Construction workers on Tuesday laid the last piece of a railway that will link Southwest China’s Yunnan province with the Association of Southeast Asian Nations countries. The Yuxi-Mengzi Railway has a total length of 141 km with a designed maximum speed of 120 km per hour. It passes through 35 tunnels and crosses 61 bridges, […]
Continue ReadingArchetype Group, a leading multi-disciplinary construction consultancy in Asia, the Middle East and Europe, will celebrate its 10th Anniversary in September. Founded in Vietnam in 2002 by French architects and engineers, Archetype soon expanded to Cambodia, Laos, Thailand, India and France. In the past year, Archetype has continued its solid growth and opened offices in […]
Continue ReadingThis summer marked the return to Pattaya of a familiar face to the local real estate sector when ex-Raimon Land CEO Nigel Cornick announced his new development vehicle Kingdom Property had secured finance from the Krungthai Bank for their first major project in the city, and indeed Thailand, the THB 2 billion Southpoint condominium on […]
Continue ReadingPattaya Property and Thailand’s Real Estate Book is on sale now As is the case with most of the property markets in Asia, the Thai real estate market emerged practically unscathed from the recession in the Western World and, over the past two years, has gone from strength to strength. After Bangkok, which has been a […]
Continue ReadingConstruction of ten more routes in Thailand’s Northeast with a budget of Bt18.6 billion was endorsed by the Public-Private Partnership Committee meeting in this northeastern province today. Deputy Prime Minister/Finance Minister Kittiratt Na Ranong said the committee agreed on the new infrastructure, affirming that the big-budget routes will be put in the government’s Bt2 trillion […]
Continue ReadingThailand-based ONYX Hospitality Group marked a key milestone in the development of one of its upcoming projects, OZO Chaweng Samui, with a ‘ground breaking’ ceremony to mark the start of construction at the project site. Located in the popular and central resort area, Chaweng, the new OZO will be the first OZO property in Thailand as […]
Continue ReadingSixteen large industrial projects worth a combined 117 billion baht won Board of Investment (BoI) approval yesterday including proposals by big regional players Toyota, IRPC and PTT. With the BoI’s green light, PTT plans to spend 23 billion baht to develop a natural gas transport network linking Ayutthaya’s Wang Noi with Nakhon Sawan province, 16 […]
Continue ReadingKey oil and gas investors from across Asia will gather in Singapore this September to grow their portfolios during the 2nd Oil & Gas Investor Summit Asia. With more than half the world’s population residing in Asia, demand for power surpasses what the rest of the world requires to support its robust economy. Asia is […]
Continue ReadingFoster Wheeler AG announced today that a subsidiary of its Global Engineering and Construction Group has been awarded a contract by Samsung Engineering Co. Ltd. (Samsung) for a waste heat recovery unit for PTT Public Company Limited’s (PTT) Power Generation and Heat Recovery project at the Map Ta Phut Industrial Complex in Thailand. Samsung is […]
Continue ReadingA seminar on a new electrical generating plant planned for Krabi attracted 600 people on Saturday (July 28), but villagers most likely to be affected by the plant have asked for more information relating to health and pollution impacts. The new 800-megawatt Electrical Generating Authority of Thailand (EGAT) facility is planned in connection with the […]
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