Suggestions that prolonged flooding in Bangkok late last year was the main cause of the recent partial collapse of a building under construction was ruled out yesterday by the secretary general of the Engineering Institute of Thailand (EIT). “If the flooding was the major reason, other nearby buildings would not stand firm like this. From […]
Continue ReadingConstruction of a 750 km standard gauge line from Bangkok to Chiang Mai is the largest single project included in a 400bn baht programme of infrastructure investment announced by the government on January 10. Comprising 128 different work packages for completion by 2016, the programme includes a range of other public transport, road and flood […]
Continue ReadingConstruction of a 750 km standard gauge line from Bangkok to Chiang Mai is the largest single project included in a 400bn baht programme of infrastructure investment announced by the government on January 10. Comprising 128 different work packages for completion by 2016, the programme includes a range of other public transport, road and flood […]
Continue ReadingSoi Dog’s newly planned Dog Hospital will be one of the largest and most modern dog hospitals in Thailand! Our current Hopsital is tiny and badly injured and sick dogs have to be kept in small cages, often stacked on top of each other. As soon as these dogs are out of danger they have […]
Continue ReadingSoi Dog’s newly planned Dog Hospital will be one of the largest and most modern dog hospitals in Thailand! Our current Hopsital is tiny and badly injured and sick dogs have to be kept in small cages, often stacked on top of each other. As soon as these dogs are out of danger they have […]
Continue ReadingThailand’s PTT is looking at expediting the expansion of its LNG receiving terminal by 1-2 years to cope with the country’s faster-than-expected growth in natural gas demand. The Thai state-controlled energy concern sees the need to add a second 5 million mt/year unit to its Rayong facility, about 220 km southeast of Bangkok, earlier than […]
Continue ReadingTransport Minister ACM Sukumpol Suwanatat backs calls for an electric train assembly facility to supply trains for the country’s mass-transit rail projects. Prapas Chongsanguan, former governor of the Mass Transit Authority of Thailand (MRTA), floated the plan. ACM Sukumpol said if a local assembly facility is to be set up it must have large orders […]
Continue ReadingTransport Minister ACM Sukumpol Suwanatat backs calls for an electric train assembly facility to supply trains for the country’s mass-transit rail projects. Prapas Chongsanguan, former governor of the Mass Transit Authority of Thailand (MRTA), floated the plan. ACM Sukumpol said if a local assembly facility is to be set up it must have large orders […]
Continue ReadingA new location may have to be found for the new Parliament complex, which was going to be constructed at a site in Bangkok’s Kiak Kai area, Deputy House Speaker Charoen Chankomol said yesterday. “The relocation proposal will be raised with House Speaker Somsak Kiartsuranont on Monday,” he said in his capacity as committee chairman […]
Continue ReadingA UK university is to open a campus in Bangkok – in what is claimed as the first such UK branch university to be established in Thailand. The University of Central Lancashire has signed a deal with a Thai-based entrepreneur to open a university campus in Bangkok in 2014. Degrees will be taught in English […]
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