Lighthouse Club Yangon branch networking event – 27 February 2018 Lighthouse Club – Yangon Branch -27 February 2018 at “The MiCasa Hotel Apartments”, No.17 Kaba Aye Pagoda Road, Yankin Township, Yangon, 7-9pm Please note that this month’s event will be held on TUESDAY 27th February This month’s Lighthouse Club – Yangon branch networking event will […]
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Society of Professional Engineers in Thailand (SPET) Monthly Members Meeting – 15th February 2018 SPET Monthly Members Meeting on Thursday 15th February 2018 – Talk on “Process performance improvement through Balance Plus control concept ” By Antti Toivonen Thursday 15th February 2018, 6:30pm at the British Club, Soi 18, Silom Road, Bangkok See Flyer SPET […]
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The EDGE Green building rating system; certification made easy. [If anybody would like us to publish their article on a construction / engineering subject related to Thailand or its neighbouring countries, please kindly send to us – ED] “The EDGE organization has looked at the article and they are requesting we post […]
Continue ReadingProposed Amendments to the Thai Arbitration Act B.E. 2545 (2002) – by Victor Smith Dear TCN, You might like to include an article I have written on the new draft Thai Arbitration Act I wrote in November 2017. [If anybody would like us to publish their article on a construction / engineering subject related to […]
Continue ReadingICC Thailand Arbitration Dinner Talk “Negotiating Arbitration Agreements – The Cost of Compromise” Dear TCN, I would be most grateful if you could circulate the flyer [ Arbitration Dinner Talk Program 1502181 ] for the ICC Thailand Arbitration Dinner Talk “Negotiating Arbitration Agreements – The Cost of Compromise” that will be held on 15 February 2018. It […]
Continue ReadingGot a minute? Eight interesting facts about time and work Before the Industrial Revolution, the working week for most people in Britain was dictated by nature’s cycles and the demands of the task at hand. But, as Professor Emma Griffin discovers in Clocking On, the rise of factories turned time into a commodity. Since then, […]
Continue ReadingTwelve management jargon gems we all love to hate Why does our boss insist we “go forward” to lands of “deliverables,” stopping off on the “journey” to “drill down” into “best practice”? Management euphemisms have flooded the working landscape. With the new series of W1A on our screens and Thinking Allowed exploring the phrases we […]
Continue Reading10-YEAR VISAS NOW AVAILABLE: THAI IMMIGRATION The much awaited 10-year visa for foreign retirees is now available, the top commander of the immigration police said Wednesday. , though staff seem to be unaware of the announcement. Lt. Gen. Natthathorn Prohsunthorn said the new visa will come in two installments of five years each. It can […]
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Lighthouse Club Yangon branch networking event – 30 August 2017 Time Out Sport Bars, Novotel Max Hotel, Pyay Road, 7 – 9 pm Please note that we have a change of venue for this month’s Lighthouse Club Yangon branch networking event. This month it will be held at Time Out Sport Bars at Novotel Max […]
Continue ReadingBangkok’s taxis 7th cheapest in the world It doesn’t come as any surprise that Bangkok has placed in the top ten cheapest cities in the world to take a taxi, according to the 2017 Taxi Price Index, conducted by Carspring, a British online used car dealership. Out of the 80 most visited in the world, […]
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