One Bangkok and SCG sign MOU for collaboration on sustainable construction management towards circular economy to be implemented at the largest private sector property development in Thailand
Category: Thailand
Making a push for green cover
According to the Bangkok Metropolitan Administration, Bangkok has 6.99m² of green space for each person, which is less than the minimum of 9m² recommended by the World Health Organization.
Endangered species are paying the price of COVID-19
For months, we’ve been researching the uptick in logging and poaching, which are gradually emptying out the forests here in Cambodia as well as neighboring Vietnam, Laos, Thailand, and Myanmar. And for communities on the edges of wildlife-rich forests, exploiting these resources is increasingly a matter of survival.
Super set to build hybrid power plant
The 2-billion-baht project has an installed power generation capacity of 49 megawatts from an on-ground solar farm, with back-up power from a 1MW biogas-fired power plant and a 136MW-hour energy storage system. It’s claimed to have the largest capacity in Southeast Asia for a hybrid renewable power plant.
Complaints hit northern rail projects
The Den Chai-Chiang Khong project, valued at 72.9 billion baht, is made up of three construction contracts while the northeastern Ban Phai-Nakhon Phanom route, worth 55.4 billion baht, has been split into two contracts.
Green peafowl flourish in Thailand’s northern forests, but conflict looms
Green peafowl (Pavo muticus) are thought to occur across 16% of their former range in mainland Southeast Asia, confined to a handful of isolated forests by a legacy of forest habitat loss, overhunting, and conflict with humans.
Ministry tells Ming Dih Co to relocate following Monday’s massive explosion and fire
“If the company wants to resume operations, it will [have to relocate] to an industrial estate and follow the industrial rules.”
Artist highlights the scourge of plastic pollution
Visitors can interact by putting a capsule of plastic waste in a water tank. Each capsule has a different form of plastic found in everyday life as well as in the ocean. When a capsule of plastic waste is dropped into the tank, the water begins to move and flow, creating a whirlpool. The stronger the whirlpool, the greater the volume of that plastic waste in the sea.
How e-mobility can power Thailand to net zero
The first country in Southeast Asia to offer incentives to electric vehicle manufacturers and tax reductions on sales of their cars, Thailand is imagining itself as an electric vehicle hub.
New Unesco heritage bid for forest site
The country’s largest national park, Kaeng Krachan Forest Complex, covers 2.9-million rai tacross Ratchaburi, Phetchaburi and Prachuap Khiri Khan provinces, Designation has been rejected three times in part due to human rights violations against Karen villagers.