The Ministry of Transport has prepared eight new infrastructure investment projects for implementation next year, with a combined budget of over 100 billion baht.
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China-Laos railway will be completed in 2021
The China-Laos railway is the first overseas route connecting with the railway system in China, using Chinese technology, equipment and investment.
Thailand’s new policies to drive energy transition
Thailand and other Asian countries needs urgently to prepare for the new challenges shaped by energy transition
Beware Of China’s One Belt, One Road
China is pushing nations into projects that threaten to create unsustainable debt burden for those countries.
Govt pledges fairer compensation
For properties of local people impacted and displaced by domestic and foreign investment projects.
China’s Myanmar bonanza sans responsibility
There are still issues waiting to be solved, such as land compensation to communities, safety concerns, and ecological restoration at the project site: activists
Govt faces more EEC challenges than was thought, forum hears
Currently, the high-speed rail project is in its early stages and it is a long-term project whole viability remains questionable, says leading economist.
Belt and Road shields Myanmar from Beijing’s capital crackdown
The sectors targeted by the restriction do not concern investment projects here, which are mostly infrastructure and energy-related.
The Lancang-Mekong cooperation framework: China’s real motivation
There are several reasons why China finally takes part in a cooperation framework with the lower Mekong countries. One of them is allow China to enter a ‘damage control’ diplomacy.
Economists say Vietnam focuses too much on rice exporting
To ensure food security, Mekong Delta only needs to grow 1.5 million hectares of rice and have two instead of three crops