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Asia urged to push for energy interconnection
The key to promoting energy transition in Asia lies in the massive development and distribution of clean energy. “The discrepancy in energy consumption and distribution decides that building energy interconnection in Asia is an inevitable way forward to promote energy transition and realize clean development,” ...
Disaster centre sounds new flood alerts
Residents in Chumphon, Ranong and Nakhon Si Thammarat are being warned of heavy rainfall, flash floods and mudslides over the next few days. National Disaster Warning Centre issued a warning on January 18 about bad weather in the three southern provinces. The centre has warned ...
KBank keen to buy Indonesian banks
Thailand’s fourth-largest bank, Kasikornbank, is exploring the possibility of acquiring banks in Indonesia, but acknowledges this is a challenging goal due to the Indonesian regulator’s rules concerning foreign ownership of local banks. The regulations require foreign banks to buy more than one bank, and that the ...
Poor schools are at the heart of Thailand’s political malaise
Everyone knows that nurturing brainboxes is good for an economy. In Thailand, school reformers have an extra incentive: to narrow differences between rich people in cities and their poorer rural cousins, which have led to a decade of political tension and occasional eruptions of violence. ...
Thailand hopes to soar to the top of the aviation industry
As Asia edges towards becoming the world’s leading travel market, Thailand is gearing up to become a full-service aerospace hub, but does it have the facilities, resources and safety standards to dominate this lucrative industry? On an icy cold January day in 2009, US Airways ...
Exat schedules Phuket, Bangkok expressways
The Expressway Authority of Thailand (Exat) has set out a plan to develop two expressways in Bangkok and another in Phuket between this year and the next. The first project concerns the Rama III Road-Dao Khanong-Western Outer Ring Road Expressway, stretching 17km. Exat governor Narong ...
Uber delivers food in Bangkok
If you want to get the food you want from the restaurants you love, all from the comfort of your own home, Uber is now offering its first stand-alone food delivery app that lets you order grub the same way you order wheels. UberEats currently allows ...
Traffic cameras get new brief as police widen net
Cameras will be repositioned around the city to help curb a wider range of traffic violations and cut the rate of arguments between police and motorists, a senior officer says. Jirapat Phumjit, deputy chief of the Metropolitan Police Bureau who oversees traffic regulations in the ...
The Bird’s eye view: what endangered birds tell us about the risks of Mekong development
The Thai government started 2017 announcing another major commitment to transportation expansion: US$25 billion to finance futuristic high-speed trains, super highways and expanded sea and airports. Far less glitzy but immediately controversial, however, was one of its final transportation acts of 2016: preparing to restart, after ...
20 per cent of emergency patient deaths blamed on traffic jam delays
More than 20 per cent of patients needing emergency treatment have died on their way to hospital because of delays due to traffic jams and uncooperative motorists, National Institute of Emergency Medicine secretary-general Anucha Setthasathian said. Anucha revealed the startling statistic on January after a ...
