THAILAND – ENERGY PFI – Hongsa to light up Laos One of largest single power financings in Asia – Latest in a long line of Lao-Thai deals Banpu Power and Ratchaburi Electricity Generating Holding Public Company are about to complete the final touches to a massive US$2.7bn debt facility for their US$3.71bn Hongsa lignite […]
Continue ReadingPTTEP closes up on M9 gas deal Thailand will sign an agreement tomorrow to buy natural gas from the Zawtika field at the offshore Block M9 in the Gulf of Martaban in Burma from late 2013, Energy Minister Wannarat Charnnukul said.
Continue ReadingTHAILAND – TELECOMMUNICATIONS Asia Pacific Wire & Cable Corporation’s Thailand Subsidiary Receives Several Major Contracts for Telecommunications Cable Asia Pacific Wire & Cable Corporation Limited, a leading manufacturer of wire and cable products for the telecommunications and electric-power industries in selected Asia-Pacific markets, today announced that one of its Thai subsidiaries, Siam Fiber Optics, Co, […]
Continue ReadingTHAILAND – TELECOMMUNICATIONS Asia Pacific Wire & Cable Corporation’s Thailand Subsidiary Receives Several Major Contracts for Telecommunications Cable Asia Pacific Wire & Cable Corporation Limited, a leading manufacturer of wire and cable products for the telecommunications and electric-power industries in selected Asia-Pacific markets, today announced that one of its Thai subsidiaries, Siam Fiber Optics, Co, […]
Continue ReadingTHAILAND – ROAD CONSTRUCTION Construction of Coastal Road Link to Cambodia Thailand begins next month 220-kilometer international highway in the Mekong Delta connecting Vietnam with Cambodia and Thailand will begin construction next month. The Thailand-Cambodia-Vietnam Southern Coastal Road Corridor will begin in Bangkok and end at Nam Can District in Ca Mau Province, Vietnam. The […]
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High-speed rail considered China offers to help with costs, technology The Thai government could join with the Chinese government to build the country’s first high-speed rail network, says Finance Minister Korn Chatikavanij. Mr Korn told the Bangkok Post the two countries were looking to co-operate in a government-to-government joint venture to build a high-speed rail […]
Continue ReadingTHAILAND – PROPERTY Phang Nga’s Beach Front Land Surge Stunned By New Zoning Act One of Greater Phuket’s most dynamic property markets of the past eight years has suffered a setback with the introduction of a new Ministerial Regulation which came into effect July 3.
Continue ReadingTHAILAND – PROPERTY Phang Nga’s Beach Front Land Surge Stunned By New Zoning Act One of Greater Phuket’s most dynamic property markets of the past eight years has suffered a setback with the introduction of a new Ministerial Regulation which came into effect July 3.
Continue ReadingTHAILAND – CONSTRUCTION Lucky Escape as Lift Plunges 10 Floors at Pattaya Hotel Sixteen people have been injured in a devastating lift accident at the Welcome Jomtien Hotel in Pattaya on Saturday. The group had entered the lift at the 18th floor before an unknown power failure resulted in the lift freefalling 10 floors […]
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THAILAND – AIRPORT LINK Bangkok Airport Link to start commercial operation Aug 23 Suvarnabhumi airport’s Airport Link commercial services will begin August 23 with special discount fares offered Suvarnabhumi airport’s Airport Link commercial services will begin August 23 with special discount fares offered until the end of the year. After presiding at ceremony during […]
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