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Toyo Engineering : Group Awarded Natural Gas Fired Cogeneration Power Plant Projects in Thailand

February 17, 2015February 25, 2015Peter Carlisle

Toyo Engineering Corporation (TOYO, President & CEO Katsumoto Ishibashi) and TEC Project Services Corporation (President Shigeyuki Imai) individually entered into the construction contracts and the supply contracts (Contracts) at the end of November 2014 for the twelve cogeneration power plant projects in Thailand, with the twelve special purpose companies jointly owned by Mitsui & Co., […]

Theme Park To Rise in Kamala

February 17, 2015March 7, 2015Peter Carlisle

A 62 rai land plot in Kamala is set to be turned into a theme park by the owning company of Phuket FantaSea. According to the Bangkok Post Safari World Plc. will commence construction of the development in the mid part of this year and expect to complete within eighteen months. The cost of the […]

China asked to build train factory

February 16, 2015February 25, 2015Peter Carlisle

Thailand persuades China to build an electric train part factory along with its standard railway development in Thailand. (Photo by Pattarapong Chatpattarasill) The Transport Ministry has asked China to set up a factory to make electric train parts in Thailand as part of a bilateral deal to build double-track routes from the Northeast to central […]

Difficulty in implementing high-speed train to resort provinces

February 15, 2015February 25, 2015Peter Carlisle

Difficulty in implementing high-speed train to resort provinces By Digital Content BANGKOK, Feb 14 — Experts said on Saturday that an idea floated recently by Prime Minister Gen Prayut Chan-o-cha to construct high-speed train service to popular resort provinces in an attempt to boost Thailand’s tourism industry would be difficult to implement. They say it […]

France Interested in Thailand’s Railway Projects

February 15, 2015February 25, 2015Peter Carlisle

France announced interest in a potential railway project in Thailand. The country is advised to seek further information when the next government is appointed. Thailand’s railway projects have interested a new potential investor: France. The country is interested in Thailand’s dual-track railway, states MR Pridiyathorn Devakula, the deputy prime minister. Meeting with a French ambassador, […]

Luxury house collapses on owner

February 14, 2015February 25, 2015Peter Carlisle

The front part of a luxury house under construction in Samut Sakhon has been reduced to rubble following a collapse on Saturday. (Photo via Facebook by Plodpai Samhok) Two people, including the owner of a luxury house under construction, were injured when its facade collapsed in Muang district of Samut Sakhon on Saturday afternoon. The […]

Timetric predicts top five construction growth markets

February 12, 2015August 28, 2020Peter Carlisle

Research by Timetric, which published the report ‘Global Construction Outlook 2020’, suggests that construction activity in emerging markets is expected to account for 52.8% of global output in 2015, rising to 56% by 2020. Within the emerging markets, growth is forecast to be particularly pronounced in the Middle East. Timetric has also put together a […]

Zhongli Talesun to begin solar cell and PV module production in Thailand

February 11, 2015February 25, 2015Peter Carlisle

Zhongli Talesun Solar (Changshu, China) has begun construction on a new factory for the manufacture of solar cells and PV modules in Thailand. The production plant is being built at the Thai-China Industrial Park in Rayong. The city lies some 200 kilometers from Bangkok, on the Gulf of Thailand. The annual production capacity of the new […]

Mae Moh golf course to be destroyed

February 11, 2015February 25, 2015Peter Carlisle

The Supreme Administrative Court has ordered the Electricity Generating Authority of Thailand (Egat) to turn its golf course at the Mae Moh lignite power plant in Lampang back into forest land and help villagers escape the air pollution at the plant. The court, however, did not order Egat to pay locals for the health problems they […]

Airport noise case rejected

February 11, 2015February 25, 2015Peter Carlisle

The Administrative Court on Tuesday dismissed an environmental and noise pollution case concerning Suvarnabhumi airport filed by residents against the Airports of Thailand Plc (AoT) and state agencies. The case was filed in 2010 by Narongsak Duangnil and 30 other residents living near Suvarnabhumi airport against the AoT and other state authorities, including the Department […]

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