Thailand’s Cape & Kantary adds brand new business hotel Kameo Hotel Amata Bangpakong offers short- and long-stay accommodation on Eastern Seaboard Cape & Kantary Hotels will expand its Thai portfolio this month with the launch of a brand new business hotel in Bangkok’s industrial hinterlands. Scheduled to open in October 2016, the Kameo Hotel Amata […]
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Lighthouse Club Networking Evening – October 12, 2016 – M+W (Thailand) Ltd.
Continue ReadingJapan provides Bt53-bn loan for Bangkok’s Red Line train project The Red Line commuter train project for the Bang Sue-Rangsit route will be extended a Bt53.48-billion loan by the Japan International Cooperation Agency (Jica) for its construction, with it slated to be operational in 2020. Finance Minister Apisak Tantiworawong and Shiro Sadoshima, ambassador of Japan […]
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ABB has won a repeat order from Doosan Heavy Industries to automate a 600 MW supercritical coal-fired power plant in Vietnam. The project is an expansion of the Vinh Tan 4 plant east of Ho Chi Minh City and once completed, it is die to add an extra 5600 MW to the national grid. ABB’s […]
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Swissotel Nai Lert Bangkok Hotel Set To Close One of Bangkok’s legacy properties, the Nai Lert Park Hotel has announced plans to close, under a change in ownership. Currently flagged as the Swissotel Nai Lert Bangkok and operated by the ACCOR chain, the property first entered the market as a Hilton. After 20 years under […]
Continue ReadingClenergy joins Powerful Blueplanet business collaboration in Thailand Clenergy is pleased to announce that it has joined the Powerful Blueplanet business collaboration project launched by PEA Encom and Fah Chai Engineering (FCE) in Thailand. Clenergy, the leading solar mounting solution provider, is pleased to announce that it has joined the Powerful Blueplanet business collaboration project […]
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McConnell Dowell recognised for Thai gas pipeline Construction company Aveng’s McConnell Dowell subsidiary received top honours for excellence in project execution at the International Pipe Line & Offshore Contractors Association Awards held in Paris, France, earlier this month. The company was recognised for its fourth transmission pipeline phase 2 project, in Thailand. The pipeline delivers […]
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Thailand’s EGAT completes comprehensive dam monitoring installation The Electricity Generating Authority of Thailand and the National Electronics and Computer Technology Centre have completed their installation of automated monitoring systems on all of EGAT’s dams and hydropower projects. The collaboration began in 2013 when NECTEC was charged with helping to develop a comprehensive, real-time data gathering […]
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No ban on Myanmar hotels Myanmar’s Ministry of Hotels and Tourism denies it has banned construction of new hotels at several major tourist spots following reports in local newspapers. The report on the supposed ban of new hotel builds was rolled out by the country’s usually cautious Global New Light of Myanmar, last week. Ministry […]
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Thai Solar Energy Pcl (TSE), one of the listed solar companies, has expanded its portfolio by acquiring stakes in two operators of biomass power plants to sustain its revenue growth in the long term, according to the Board of Directors’ resolution last week. Somphop Prompanapitak, chief operating officer, said that the board has approved the […]
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