Laos News
Demco, a contractor and engineering service provider listed on the Stock Exchange of Thailand, plans to proceed with the alternative-energy business, with the aim of owning power plants driven by wind and solar energy with the capacity of at least 100 megawatts by next year. Managing director Pongsak Siricupta says he is confident this year’s […]
Continue ReadingThe operator of the skytrain has expressed an interest in being part of the Thai-Chinese double-track rail route joint venture. The project caught the attention of Bangkok Mass Transit System Plc, or BTS, after Transport Minister ACM Prajin Juntong recently declared that private Thai companies with experience in railway operations would be welcome to join […]
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Myanmar workers get their passports stamped at the immigration checkpoint next to the first Tak-Myawaddy bridge in Mae Sot district. The second bridge will be built nearby in some three years to relieve congestion. (Photo by Assawin Pinijwong) The Transport Ministry will seek 3.9 billion baht to fund a second bridge spanning the Moei River […]
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Sunee Seripanu, CEO of the Mc Group, Wandee Khunchornyakong, CEO of SPCG Plc, Yuwadee Chirathivat, CEO of the Central Department Store Group, Somporn Juangroongruangkit, chairman of the Thai Summit Group, and Chadatip Chutrakul, CEO of Siam Piwat Co. (Bangkok Post photos) Five Thais made Forbes Asia magazine’s list of the Asia’s 50 most powerful businesswomen […]
Continue ReadingBANGKOK, Feb 26 (Reuters) – Thailand’s largest private power producer, Ratchaburi Electricity Generating Holding Pcl , said it plans to invest 13 billion baht ($399 million) in 2015, mostly on expanding its power business at home and Southeast Asia. The amount is part of a plan to spend $1.5 billion to boost its electricity generating […]
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A Bangkok Airways jet parks at Wattay International Airport in Vientiane. Laos plans to build a new, bigger airport farther from the capital. (File photo by Boonsong Kositchotethana) The Lao government will sign an agreement with Lao and Chinese firms to launch a feasibility study into a new airport site for Vientiane, a Lao official […]
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A partially functioning automatic fire protection system at Siam Commercial Bank (SCB) led to Saturday’s fire burning for much longer than necessary, destroying valuable documents, engineers say. The Siam Commercial Bank headquarters is temporarily closed after a fire damaged its 10th floor on Saturday night. The bank has set up a contact centre for customers […]
Continue ReadingLaos and Myanmar have set May as the date for the opening of the first bridge over the Mekong River that links the two countries. Xaysongkham Manotham, the project manager, told the Vientiane Times that the opening date had been moved forward from August after the US$26 million (848 million baht) bridge is completed in […]
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 […]
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BANGKOK,Thailand – Centara Hotels & Resort’s latest venture is a brand-new property now being built in Sriracha, Chonburi. The Centara Sonrisa Residence and Suites Sriracha, currently being developed by Smile Condo (2011) Co. Ltd, will operate as a family-friendly four-star residence. The hotel is now in the design phase and the Centara Group expects that […]
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