Artist's impression of Purple Line train
 
 
 

The joint venture of Ch Karnchang Plc and Japan’s Tokyu Construction yesterday won the bid to build a 12-kilometre electric train line linking Bangkok to neighbouring Nonthaburi province.

CKTC Joint Venture of Ch Karnchang and Tokyu Construction bid some 16.72 billion baht for the first part of Bangkok’s 36-billion-baht “Purple Line” mass transit project while the closest contender, Sino-Thai Engineering and Construction Plc, quoted at 17.1 billion baht and Italian-Thai Development Plc at almost 17.92 billion baht.
The tender won by CKTC Joint Venture is the first …

PM Abhisit
 

The Cabinet yesterday approved a 115-billion-baht supplementary budget for urgent economic stimulus measures, aiming mainly at lessening economic hardship and encouraging the spending among low-income earners.
The supplementary budget will be allocated to finance 18 projects among concerned ministries as the finer details of the budget will be submitted to the Cabinet on January 20 for consideration, before being forward to the Parliament for approval on January 28.
Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva said after the Cabinet meeting that the disbursement of the mid-year fiscal budget is expected to start in March …

Prasert Bunsumpun (right), chief executive officer and president of PTT Plc, is seen signing the MoU with Alfredo Pires (left), the secretary of state for natural resources of Timor-Leste, which was witnessed by Prime Minister Abhisit and President of Timor-Leste Jose Ramos Horta (standing left).
Thailand’s oil and gas conglomerate PTT Plc yesterday signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) on energy development with Timor-Leste’s Ministry of Natural Resources in a bid to cooperate on energy development with the Southeast Asian republic.

PTT, on behalf of the country’s energy firm, will also provide …

Ruling Democrat Party and its coalition partners won 20 out of 29 parliamentary seats in the by-election in 22 provinces throughout Thailand yesterday.
Democrat Party candidates won a total of seven seats, one each in Bangkok, Nakhon Pathom Province, Ratchaburi Province, Lamphun Province, Samut Prakarn Province, Saraburi Province and Singburi Province. Its partners Chart Thai Pattana Party got ten seats while Puea Pandin Party  three seats.
Meanwhile, two opposition parties, Puea Thai Party and Pracharaj Party, won five and four seats respectively.
However, one of the successful candidate of Pracharaj Party was …

Bangkok City Hall
More than 900,000 eligible voters in Bangkok today elected M.R.Sukhumbhand Paribatra of Democrat Party to become the governor of Thailand’s capital city.
The Bangkok governor election was organised by the Election Commission (EC) to replace Apirak Kosayodhin, also from Democrat Party, whom had been re-elected for his second four-year term last October but decided to resign a month later after the National Counter Corruption Commission announced to press charges against Apirak and 10 other persons implicated in alleged irregularities in Bangkok Metropolitan Administration’s fire truck and boat purchase scheme.
According …

Born:               22 September 1952
Birthplace:     Bangkok
Father:           Prince Sukhumbhinanda
Mother:          Mom Dusadee Paribatra  
Spouse:          Sawitree (Pamornbutr) Paribatra  
Children:       M.L.Pinitbhand Paribatra (M) and M.L.Varabhinand Paribatra (M)
Education:    Bachelor’s and Master’s Degrees in Philosophy, Politics and Economics (PPE), Second-Class honours, Pembroke College, Oxford University, UK;
                       Master’s Degree in International Relations, Georgetown University, USA
Professional Experience:
– Visiting professor at Columbia University, New York, and Georgetown University, Washington DC;