Ubon Ratchathani and Nakhon Sawan are picked as the principal locations of five nuclear power plants, with combined capacity of 5,000 megawatts, said a source from the Energy Ministry. He cited huge local resistance in Nakhon Si Thammarat and Surat Thani, which made it impossible to locate the power plants in the two Southern provinces. […]
Continue ReadingThe Hongsa Thermal Power Company-based Sayaboury province signed an agreement on engineer services and construction management with the Electricity Generating Authority of Thailand in Vientiane Capital, on 14 September.
Continue ReadingLizhong Wheel Group to build S$21.7m plant in Thailand SINGAPORE: Mainboard-listed Lizhong Wheel Group has extended its reach overseas with a S$21.7 million plant in Thailand. It has also established a subsidiary called New Thai Wheel Manufacturing to develop, manufacture and sell aluminium alloy wheels and its related parts from Thailand.
Continue ReadingAppointment of CBRE Indochina to sell JSM Indochina’s property portfolio 20 September 2010 – The Board of JSM Indochina Limited (AIM: JSM.L) is pleased to announce that CB Richard Ellis (CBRE) has been appointed to sell the property portfolio owned by JSM Indochina Ltd , comprising assets in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, and Phnom […]
Continue ReadingMaking the most of Water Sep 20, 2010 (Bangkok Post) The Irrigation Department is speeding up work to consolidate 114,000 rai of land in the vicinity of the newly built Kwai Noi Bamrung Daen Dam, with the help of a 1.58-billion-baht loan from the Japan International Co-operation Agency (JICA). Rapid progress is seen as essential […]
Continue ReadingSwiss hotelier Mövenpick celebrated the grand opening of its Mövenpick Hotel Saigon yesterday, Sept. 16, following a $15 million renovation that included each and every room, public space, restaurant and retail outlet positioned behind the property’s shimmering new modernist façade.
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Resting silently beneath the crowd like a slumbering serpent, a single train track winds through the heart of Mae Klong food market in the small Thai province of Samut Songkhram. Flanked by bushels of crisp winged beans and water spinach, bulbous knobs of jackfruit and pallets of artfully arranged fish gawking in unison at oblivion, […]
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The award-winning design of the Orang Laut Culture Center is one big step closer to construction now that the extra budget needed has been approved. The Phuket Cultural Office (PCO) announced they will soon be seeking tenders for construction. The center, which takes its name from the Malay Orang Laut, meaning “sea people”, will be […]
Continue ReadingVanstones Estate Agents of London, International Department voted us Best Value, Best Quality Home builder for the 2nd year running in Thailand which was fabulous news. We also featured in several national and international magazines covering our service and Conde Nast Award for a design/build of Kensington’s which won the hottest Hotel in Asia. We […]
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Thailand‘s fire-damaged CentralWorld complex to reopen September 28 Thailand‘s CentralWorld shopping complex –the country’s largest– will reopen for shoppers September 28, according to Central Pattana president and chief executive officer, Kobchai Chirathivat.CentralWorld, Thailand’s largest shopping complex and the second largest in Southeast Asia, was set afire by allegedly disgruntled Red Shirt protesters after their protest […]
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