A Thai company, Hydrotek, an engineering firm, says it is planning to enter the water-management business in Burma, which is underdeveloped and will grow in the near future. Chief executive officer Slib Soongswang told The Nation newspaper in Bangkok the company will focus on Burma and Laos, because they are similar to Thailand 30 years […]
Continue ReadingSuggestions 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 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 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 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 […]
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