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AIIB keen on Land Bridge investment
Business, Wichit Chantanusornsiri, Published on 29/05/2025
» The Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) has expressed interest in investing in Thailand's Land Bridge project, describing it as beneficial for both Southeast Asia and East Asia, according to Deputy Finance Minister Julapun Amornvivat.
Second runway for U-Tapao
News, Post Reporters, Published on 11/09/2024
» The U-Tapao Rayong-Pattaya International Airport plans to begin construction of its second runway this year.
China: Benefactor or imperial menace?
Oped, Published on 06/09/2024
» Since the start of the 21st century, China has shown its desire to recapture its previous position as the world's most powerful and influential nation. Centuries ago, China -- going by the name of the "Middle Kingdom" -- was the world's most influential nation until Western European countries arrived on the shores of the Chinese empire in the early 16th century.
Follow the science
Oped, Postbag, Published on 06/02/2024
» Re: "Don't fault African nations for producing more oil", (Opinion, Feb 2).
Beijing bank may finance megaproject
Mongkol Bangprapa, Published on 04/02/2024
» The China-led Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) is interested in financing Thailand's Land Bridge megaproject, says Prime Minister Srettha Thavisin.
AIIB serves China's Communist Party: Canadian former executive
AFP, Published on 15/06/2023
» TOKYO - China's ruling Communist Party dominates the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank and uses it to further its interests, a former executive has alleged in claims that prompted Canada to suspend participation in the institution.
How the West should engage China
News, Published on 06/06/2022
» The world order is at risk of a lasting split, with the United States and its allies on one side, and China and its partners on the other. As US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen noted at an Atlantic Council event last month, this outcome is far from desirable, and the US must work with China to prevent it. But, practically in her next breath, Yellen advocated actions that could thwart such an effort.
Govt told to balance superpower relations
News, Mongkol Bangprapa, Published on 07/03/2022
» The president of the Council for Peace and Asian Reconciliation is urging the government to balance its relations with China and the United States for the good of the kingdom.
China's path to net zero
Asia focus, Published on 07/12/2020
» China is aiming to halt the rise in its carbon dioxide emissions before 2030 and to achieve carbon neutrality before 2060. If it succeeds, the country will have gone, in less than 40 years, from being the world's largest CO2 emitter to bringing its emissions into balance.
The AIIB's transparency deficit
Asia focus, Published on 02/11/2020
» The Beijing-based Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) opened for business in 2016 and rapidly established itself as a major multilateral development institution. It aims to become the world's leading financier of large-scale infrastructure by 2021. But the bank first needs to raise its game regarding timely public disclosure of its projects' environmental and social risks.