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Transport Minister Prajin Juntong predicts the Chinese-Lao-Thai railway link will be completed within 2020. (Photo by Pattarapong Chatpattarasill) Transport Minister Prajin Juntong expects the double-track railway linking southern China, Laos and central Thailand will be completed within five years. The minister discussed the transnational railway project with Lao authorities in Bangkok on Monday. After the […]
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Laos hopes a railway between Vietnam and Thailand and another connecting Thailand and China will help drive socio-economic development in the impoverished country. Laos and China will jointly build a bridge linking the Southeast Asian nation with northeastern Thailand as part of a U.S. $7.2 billion high-speed railway project that has been delayed by numerous […]
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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 […]
Continue ReadingSURIN, 26 June 2015 (NNT) – The double track railway service to the northeastern region of Thailand is expected to commence from 2022 which will help develop Thailand as the logistics hub of ASEAN, an official was quoted in a public forum. The Vice Governor of Surin Thavorn Kulchoti today presided over the public forum […]
Continue ReadingTHAILAND’S power utility Egat has been accused of exacerbating conflict in Myanmar’s Shan state by backing a controversial dam on the Salween. More than a dozen Shan community groups called on the Electricity Generating Authority of Thailand and China’s Three Gorges Corporation yesterday to pull out of the huge Mong Ton Dam, saying the US$8-billion […]
Continue Reading(MENAFN – Gulf Times) Countries of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Asean) are taking steps to extend leasehold periods granted for foreign individual or companies for land in a bid to boost investment. The Thai government recently approved 99-year leases for state land for industrial and commercial use to speed up the development of […]
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“Cheap” energy fails to take into account the permanent environmental devastation, the social breakdown and the long-term repercussions. (File photo) The National Energy Policy Council last week approved Thailand’s new Power Development Plan (PDP 2015), which lays out Thailand’s energy and investment plans for the next 21 years. The plan aims to double Thailand’s installed energy […]
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THAILAND’s government has approved construction of the 187km metre-gauge line from Chira junction to Khon Kaen, which is part of the Transport Ministry’s new infrastructure development plan. The line is expected to cost Baht 26bn ($US 772m) to construct with work set to begin in the next few months. The government is aiming for operations […]
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One of the tree tunnels on a road between Muang and Tha Wang Pha districts in Nan is saved from the axeman. (Photo by Rarinthorn Petcharoen) NAN – The Highways Department agreed on Wednesday to save part of a tunnel of trees endangered by road construction following an outcry from environmentalists and local people. About […]
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