The Bangkok Metropolitan Administration (BMA) is now constructing its eighth flood tunnel with aim to ease flooding in the capital’s six major areas. It has planned to build four other flood tunnels which will resolve flooding in the capital sustainably. The assurance of resolving flood problem in Bangkok on a sustainable basis was given by […]
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The Mass Rapid Transit Authority (MRTA) will today begin boring tunnel under the Chao Phraya river for its Blue Line expansion project. The deep tunnel boring project will be the country’s second tunnel under the river. The tunnel boring ceremony will be chaired by Prime Minister Gen Prayut Chan-o-cha today. MRTA board chairman Gen Yodyuth […]
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Singapore-based property investment firm Pacific Star has unveiled its latest condominium project – a Bt4.2-billion project on Tiwanon Road in Bangkok – that will be within walking distance of an MRT station along the new Purple Line. Jirawat Kateseang, Pacific Star Thailand vice president and head of sales and marketing, said that the company will […]
Continue ReadingA panel set up by the Mass Rapid Transit Authority of Thailand (MRTA) has concluded that there was nothing illegal about paying additional construction costs of 290 million baht for an extension of its Blue Line electric rail route. The investigation was started after the Office of the Auditor-General (OAG) recently sent the MRTA an […]
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Graham Storah, executive vice president of Loxley International LOXLEY International Co expects to start construction of the first Kompogas plant in Thailand by the end of the third quarter. Graham Storah, executive vice president of Loxley International, said Kompogas utilised “dry thermophilic anaerobic digestion” technology to treat organic fractions of waste.The process produces biogas, which […]
Continue ReadingBMA ‘ready’ to pay off B19bn of MRTA debts City Hall has welcomed the government’s decision to let it take over the extension of the Green Line electric rail from Bearing to Samut Prakan. The line was previously under the care of the Mass Rapid Transit Authority of Thailand (MRTA). The Bangkok Metropolitan Administration (BMA) […]
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Changes in the economic environment unconsciously affect our behavior and it is therefore necessary to adapt to these changes especially where residences, which change with the times are concerned. Phuket is a tourist city well known all over the world. It is also known to be strong economically. Having looked into the past investment trends […]
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Anantara Hotels, Resorts & Spas, has added Anantara Siam Bangkok Hotel to its portfolio, effective 1 March, when the group took over the management of the former Four Seasons. Located in prestigious Rajadamri in the city’s Siam district, the hotel is now the brand’s flagship in its home market of Thailand. The property started its […]
Continue ReadingAYUTTHAYA, Thailand, March 5 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – N estled among hundreds of identical white and brown two-storey homes crammed in this neighbourhood for factory workers is a house with a trick – one not immediately apparent from its green-painted drywall and grey shade panels. Hidden under the house and its wraparound porch are steel […]
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Thailand’s Transport Ministry is planning to open two cruise liner ports with one in Krabi and the other in Surat Thani. A yacht show is also being scheduled Thailand’s Transport Ministry unveiled their plans to build two cruise liner ports. A port will be built in Krabi and Surat Thani. The plans come as no […]
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