Country Group Development (CGD) PCL recently held a foundation stone laying ceremony for the construction of its mixed-use property, Landmark Waterfront, at its site located on Charoenkrung Road in the Sathorn district of Bangkok. The merit making and stone laying ceremony succeeded the THB 11.6 billion financial framework agreement made with China’s EXIM Bank, funding […]
Continue ReadingBANGKOK, July 2, 2014 /PRNewswire/ — The owners of a property development that aims to be an iconic symbol of national pride for Thailand and represents the largest investment ever made by the private sector in a property endeavour in the country, today, presented the first details of the mega-development’s key components and announced that […]
Continue ReadingKoh Samui, Thailand – Luxury Living, residential property developers of Aqua Samui, Aqua Residence and Oceana Residence on Koh Samui, Thailand, is reaping the benefits of their logical, straight-forward approach to developing luxury homes for foreigners on Thailand’s 2nd largest island. In their first 17 months of business Luxury Living sold 42 Aqua units with […]
Continue ReadingFrance-based Areva and its partner Ensys have completed construction of a biomass power plant located in the Supanburi Province, in the North-West of Thailand. The 9.9MW plant was delivered to U-Thong Bio Power, which is already operating a 10MW biomass power plant. The plant, which is fuelled by rice husk and bagasse, will generate enough […]
Continue Reading
BANGKOK, 20 June 2014: Ministry of Tourism and Sports reported, earlier this week, 5,969,913 Thais travelled overseas in 2013 representing an increase of 4.34% over 5,721,485 trips in 2012. Ministry data showed that Malaysia continued to be the most popular destination driven by short overland trips from southern provinces to destinations in northern Malaysia mainly […]
Continue ReadingGE Advanced Water Treatment Technology Selected for Thailand Power Plant IRPC Public Company Limited’s New Combined Heat and Power Plant to Reduce Use of Chemicals by 99 Percent — Facility to Use a Unique Mix of GE Ultrafiltration, Reverse Osmosis and Electrodeionization Technologies to Treat Water for Boilers TREVOSE, Pa., June 10, 2014 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) […]
Continue ReadingThe planned high-cost high-speed trains will most certainly be shelved by the National Council for Peace and Order, which is due to meet this week to discuss the sources to fund the new infrastructure development projects. It is quite clear now the four high-speed train development projects, costing more than 700 billion baht, will be put […]
Continue Reading
Singapore: SGX Catalist-listed ES Group’s wholly-owned subsidiary, ES Offshore Engineering was awarded repeat orders for jack-up drilling rig blocks worth approximately S$17m from a major shipyard in Singapore. ES Group, which builds, converts and repairs tugs, barges, rigs, offshore support vessels, oil tankers and cargo ships, was previously awarded an approximately S$15m order from the […]
Continue Reading
After 2 years of anticipation, construction of the Cartoon Network Amazone waterpark is on schedule for completion and will open on 31st July this year, just in time for the summer season. When the project was announced at the beginning of 2012, Sunny Saha, senior vice president and managing director of Turner Broadcasting System (Asia […]
Continue ReadingThe construction of new roads to link the northern parts of Laos and Thailand through Xayaboury province has commenced, to facilitate trading, logistics and tourism between the two countries. Buakham Vannaly, the project manager, told Vientiane Times that the road link would particularly benefit the transportation of crops to Thailand and the flow of tourists […]
Continue Reading