The Beijing-based PowerChina Resources Limited (PCR), a shareholder of Sinohydro Kamchay Hydroelectric Project Co. Ltd, which developed the Kamchay hydroelectric dam in Kampot, expressed its interest in building electricity transmission lines in Cambodia. This expression of interest was made when the director general of PCR, Du Chunguo, met the Kingdom’s Minister of Mines and Energy, […]
Continue ReadingYoma Strategic has completed another step on the long road toward starting work on a 10-acre mixed-use luxury development in downtown Yangon. The Singapore-listed firm, which has major interests in Myanmar real estate, announced yesterday in a filing to the bourse that it had signed a shareholders’ agreement with several parties involved in the long-delayed […]
Continue ReadingThe Department of Skill Development (DSD) will raise awareness for the 2014 Skill Development Promotion Act for building electricians, before the law is enforced on October 26th. The DSD and the Thai Electrical & Mechanical Contractors Association (TEMCA) will co-host a seminar about the law from August 19th – 21st in Pattaya city, primarily for […]
Continue ReadingThe Thai government expects to announce contractors for construction of two motorway sections this month after steel price hikes derailed a recent tender process. The sections are part of the 196km motorway connecting Bang Pa-in district in Ayutthaya with Nakhon Ratchasima in the northeast, according to a report in the Bangkok Post. The project, costing […]
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Japanese trading house Mitsubishi Corp said Tuesday that it has agreed with Mitsubishi Estate Co to commence work on a mixed-use landmark development project in downtown Yangon, Myanmar, in collaboration with Singapore-listed Yoma Strategic Holdings Ltd and local firm First Myanmar Investment Co. The project, which will cover 200,000 square metres of residential, commercial, retail […]
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“I love them,” says Thomas Pfluger, a local resident, gazing at the windmills jutting out above the tree-tops. “To look at them, it makes me proud.” Pfluger’s home village, with its old Catholic church and traditional beer garden, may be rural Bavaria at its most idyllic, but it’s also at the cutting edge of Germany’s […]
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Workers from the Electrical Generating Authority of Thailand (EGAT) working in conjunction with ten other cable companies have started on the work in the Chaweng beach road area of the island, reported Thairath. They hope to eventually bury some 3.1 kilometers of wires in the area at a cost of 380 million baht. The Chaweng […]
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Airports Corporation of Vietnam says work on phase one of the Long Thanh International Airport should begin April 2021 based on current progress. Saigon Times media quoted ACV outlining the legal procedures for terminal design bids for the project that will be developed in Long Thanh district. ACV said the bids will be presented 8 […]
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Cambodia is committed to complete construction of the 6.5-kilometre cross-border railway linking Poipet town to Aranyaprathet by the year’s end. Public Works and Transport Minister Sun Chanthol gave the assurance on Sunday when he inspected the construction site in Poipet in Banteay Meanchey province where the railway tracks from Cambodia and Thailand will meet, the […]
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At 60 years old, she’s much older than your typical budding entrepreneur. Yet in her home country of Thailand she was the first person willing to take a chance on an industry still in its infancy – solar power. In fact, she was so convinced of the sector’s potential that she came out of retirement […]
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