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Energy Ministry to postpone nuclear plant construction

Thailand Ministry of Energy will ask the National Committee of Energy Policy and Planning Wednesday to postpone the country’s nuclear plant construction plan for another three years. Boonsong Kerdklang, acting director general of the Energy Policy and Planning Office (EPPO), said the upcoming meeting on April 27 may be the last for this administration if […]

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Exceptional number of hits on ‘Thailand Construction News’ website Construction Article

Are people trying to intentionally manoeuvre this News Article to be our ‘Most Read’ Article, or is there a genuine interest? On 9 February 2011, we uploaded a news article captioned “Zinc InVision to launch 28 hotels across Mid-East in $180m plan” which ran as follows: “Zinc InVision, a joint venture between Thailand’s InVision Hospitality […]

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Thailand’s Charn Issara developing projects in Cha-am and Hua Hin

Thailand’s Charn Issara Development (CI) has revealed plans to develop two new projects in resort towns Cha-am and Hua Hin in response to growing demands from both local and overseas buyers. The first project in Cha-am will be a mixed-use development worth THB1.7 billion (US$56.84). The company will co-invest with developer Krisda Mahanakorn (KMC) in […]

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Pattaya to have South East Asia’s leading water-park

Ramayana Water Park representatives and investors held an official signing ceremony on April 8 with their partners from WhiteWater West Industries of Canada at the Inter Continental Hotel Bangkok to announce the construction of a new 900 million baht state of the art water-park in Pattaya. WhiteWater West Industries, the world’s leading designer and manufacturer […]

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Thailand Real Estate And Construction Business Report

Real estate and construction businesses reported revenue for 2010 with income over 3 trillion baht and a total profit of 35 billion baht. Italian-Thai Development PCL revenue was up to 36,676 million baht. Thirty five housing developers had combined earnings of 1.61 billion, an increase of 16%, and profits jumped more than 26% to over […]

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Thailand – water pollution control industry

The current total market size for wastewater treatment is estimated at about $1.533 billion USD, with an average growth rate of about 10% per year (government sector $613 million USD, private sector $920 million USD). In general, construction and engineering services costs are 85% of the project with the remaining 15% for equipment. Thus, the […]

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Thailand’s Rail projects are 10,000 workers short

Contractors demand Burmese migrants Mass transit contractors have made a desperate appeal to labour authorities to hire 10,000 immigrant workers to complete the 236km electric railway system in greater Bangkok. The contractors had complained about a lack of labourers which would result in construction delays, Supoj Saplorm, permanent secretary of the Transport Ministry, said. They […]

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TCC Land buys out CapitalLand holding in JV

Singapore-based CapitaLand has sold off its 40-per-cent stake in joint-venture firm TCC Capital Land to TCC Land Co, according to a news release yesterday. TCC Capital Land’s chief exe-cutive officer and managing |director, Soammaphat Traisorat, said in the release that his com-pany had paid cash to buy the Bt2.33-billion stake from CapitaLand. After the deal, […]

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