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THAI renewable company Impact Energy Asia (IEA) plans to build the largest wind farm in Asean – and generate 600 megawatts on 400,000 rai in southern Laos – under an agreement signed by the Lao government and the company on Friday. “Called Monsoon Wind Farm, the US$1.5 billion [Bt50 billion] farm will be located near […]
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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 […]
Continue ReadingGamesa has achieved a new milestone in Asia by entering a new market – Thailand – where it has signed an agreement1 with Chinese developer PowerChina ZhongNan for the supply of 60 MW in total at three wind farms. Under the terms of the agreement, Gamesa will supply a total of 30 of its G114-2.0 […]
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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 […]
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Royal Rattanakosin Hotel. As a city that receives 25 million visitors a year, Bangkok abounds with hotels. The majority of them are new, gleaming and built according to the latest design trend — imposing structures with a lot of glass. Hidden in the shadows of modernity, however, are hotels that seem to be trapped in time, voluntarily […]
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Hua Lamphong railway station is preparing to celebrate its 100th anniversary next year as the hub of a rail system that has been showing its age. A new era of faster rail travel is eagerly awaited but could be a few more years away. (Photo by Chanat Katanyu) Compulsory detailed surveys will delay construction of […]
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Deputies of Vietnam’s National Assembly vote for the new Long Thanh airport project during a parliament session in Hanoi June 25, 2015. Vietnam plans to build an ambitious new $16-billion airport as an eventual competitor to sprawling airline hubs in Bangkok and Singapore, on a site that is bigger than both combined. Photo: Reuters The […]
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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Cambodia’s 14 clusters of casinos in towns just over its borders with Thailand and Vietnam function as Macau does for China, offering a nearby, culturally familiar setting for gamblers from the other side of the border to do what they can’t do back home. The scale is just a little bit different. Macau has massive […]
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