Cambodia News
A group of Thai and Lao business people have announced a plan to spend 10 billion baht to develop a large shopping and hotel complex in Vientiane in order to cash in on opportunities arising from the coming Asean Economic Community. The massive complex on 200 rai has the support of the Lao government, which […]
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Although a bit trite with repetition, no saying better encapsulates the major obstacle facing Laos than “geography is destiny”. The only landlocked country in Southeast Asia, Laos is wedged between the vast rivers and expansive mountain ranges that demarcate its natural borders with China, Vietnam, Cambodia, Myanmar and Thailand. Because of its lack of access […]
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2015 is a big year for the climate change agenda. In December, negotiators will descend upon Paris to sign a new universal and legally binding treaty to tackle the issue. Yet as oil apologists and environmental campaigners dispute the impact of greenhouse gas emissions, business people are seizing the advantage of government subsidies to profit […]
Continue Reading(MENAFN – Gulf Times) Countries of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Asean) are taking steps to extend leasehold periods granted for foreign individual or companies for land in a bid to boost investment. The Thai government recently approved 99-year leases for state land for industrial and commercial use to speed up the development of […]
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Cambodia’s 14 clusters of casinos in towns just over its borders with Thailand and Vietnam function as Macau does for China, offering a nearby, culturally familiar setting for gamblers from the other side of the border to do what they can’t do back home. The scale is just a little bit different. Macau has massive […]
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Automobile leather manufacturing, visual from CWT website Thailand’s leading manufacturer of leather-finished products Chai Wattana Tannery Group (CWT) set up two joint venture firms with Zero Waste Company and Lawi Engineering (Thailand) Company, in order to invest and run the first waste-to-energy plant in the north of Thailand. One joint venture will run the waste […]
Continue ReadingLow unemployment (below 1% since 2011) due to low birth rate, lack of social insurance & informal sector with 64% of workforce (street vendors, motorbike taxis, self-employed). Sugar-cane farmers in Chon Buri province are among the more than 40% of Thailand’s population engaged in agriculture, where there is a high degree of underemployment and off-season […]
Continue ReadingYann Guezennec, left, and Jean-Christophe Moreaux introduce the new Belmond corporate identity last week, when they announced that the group plans to expand its business in Thailand and elsewhere in Southeast Asia. Belmond, the global high-end hotel operator and adventure-travel company, is expanding its business in Southeast Asia, showing confidence in the Myanmar and Thai […]
Continue ReadingSI SA KET, 12 January 2014 – The construction of a road linking Thailand and Cambodia in Si Sa Ket province is expected to be finished in November and ready for tourism in the AEC era. According to Deputy Minister of Transport Akom Termpittayapaisit, the 7.5 kilometer road, which is located in Phusing district, will […]
Continue ReadingVelosolutions has been building a vast array of pumptracks and pumpparks in Europe over the past few years, most notably in Zurich, Pontresina, Sils I.D, and most recently in Pfaffikon. For us, to build something on another continent was a dream for us. So when the opportunity to build in South East Asia presented itself, […]
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