Transport 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 […]
Continue ReadingThailand’s eastern double-track railroad linking this province with Chonburi’s Laem Chabang opened Thursday, and expanding the country’s road and rail logistics system with a connection to the deepwater Laem Chabang Port. Deputy Transport Minister Pol Lt-Gen Chat Kuldilok presided over the railway’s opening ceremony. The railroad will also support the Lat Krabang Inland Container Depot […]
Continue ReadingThailand’s eastern double-track railroad linking this province with Chonburi’s Laem Chabang opened Thursday, and expanding the country’s road and rail logistics system with a connection to the deepwater Laem Chabang Port. Deputy Transport Minister Pol Lt-Gen Chat Kuldilok presided over the railway’s opening ceremony. The railroad will also support the Lat Krabang Inland Container Depot […]
Continue ReadingThe Bangkok Metropolitan Administration will go on with its project to build a bridge across Chao Phraya in Kiakkai area although the Parliament wants the bridge to be relocated. A House committee in charge of building a new Parliament complex wants the Kiakkai bridge to be relocated by 400 metres away from the new Parliament […]
Continue ReadingThe commercial world beats a noisy path to a former pariah’s door Burma, long an outcast nation, is starting to see the benefit of political reforms undertaken by President U Thein Sein’s government. Although it is early days, delegations of western businessmen have started to appear on the horizon, looking for opportunity. The reforms are […]
Continue ReadingThe Burmese authorities have halted the construction of a Thai-backed power station, citing concerns over pollution and the environment. The decision on the coal-fired plant at Dawei comes four months after the controversial Chinese-funded Myitsone hydroelectric dam was halted. The move is seen as another indication of burgeoning political and economic reforms. The announcement came […]
Continue ReadingCentara Hotels & Resorts has announced that its latest hotel in Pattaya, Centara Pattaya Hotel, soft-opened recently. The hotel joins two other Pattaya properties that are currently open, and a third that is at present under construction. Centara Pattaya Hotel is located in Central Pattaya, within a few minutes’ walk of the beach, and is […]
Continue ReadingThe new Parliament building may be relocated from the Kiakkai intersection in Bangkok to Saraburi after a delay in its construction, Deputy House Speaker Charoen Chankomol said yesterday. Charoen told Nation TV that the building of the new Parliament complex has been set back due to several obstacles. Among them, the Army and the Bangkok […]
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