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NBTC seeks B53bn from sale of 5G licences
Bloomberg News, Published on 14/05/2019
» The National Broadcasting & Telecommunications Commission (NBTC) plans to sell three 700 megahertz spectrum licences for a total of about 53 billion baht as part of an effort to develop fifth-generation wireless services.
Thailand tilts towards Chinese-style internet controls
Bloomberg News, Published on 15/04/2019
» HONG KONG: A swathe of the world is adopting China’s vision for a tightly controlled internet over the unfettered American approach, a stunning ideological coup for Beijing that would have been unthinkable less than a decade ago.
Risk of political disarray stalks economy as vote nears
Bloomberg News, Published on 17/03/2019
» A high-speed train that glides from an expanded coastal airport handling 60 million passengers toward cavernous new stations in Bangkok. An infrastructure blitz that takes Thailand’s economy to new heights.
UK has first coal-free day since 1880s
Bloomberg News, Published on 22/04/2017
» The United Kingdom had its first full day without burning coal to make electricity since the Industrial Revolution more than a century ago, according to grid operator National Grid Plc.
Singapore to levy SE Asia's first carbon tax
Bloomberg News, Published on 21/02/2017
» Singapore plans to implement Southeast Asia’s first carbon tax by 2019, a move that would raise energy costs in the island nation and require more than 30 big polluters such as power plants to pay the levy.
Solar power now cheaper than coal in some parts
Business, Bloomberg News, Published on 04/01/2017
» LONDON/NEW YORK - Solar power is now cheaper than coal in some parts of the world. In less than a decade, it is likely to be the lowest-cost option almost everywhere.
Global funds sell off Thai bonds
Bloomberg News, Published on 17/10/2016
» KUALA LUMPUR - Global funds sold a record US$1 billion of Thai bonds last week as the passing of King Bhumibol Adulyadej was seen as the loss of a stabilising influence in the nation’s political landscape.
PTT Exploration faces class action lawsuit over 2009 oil spill
Bloomberg News, Published on 03/08/2016
» SYDNEY - PTT Exploration & Production Plc, Thailand’s biggest publicly listed oil and natural gas explorer, is facing A$200 million (US$152 million) class action lawsuit from 13,000 Indonesian seaweed farmers who claim a 2009 oil spill devastated their livelihoods.
As El Niño exits, La Niña looms
Bloomberg News, Published on 23/05/2016
» BOSTON — Think of it as Mother Nature's roller-coaster ride: the shift between the weather patterns known as El Niño and La Niña that, at their worst, can cause havoc worldwide.
Mekong water crisis compounded by rice-killing drought
Bloomberg News, Published on 19/04/2016
» HANOI -- The 3.6 hectares in southern Vietnam that double as rice paddy and shrimp pond for farmer Nguyen Thi Tam have become a wasteland. After the worst drought in 90 years, almost nothing grows.