February 27, 2015 | Editor's Note
Rapid population growth, along with accelerated urbanisation and industrialisation in Southeast Asia, has put tremendous pressure on the region’s depleting freshwater resources. Water utilities are also finding it difficult to...
Read MoreFebruary 27, 2015 | Lao People's Democratic Republic (PDR)
Laos, along with Malaysia, Singapore and Thailand, has held talks to consider a plan for export of electricity to Singapore through transmission lines in Malaysia and Thailand. Malaysia has pledged to take the responsibility for...
Read MoreFebruary 27, 2015 | Thailand
Thailand’s cabinet has approved eight draft laws that effectively take away the powers of the National Broadcasting and Telecommunications Commission (NBTC) to assign and manage mobile frequencies. These powers are now vested in...
Read MoreFebruary 27, 2015 | Vietnam
The Vietnamese government has approved the funding of the power infrastructure strengthening project in Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City. The project will be funded through loans worth $273 million from the ADB and the Asian...
Read MoreFebruary 27, 2015 | Vietnam
Construction work on a civil-cum-military airport in the south-central province of Binh Thuan has begun. The project, which is expected to cost 5.6 trillion dong, will be commissioned in 2018. The 543 hectare airport will have...
Read MoreFebruary 27, 2015 | Vietnam
US-based Bechtel Corporation has shown interest in undertaking the Hon Khoai port project. The transport minister has asked Bechtel to consider the project viability as the region already has a port – Duyen Hai – catering to...
Read MoreFebruary 27, 2015 | Vietnam
Construction work on the 7.6 trillion dong Bach Dang Bridge has commenced. The bridge is expected to reduce the distance from the capital to the world heritage site from 180 km to 130 km. The bridge will cover a length of 5.4 km...
Read MoreFebruary 27, 2015 | Vietnam
The last stretch of the Ho Chi Minh City-Long Thanh-Dau Giay expressway was commissioned on February 8, 2015. The four-lane expressway allows vehicles to travel at a speed of up to 120 km per hour, the highest in the country....
Read MoreFebruary 27, 2015 | Vietnam
State-owned EVN transmission subsidiary National Power Transmission Corporation (EVN NPT) plans to spend VND 19.5 trillion in 2015 on transmission projects to improve the supply of electricity in the country’s southern region....
Read MoreFebruary 27, 2015 | Thailand
The Ministry of Transport in Thailand is likely to undertake the fifth Thai-Lao Friendship Bridge, for which it intends to initiate discussions with the Lao PDR government for financing the project. The design work for the fifth...
Read MoreFebruary 27, 2015 | Thailand
The Thailand government is likely to sign an MoU with Japan on the $60 billion Dawei mega project. In this regard, the Japanese government is expected to offer soft loans for construction of a 138 km road linking Dawei and the...
Read MoreFebruary 27, 2015 | Thailand
The Ministry of Transport has tentatively decided to begin construction of the first standard gauge railway in Thailand in September 2015. The project is being undertaken in cooperation with China. The scope of works involves...
Read MoreFebruary 27, 2015 | Thailand
The Thailand government is planning to commence work on Phase I of the 400 billion baht port-rail project in September 2015. The project involves the construction of a rail line of over 700 km to augment connectivity between...
Read MoreFebruary 27, 2015 | Thailand
ADB will provide a loan of $55 million and an additional $30 million from its Clean Technology Fund to Chaiyaphum Wind Farm Company Limited for the development of an 81 MW wind power project in Thailand. The company is a special...
Read MoreFebruary 27, 2015 | Thailand
PTT is expected to conclude discussions with US-based Anadarko Petroleum Corporation for the purchase of 1.5 mtpa of LNG from the latter’s export facility in Mozambique. Apart from Anadarko, PTT is also holding discussions with...
Read MoreFebruary 27, 2015 | Singapore
The Thailand government is looking to reduce its dependence on Myanmar for gas. At present, Myanmar supplies about one-fourth of Thailand’s gas demand. However, Myanmar is currently experiencing a surge in domestic natural gas...
Read MoreFebruary 27, 2015 | Singapore
Singapore port handled 33.9 million TEUs of container traffic during 2014 while the world’s top container port at Shanghai reportedly handled about 35.2 million TEUs in 2014. During 2013, the gap between the two ports was about...
Read MoreFebruary 27, 2015 | Singapore
Singapore’s aviation market grew by 0.75 per cent during 2014. The slow growth is largely attributed to capacity adjustments by its struggling low-cost carrier (LCC) sector. Singapore’s LCC penetration rate, which increased...
Read MoreFebruary 27, 2015 | Singapore
Ezra Holdings Limited, a Singapore-based contractor and provider of integrated offshore solutions to the oil and gas industry, has announced that the group’s wholly owned subsidiary, London Marine Consultants (LMC), Ezra’s...
Read MoreFebruary 27, 2015 | Uncategorized
DOTC has awarded the PhP 2.5 billion contract for the Southwest terminal of the integrated transport system to MWM Terminals, a JV of Megawide Construction Corporation and WM Property Management, Inc. The contract has been...
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