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PM aims to discuss subs with German president
News, Wassana nanuam and Aekarach Sattaburuth, Published on 14/09/2023
» Prime Minister Srettha Thavisin plans to meet Germany's president, Frank-Walter Steinmeier, in an effort to get Berlin to allow Thailand to install German engines on the kingdom's new submarines that are being assembled in China.
Shoddy army purchases
News, Postbag, Published on 18/12/2022
» Re: "Navy still unsure about China sub engine," (BP, Dec 16).
Guinea pig offering
News, Postbag, Published on 18/09/2022
» Re: "Tests on new sub engine 'completed'," (BP, Sept 16).
Subs deal at risk: PM
News, Wassana Nanuam, Published on 05/04/2022
» A huge government-to-government submarine procurement deal faces the axe, if China is unable to fit the engines specified in the purchase agreement, warned Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha on Monday.
Needs must not
News, Postbag, Published on 13/03/2022
» Re: "Japan prepares to provide $500m soft loan," (Business, March 11).
China told it must honour subs deal
News, Wassana Nanuam, Published on 04/03/2022
» The Royal Thai Navy insists China has to honour an agreement to supply it with a new submarine with a German-made MTU 396 engine, adding the navy will do its best to ensure the procurement is completed.
China offers Navy two subs as purchase deal hits snag
News, Wassana Nanuam, Published on 07/02/2022
» Navy chief Adm Somprasong Nilsamai on Sunday confirmed that China made an informal offer to provide the Thai navy with two used submarines to train staff while waiting for the first of its order of Chinese-made submarines to be delivered.
There have probably been better years
News, Roger Crutchley, Published on 26/12/2021
» Well we've just about scraped through the Year of the Ox. It was a strange time, rather like living in a vacuum, not entirely sure what would happen next. Nothing could have been worse than 2020, but 2021 wasn't far off. At the start of the year there was hope that the cloud of Covid could be shaken off and we would all become happy folks in the Land of Smiles again, but it didn't quite work out that way -- it's the hope that kills you.
Fate of two subs in balance
News, Wassana Nanuam, Published on 28/07/2021
» The fate of two of three submarines hangs in the balance now that next year's instalment payment for them has been shelved.