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Move to set up educational institutes that can develop manpower for EEC
Thailand’s higher-education sector is shifting gears towards the future – setting sights on new engines of growth as well as the much-vaunted Eastern Economic Corridor (EEC).“We will have to prepare courses that respond to the development of target industries in the EEC,” Office of Higher ...
Chularat Saengpassa
EEC Office ordered to study province expansion
The Industry Ministry has ordered the Eastern Economic Corridor (EEC) Office to conduct a feasibility study for expanding the EEC into new provinces to further drive investment demand in the industrial sector. The plan is to expand into surrounding provinces. The corridor spans 110,168 rai ...
Lamonphet Apisitniran
EEC threat to water resources
The risk of water scarcity is looming in the East, thanks mainly to a boom in industrial development in the Eastern Economic Corridor (EEC). Experts have been expressing concerns that the rising demand for water in the three EEC provinces – Chon Buri, Rayong and ...
Pratch Rujivanarom
NLA panel gives nod to land tax bill
A bill on a land and buildings tax, that was stuck in a National Legislative Assembly (NLA) standing committee for more than a year, has finally won the panel’s approval and is expected to go before lawmakers for a second reading within two weeks.Keep reading ...
Wichit Chantanusornsiri
Thailand Board of Investment's Incentive Schemes Set to Support Infrastructure Development for EEC
To drive concrete development of the Eastern Economic Corridor (EEC), Thailand’s Board of Investment (BOI) has recently approved investment incentive scheme for the bidding winners of U-Tapao Airport’s Passenger Terminal 3 and Digital Park Thailand (EECd) development projects, two among six major development projects in ...
Land titles for certain plots being revoked, says minister
Natural Resources and Environment Minister General Surasak Karnjanarat told reporters yesterday (Oct 30) that the Land Department was in the process of revoking the land-rights documents for privately owned plots in Phetchabun that are encroaching on forestland. Keep reading ...
The Nation Reporter
4 EEC projects worth B470bn get nod
The cabinet has endorsed four infrastructure investment projects worth a combined 470 billion baht under the government’s flagship Eastern Economic Corridor (EEC) scheme. The projects were approved by the EEC Policy Committee on Oct 4 and endorsed at a mobile cabinet meeting on Tuesday in ...
Patpon Sabpaitoon
Thammasat confirms Pattaya budget
Thammasat University has finalised the 5-billion-baht budget to develop infrastructure on its Pattaya campus in Chon Buri, supplementing the government’s Eastern Economic Corridor (EEC) scheme. Keep reading ...
Lamonphet Apisitniran
China plans to deepen EEC focus
CHINA plans to further invest in the Eastern Economic Corridor (EEC) and the country’s agricultural technology as part of its effort to support the Thailand 4.0 policy while furthering its own One Belt, One Road (OBOR) initiative.China is committed to facilitating a strong partnership with ...
Phuwit Limviphuwat
Thammasat programme to furnish EEC with workers
Thammasat University is keen on raising undergraduate student quality to prepare graduates for work in the government’s Eastern Economic Corridor (EEC) scheme. Yesterday (Oct 18) the university signed a memorandum of understanding with the Federation of Thai Industries (FTI) to develop many EEC-related fields: innovation, ...
Lamonphet Apisitniran