“I was a workaholic,” Bob Coleman says. “Then one day I thought of all the places I hadn’t seen and I decided right there and then that something had to change.” At age 55, Bob started his international travels by taking vacations to popular destinations in Southeast Asia, including Penang, Malaysia and the Thai capital, […]
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It is great to see that improvements in solar panel technologies, and drop in commercial prices, have made more and more home owners opt for generating clean solar power. But, energy consumption varies greatly throughout the day (and night) and without some sort of an energy storage system, a lot of energy goes to waste […]
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SAMUT PRAKARN — Airports of Thailand announced yesterday that their green bicycle lane will reopen Saturday after seven months of renovation. After being closed since June 8, Suvarnabhumi bike lane, known as “Green Lane” will be officially reopened under the new name “Sky Lane”. The surface has been repainted in blue, and with a 500 […]
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Govt sending mixed signals on renewables, while strongly supporting coal. A company set up a “Solar Charger Station” display at an exhibition last February to show how solar energy could be harnessed to charge mobile phones. Two years ago, all Kordin Chaihae could do after sunset was to sit quietly by a candle in his […]
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The government approved a draft memorandum of understanding (MoU) yesterday to purchase electricity from the Nam Thuen 1 hydropower project in Laos. The draft MoU was endorsed by the National Energy Policy Committee chaired by Prime Minister Gen Prayut Chan-o-cha, which will see Thailand buy 520 megawatts of power in 2022 worth 2.67 baht per […]
Continue ReadingCambodia and Thailand have agreed to push ahead with completion of a railway line from Bangkok to Phnom Penh, with the two countries signing a memorandum of understanding during Prime Minister Hun Sen’s visit to the neighbouring country last week. The long-delayed project is part of the eastern corridor of the Singapore-Kunming Rail Link, a […]
Continue ReadingEditorial Opinion Justice always comes late. But when it came last Thursday — in one of the Klong Dan corruption cases — it was indeed welcome because, at least, it has proven that corruption does not pay. Three former officials of the Pollution Control Department (PCD), namely Pakit Kiravanich, the former director-general of the department, […]
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The United Nations this week released the 2015 rankings of most livable countries based on their status of basic human development achievements with Thailand falling to the 93rd from 89th in previous ranking. Thailand valued 0.726 for human development index or HDI in the report released by United Nations Development Programme(UNDP). Coming on top of […]
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TAMAKI KYOZUKA, Nikkei staff writer There’s nothing like a road trip to get a sense of a place. So to see for ourselves how Southeast Asia is preparing for the launch of the ASEAN Economic Community, we hit the highway and followed Toyota Motor’s ground supply chain across Indochina. Members of the Association of Southeast […]
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Sanitas, judge Christine Murray, and Pitupong, from left Pitupong Chaowakul just loves an architectural challenge. Pitupong Chaowakul just loves an architectural challenge. The man behind the building-design firm Supermachine happened to be on the same plane as Soopsip flying from London, where he’d claimed the Grand Prize in the Architectural Review Emerging Awards. (Soopsip had […]
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