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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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Royal Rattanakosin Hotel. As a city that receives 25 million visitors a year, Bangkok abounds with hotels. The majority of them are new, gleaming and built according to the latest design trend — imposing structures with a lot of glass. Hidden in the shadows of modernity, however, are hotels that seem to be trapped in time, voluntarily […]
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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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Deputies of Vietnam’s National Assembly vote for the new Long Thanh airport project during a parliament session in Hanoi June 25, 2015. Vietnam plans to build an ambitious new $16-billion airport as an eventual competitor to sprawling airline hubs in Bangkok and Singapore, on a site that is bigger than both combined. Photo: Reuters The […]
Continue Reading(MENAFN – Gulf Times) Countries of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Asean) are taking steps to extend leasehold periods granted for foreign individual or companies for land in a bid to boost investment. The Thai government recently approved 99-year leases for state land for industrial and commercial use to speed up the development of […]
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Cambodia’s 14 clusters of casinos in towns just over its borders with Thailand and Vietnam function as Macau does for China, offering a nearby, culturally familiar setting for gamblers from the other side of the border to do what they can’t do back home. The scale is just a little bit different. Macau has massive […]
Continue ReadingUnder a draft decree being proposed by the Ministry of Construction, foreigners can extend their property ownership in Vietnam after their 50-year ownership expires under the Housing Law, but not for more than an additional 50 years, Viet Nam News reported. An article of the draft says the provincial People’s Committee is authorised to extend […]
Continue ReadingStuttgart, Germany, Apr 15, 2015 – (ACN Newswire) – Mark Garvey, 48, has been appointed Chief Executive Officer (CEO) for the Asia-Pacific (APAC) region of the global engineering and construction company M+W Group. Effective 1 May 2015 he will take over this role from Helmut Kurzboeck, who will pursue new opportunities outside M+W Group. Garvey […]
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Thai Airways International & PTT Public Company Limited – Thailand’s two most ideal employers for 2015 For the second year in a row Thailand national flag carrier Thai Airways International (TAI) has been voted the country’s most “ideal” employer by business students, while those studying engineering have nominated State-owned oil and gas company PTT Public […]
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Harald Link and daughter Caroline find time for polo with British and Asian royalty. Credit: Peter Charlesworth for Forbes By Brian Mertens If all goes as planned, B. Grimm & Co. will, within a handful of years, become Thailand’s first industrial conglomerate headed by a young, blonde-haired Thai who is the polo-playing daughter of […]
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