systematically adopted the contrary approach. Since its opening, the hotel has built its reputation on its sense of discreet luxury. Over the last two years, Shangri-La Bangkok has embarked on one of its most extensive renovations, transforming completely all the […]
Continue ReadingHOTEL owner and operator Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide Inc is expanding rapidly in Thailand, despite the political uncertainties there. Starwood — which operates the Sheraton, Westin, W and Le Meridien chain — expects to have 7,221 rooms by the end of 2012. It now has 11 hotels with a total room inventory of 4,500 […]
Continue ReadingRolls-Royce expects to win contracts to supply generators to four or five SPP (small power producer) projects in Thailand over the next five years, at a combined value of US$100 million, or nearly Bt3 billion. “Thailand is now the most active market in Asean for sales of Rolls-Royce power-generation solutions,” said Mahendra Singh Chauhan, senior […]
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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 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 ReadingThe railroad is many things to people in Cambodia: playground, garbage dump, open-air toilet, livestock grazing ground, a dry path for traversing swampy terrain. What it has not been for many years is working transportation for either people or freight. In fact, train service was halted completely last year. That may change soon. Development specialists […]
Continue ReadingThe railroad is many things to people in Cambodia: playground, garbage dump, open-air toilet, livestock grazing ground, a dry path for traversing swampy terrain. What it has not been for many years is working transportation for either people or freight. In fact, train service was halted completely last year. That may change soon. Development specialists […]
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Cambodia provides ‘missing link’ in Iron Silk Road rail project By Andrew Buncombe, Asia Correspondent Cambodia‘s railway – for so long the victim of war, turmoil and the neglect that has beset the country – is poised to get moving again. Officials yesterday formally opened the first section of a new network that will stretch […]
Continue Reading Cambodia provides ‘missing link’ in Iron Silk Road rail project By Andrew Buncombe, Asia Correspondent Cambodia‘s railway – for so long the victim of war, turmoil and the neglect that has beset the country – is poised to get moving again. Officials yesterday formally opened the first section of a new network that will stretch […]
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