Artikel tagged “concession”

  • Compromise could save expressway authority from paying exorbitant compensation

    Compromise could save expressway authority from paying exorbitant compensation

    PHOTO: YouTube Thailand’s Expressway Authority (EXAT) board has agreed to extend the concession period of NECL, a subsidiary of Bangkok Expressway and Metro Public Company (BEM), to operate two expressways for an additional thirty years. The hope is they can avert a legal battle which could eventually result in the government authority being ordered to pay as much as 130 billion baht compensation to NECL

  • Land protest in Krabi over 7,712 rai of land

    Land protest in Krabi over 7,712 rai of land

    A group of more than 100 Krabi farmers gathered at the Krabi Provincial Hall to protest against alleged corrupt land officers and privately-owned palm garden that they claim encroaches 7,712 rai of forest land. The protest yesterday (February 8) was led by Yokin Khamwong who handed a letter to Krabi’s Governor calling for an investigation on the concession land of a palm oil plantation which belongs to Thai Palm Oil and Palm Plantation Industry Company Limited located in Plaipraya District saying that the company has encroached the forest land nearby