Distinctive Phuket lifestyle resort, Indigo Pearl, has been honoured as Asia’s Leading Design Hotel at the World Travel Awards 2010, Described as the ‘Oscars’ of the travel and tourism industry. The World Travel Awards which is monitored and independently audited is the foremost and most prestigious awards program in the travel, tourism and hospitality industry […]
Continue ReadingJFE Steel Corporation has announced that it will construct Thailand‘s first continuous galvanizing line for automobiles at the Hemaraj Eastern Seaboard Industrial Estate of Rayong Province in southeastern Thailand. JFE Steel’s wholly owned subsidiary JFE Steel Galvanizing (Thailand) Limited will handle construction and operation of the facility, as well as sales of hot dip galvanized […]
Continue ReadingThe railroad is many things to people in Cambodia: playground, garbage dump, open-air toilet, livestock grazing ground, a dry path for traversing swampy terrain. What it has not been for many years is working transportation for either people or freight. In fact, train service was halted completely last year. That may change soon. Development specialists […]
Continue ReadingThe railroad is many things to people in Cambodia: playground, garbage dump, open-air toilet, livestock grazing ground, a dry path for traversing swampy terrain. What it has not been for many years is working transportation for either people or freight. In fact, train service was halted completely last year. That may change soon. Development specialists […]
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Cambodia provides ‘missing link’ in Iron Silk Road rail project By Andrew Buncombe, Asia Correspondent Cambodia‘s railway – for so long the victim of war, turmoil and the neglect that has beset the country – is poised to get moving again. Officials yesterday formally opened the first section of a new network that will stretch […]
Continue Reading Cambodia provides ‘missing link’ in Iron Silk Road rail project By Andrew Buncombe, Asia Correspondent Cambodia‘s railway – for so long the victim of war, turmoil and the neglect that has beset the country – is poised to get moving again. Officials yesterday formally opened the first section of a new network that will stretch […]
Continue ReadingBangkok, Thailand, based Mermaid Maritime Public Company Limited and Keppel Offshore & Marine subsidiary Keppel FELS Limited have entered into a Letter of Intent with a combined value of about US$360 million. It covers construction at the Singapore shipyard of two jack-up rigs (plus options for two more) for a new Mermaid-led joint venture: Asia […]
Continue ReadingSource: Reuters Cambodia has reopened a stretch of railway destroyed during the country’s war and officials described it as a step towards boosting regional trade through rail links with neighbours. The Asian Development Bank is contributing $84 million to a $141 million project to repair 650 km (400 miles) of railway linking Cambodia‘s capital, Phnom […]
Continue ReadingSolar Frontier to Supply 3.3 MW of CIS Modules to Thailand’s Gunkul Powergen Based in Northern Thailand, the plant will provide electricity using 38,500 panels with completion scheduled for the end of 2010. Japanese firm Solar Frontier will supply Gunkul Powergen with 3.3MW of CIS solar modules in a power plant project coordinated by Marubeni […]
Continue ReadingPöyry has been awarded engineering contractor services contracts for 6 x 110 and 1 x 120 MW gas-fired combined cycle cogeneration power plant projects in Thailand by Mit-Power (Thailand) Limited, which is owned by Mitsui. The total value of the assignments is about EUR 15 million. The Notice to Proceed (NTP) for the first three contracts with a value […]
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