Organisers in the Thai seaside resort of Jomtien are busy preparing for next week’s jet-ski championship tourney. Competition heats for the International Jet Ski World Cup 2014 are scheduled to take place between 5 and 7 December.
Thai carrier Bangkok Airways accepted the first of the nine new aircraft it has on order two days ago. Puttipong Prasarttong-Osoth, the airline’s president, had travelled to Toulouse in France to take delivery of the ATR 72-600 in a formal ceremony staged at the manufacturer’s factory on Wednesday.
Yacht and boating enthusiasts are heading to Phuket this weekend to register for the start of the island’s regatta next week. The southern Thai island’s Kata Beach Resort & Spa is the base for the 28th Phuket King’s Cup Regatta.
Brand new Thai airline NokScoot is scheduled to take delivery of its first aircraft this coming Sunday. The Boeing 777-200 is all ready for delivery and a spokesperson for the low-cost-carrier confirmed that it will receive the aircraft on schedule.
Organisers are busy making the final arrangements for next week’s annual balloon festival in the city of Chiang Mai. The Thailand International Balloon Festival 2014 is scheduled to take place at the northern city’s Gymkhana Sports Club on the 6 and 7 December.
Myanmar’s Department of Civil Aviation (DCA) has announced a new consortium will take over Mandalay Airport. Two Japanese companies have joined forces with a local company to operate the second largest airport in the country for the next 30 years.
Thailand’s government has announced it will endorse a multi-billion Baht budget to improve three of the country’s international airports. Prajin Juntong, the national transport minister, said the lion’s share of the THB93 billion would be used to revamp Suvarnabhumi, the main airport just outside the capital city of Bangkok.
The governor of the Thai city of Khon Kaen told reporters at a press briefing today that its annual cultural extravaganza is set to go ahead as scheduled. Kamthon Thawonsathit said the triple-festival outside the Provincial Hall will commence this Saturday and run through to Wednesday 10 December.
New Taiwanese budget carrier V Air is to launch routes to two destinations in Thailand. The airline is scheduled to begin flying from Taipei International Airport to Don Muang, the second airport serving the Thai capital of Bangkok, on 17 December.
Thailand’s Zoological Park Organisation has ordered Chiang Mai Zoo’s monorail operator to shut down the service and remove all its equipment. The command follows a disagreement over fare structuring for the monorail and trolley-bus services at the zoo.
Authorities in the Thai seaside resort of Pattaya met this week to arrange traffic and crowd control for next month’s new festival. Wonderfruit Festival is a three-day musical and cultural extravaganza scheduled to take place between 19 and 21 December at The Fields at Siam Country Club.
Thailand’s transport minister told reporters yesterday that Bangkok’s Airport Rail Link would be extended to Don Muang Airport. Air-chief-marshal Prajin Juntong said the plan to add a 22km line from Phaya Thai to Don Muang only needed cabinet approval for it to go ahead.
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The Thai national bus company says it will announce the new location of Bangkok’s northern inter-city bus terminal next month. Transport Company director Wuttichat Kanlayanamit said officials are assessing locations and working out the budget needed to relocate the Morchit II Bus Terminal.
Singaporean public transport officials have released a statement saying they will inaugurate the newest station on the network this coming Sunday. Marina South Pier Station is the last and 26th station on the North-South Line and at the end of a one-kilometre line extension from Marina Bay Station.
The Thai government has given the green light for the construction of a road to link one of the country’s northeastern provinces with Luang Prabang. The Thai cabinet decided to allocate the THB1.97 billion needed for the project late last week.
The Cambodian riverside town of Kampot is to get a new pier to enable it to tap into the Southeast Asian passenger cruise market. City-hall director Sim Vuthea said an application had already been submitted to the Asian Development Bank for the necessary US$40 million funding to build the facility.
The Kazakhstan national airline has just released a statement saying it will commence a new route to the Thai capital of Bangkok next month. The new route will see Air Astana fly from its secondary hub at Astana Airport to Bangkok and back twice a week with effect from 15 December.
Thai Immigration Department officials are set to cancel the visas of almost 200 foreign nationals. The department’s Chartchai Saengiam said the individuals concerned had colluded with a corrupt local government officer in registering sham marriages to enable them to stay longer in the country.
Bangkok Airways has just opened revamped domestic passenger lounges at two of its principal airports. The Thai carrier’s ground services director, Tresarun Sitakalin, told media sources that lounges at Suvarnabhumi Airport in Bangkok and Chiang Mai Airport had undergone makeovers to make them more inviting for passengers.