Thailand leads the way when it comes to quality of life and a good social scene, while Switzerland is top for making money and Germany for raising children Thailand is the easiest place in the world for expats to make friends and have an active social life, a survey has revealed. If the focus is […]
Continue ReadingTHAILAND RANKS near the bottom in an English proficiency survey, showing the persistence of one of the key competitive weaknesses of the Thai economy. Out of 60 countries and territories where English is not their mother tongue, Thailand manages only 55th place – outdoing only Panama, Kazakhstan, Algeria, Saudi Arabia and Iraq, according to the […]
Continue ReadingThe Cabinet approved big changes in the individual income taxation structure. In the executive decree, the maximum tax rate is lowered from 37 per cent to 35 per cent while tax brackets are expanded from five to seven during the 2013 and 2014 tax years. Under the new brackets, the minimum 5 per rate will […]
Continue ReadingThe Cabinet approved big changes in the individual income taxation structure. In the executive decree, the maximum tax rate is lowered from 37 per cent to 35 per cent while tax brackets are expanded from five to seven during the 2013 and 2014 tax years. Under the new brackets, the minimum 5 per rate will […]
Continue ReadingThere is no doubt that, if left to stand for the next thousand years, the yet-unborn generations of Thais would be debating the possible purpose of hundreds of concrete pillars that lined the stretch of railroad in northern Bangkok. For the moment, though, the towering concrete slabs – appropriately nicknamed by many as ′Bangkok Stonehenge′ […]
Continue ReadingThere is no doubt that, if left to stand for the next thousand years, the yet-unborn generations of Thais would be debating the possible purpose of hundreds of concrete pillars that lined the stretch of railroad in northern Bangkok. For the moment, though, the towering concrete slabs – appropriately nicknamed by many as ′Bangkok Stonehenge′ […]
Continue ReadingThailand’s property market may enjoy a 10 per cent growth this year, an expansion by 120,000 housing units, according to the Government Housing Bank (GHB). Samma Kitsin, director of the GHB Real Estate Information Centre, said there were 32,000 newly-built housing units in the first three quarters of the year and the figure will rise […]
Continue ReadingJapanese construction company Obayashi has been awarded a contract to provide civil engineering works for the 288 MW Nam Ngiep 1 hydropower project in Laos. The project is being developed by Nam Ngiep 1 Power Co. Ltd., which includes KPIC Netherlands B.V., the Electricity Generating Authority of Thailand (EGAT), and Lao Holding State Enterprise (LHSE), […]
Continue ReadingParts of Southeast Bangkok sinking by up to 28mm a year, seminar told Due to extensive use of groundwater, land subsidence in Bangkok has reached a worrying level with instances more than doubling in neighbouring Samut Prakan, a seaside province, which is also losing land at an unusually high rate to coastal erosion, a Chulalongkorn […]
Continue ReadingINSTEAD of putting aside Bt30 billion to build a new coal-power plant in Krabi, the Electricity Generating Authority of Thailand (Egat) should make energy consumption more efficient in the near future, experts say. “There is no need to build a new coal-power plant or any other kind of power plant for the next 10 or […]
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