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PTT wants to co-invest with Italian-Thai Development (ITD) in a 3,000 MW coal-fired power plant supplying Burma’s Dawei deep-sea port and industrial estate, according to a PTT source. The investment value of the plant is expected to be as high as US$4 billion (Bt120 billion). PTT envisions the project being divided into three phases. ITD […]
Continue ReadingLaos wants to start construction this year on the $3.8 billion (Bt115 billion) Thai-financed Xayaburi hydropower plant on the Mekong River after changing the design of the dam to placate neighbouring countries opposed to the project. Laos completed a review of the dam recently to ease concerns in three neighbouring countries that it would harm […]
Continue ReadingLaos wants to start construction this year on the $3.8 billion Thai-financed Xayaburi hydropower plant on the Mekong River after changing the design to placate neighboring countries opposed to the project. Laos completed a review of the dam initiated in April to ease concerns that it would harm rice production and fish catches downstream, said […]
Continue ReadingVientiane city is likely to increase international fame among travelers as more chains look at opening properties in Laos’ capital city. Vientiane continues to attract the largest share of visitors to the country due to its strategic location on the Mekong River and its close proximity to Thailand. According to data from 2010 published by […]
Continue ReadingPremchai Karnasuta stands on the grass-lined balcony of his 40th-floor office, surveying the Bangkok skyline as the sun sets. “We’re building that one,” he says, pointing to a hulking apartment complex. “And that one,” he adds, indicating another rising block. He pauses and waves a dismissive hand at the site. “So ugly,” he says. Karnasuta […]
Continue ReadingThailand’s new government unveiled a revised plan for the country’s high-speed train network on Tuesday, prioritising domestic rail expansion over an ambitious regional connectivity plan being spearheaded by China. Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra announced during her inaugural policy speech to parliament that three routes would be constructed linking Bangkok with urban centres in the north, […]
Continue ReadingA feasibility study on the construction of a 257km railway linking Cambodia and Viet Nam shows it will cost at least US$686 million. The railway will be part of an intra-Asian railway that runs from Singapore to China via Malaysia, Myanmar, Thailand, Laos, Cambodia and Viet Nam. Under a scheme announced in 2008 to develop […]
Continue ReadingDeal Establishes Framework for Southeast Asian Expansion Sopogy, Inc., the world’s leading developer of micro concentrated solar power (MicroCSP) technologies, and MAI Development Co. Ltd., an established Thai conglomerate focusing on manufacturing, construction, real estate, energy and government services, signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) for the development of an six-megawatt solar power plant in […]
Continue ReadingLaos is forging ahead with construction of a controversial $3.5 billion hydropower dam in breach of an agreement to suspend the project pending approval by ministers of neighboring countries, an environmental group said on Thursday. The Lao government has already given Thai developer Ch Karnchang the go-ahead to resume work on the Xayaburi Dam, informing […]
Continue ReadingElectricity Generating Authority of Thailand (Egat) is confident that the Xayaburi hydropower plant in Laos will be able to commence operations and feed in power by 2019 as scheduled. Environmental groups are against the massive construction project for the generation of more than 1,000 megawatts mainly for sale to Thailand. Egat governor Sutas Patamasiriwat said […]
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