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Kashmir: The colonised have become the colonisers. Kashmir, a distant dream now. India, no longer a beacon of Asia
The West Bank. Gaza. Xinjiang. Modern-day concentration camps. Is the 12.5 million strong, majority Muslim, northern Indian state of Jammu and Kas...
High Speed Rail: Liquidated Damages at 10% of Contract Value
Liquidated damages at 10% of the contract price of the subcontract are unusually high for the contractor’s breach of the main construction contract wh...
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นายณัฏฐพล ทีปสุวรรณ รัฐมนตรีว่าการกระทรวงศึกษาธิการ (ศธ.) เปิดเผยว่า เร็วๆ นี้จะเชิญผู้เกี่ยวข้องมาหารือเกี่ยวกับการสรรหาเลขาธิการคณะกรรมการส่งเสริมสว...
High Speed Rail: Can You Withdraw Your Bid If It’s Too Low?
The answer to the above question is it depends on whether the bidding announcement expressly prohibits withdrawals of bids. A withdrawal would be unfo...
DTAC shouldn’t be a pawn in Telenor’s regional game
Southeast Asia’s telecommunications industry is booming and the opportunities—including for Thailand—are immense. With 70 million people, it happens t...
The delicious melancholy of Vietnam’s Reunification Express: Hanoi to Ho Chi Minh City…in thirty-six hours
In 1936, when the French first launched the “Transindochinois” railway service linking Hanoi with Saigon, there were gala celebrations, sports com...
High Speed Rail: How Your Bid Is Graded Against Others
High Speed Rail: How Your Bid Is Graded Against Others
By Wirot Poonsuwan
The total contract price is the selection criteria. Barring exceptiona...
High Speed Rail: Notarization and Legalization Critical to Foreign Participation
High Speed Rail: Notarization and Legalization Critical to Foreign Participation
By Wirot Poonsuwan
The e-bidding submission date has been set...
Bantar Gebang is the apocalypse: the end of the world will probably look like it Garbage in. Garbage out.
A vast, 120-hectare moonscape of toxic, foul-smelling and suppurating waste; this huge dump (the largest uncovered landfill in Southeast Asia) ser...
Pledge of Deposit: Pledgee Bank Defeated by Other Credit
Several Supreme Court Decisions consistently ruled that a pledge of deposit is not really a pledge and does not offer the pledgee bank a priority righ...
