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Infrastructure plans prioritised
Business, Chatrudee Theparat, Published on 02/01/2018
» With Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha pledging to call a general election some time in 2018 between September and December, the government is likely to be busy revving up the development of myriad big-ticket infrastructure projects.
Pattaya condo market pauses
Business, Published on 23/01/2018
» The Pattaya condominium market has been quite popular in the past seven years, especially between 2011 and 2013 when new unit launches were the highest in the history of the beach resort city in Chon Buri.
Stolen Degas painting found on a bus near Paris
AFP, Published on 23/02/2018
» PARIS - A Degas painting stolen from a museum in Marseille nine years ago has been found on a bus near Paris, the French culture minister said Friday.
Road plan is off the rails
News, Published on 24/02/2018
» In its push to build a new expressway in parallel with the planned Brown Line monorail route in Bangkok, the government does not seem to have come up with a good business case beyond the need to make use of 281 abandoned pillars on the Kaset-Nawamin road -- ghosts from the 1990s. That is not a compelling enough reason.
Pheu Thai alive and kicking in Khon Kaen
News, Published on 24/02/2018
» Khon Kaen has experienced both pros and cons from the rule of the current junta government even though the province is among the key red-shirt bastions of the Northeast.
Snow falls in Rome as Europe hit by icy weather
AFP, Published on 26/02/2018
» ROME - Rome woke to its first snowfall in six years on Monday as chilling winds from Siberia swept across Europe, bringing freezing temperatures that have claimed at least seven lives, disrupted travel and closed schools.
Deadly blizzards lash Europe, poor hardest hit
AFP, Published on 01/03/2018
» PARIS - Heavy snowfall and deadly blizzards lashed Europe Thursday, forcing Geneva's busy airport to close, as the region shivered in a deep freeze that has gripped countries from the far north to Mediterranean beaches in the south.
Sepo says numerous PPP projects on the fast track
Business, Wichit Chantanusornsiri, Published on 08/03/2018
» Nearly half of the 966 billion baht worth of projects under the fast-track public-private partnership (PPP) scheme are expected to win approval from the PPP committee this year, says the head of the State Enterprise Policy Office (Sepo).
Seksan was spot on
News, Postbag, Published on 11/03/2018
» Re "Seksan blasts divisive politics," BP, March 10.
France gears up for next wave of asset sales
AFP, Published on 11/03/2018
» PARIS: French President Emmanuel Macron will be putting his investment banking chops to use in coming weeks as his government prepares a new wave of state asset sales to pay for his "disruptive innovations" fund.