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Development in Koh Rong, Indonesian capital to be relocated in first half of 2024, and new Bangkok canal park opens.
Welcome to the last Future Southeast Asia newsletter for 2021. It’s also my last week in Bangkok for this trip, so this is the last of the articles in Bangkok Feature Month.
This week’s article is a summary of metro lines under construction in Bangkok. There are three new lines under construction (2 monorails and a metro line), and to see each line I went to where they will junction with established lines. Unfortunately, it appears that most of the new lines won’t have an integrated interchange, so this will need to be featured in another article.
I’m writing annual updates for transit systems in major cities of Southeast Asia (here is the HCMC 2021 report), so hopefully the Bangkok 2022 report includes the opening of new lines.
Latest Posts At Future Southeast Asia
Bangkok Urban Rail Transit Update – 2021 Edition
Bangkok construction update – 2021 edition (updated)
I posted this article last week to push it out the door before 2021 ended. Since then I’ve doubled the post with more updates from my wanders around the city. For example, here is a better photo of what EmSphere on Sukhumvit Road looks like.
I visited the Chong Nonsi Canal Park just before it opened. It’s a great improvement on what was there before, but do not go stand up paddling as this advertisement suggests!
And here is a glimpse of the world’s largest parliament building (overtaking Ceaușescu’s Palace of the Parliament in Bucharest).
News
🇰🇭 Cambodia
Authorities start sealing off land for project in Koh Rong city
Vietnam provides $25mn to build National Assembly of Cambodia's new administrative building
🇮🇩 Indonesia
National capital to be relocated in first half of 2024: ministry
[Updated: New Capital City of Indonesia]
Indonesia’s $6bn airport bid to rival Singapore raises eyebrows
Archaeologists: Tram rail in the oldest Dutch heritage MRT project in Indonesia
Indonesia begins building new hospital to develop Bali into global medical tourism destination
🇱🇦 Laos
Laos-China railway project to be profitable after 23 years
[Updated: China-Laos railway]
Construction of city’s tallest building to resume
“Construction of Latsavong Plaza, which houses a five-star shopping mall and a hotel and is said to be the tallest building in Laos, is to resume after the contractor ran into financial difficulties in 2016 and work came to a halt.”
[Updated: Future Vientiane]
🇲🇾 Malaysia
First S'pore-Malaysia meeting on Iskandar zone held since 2017
🇵🇭 Philippines
Tugade: MRT-7 on track for completion, starts operation in 4Q2022
🇹🇭 Thailand
New Bangkok canal park opens — or at least its first stretch
Transport agencies working on making Bangkok Venice of the East again
EMV cards for Thai trains, boats, buses and expressways to be launched in March 2022
Coronavirus: as Omicron rages, Chinese buyers offer hope to Thailand’s property market
🇻🇳 Vietnam
“Vietnam has finished building 1,163 km (723 miles) of expressways and is expected to have 916 km more by 2023.”
MoT urges to soon select competent agency for two Southern railway projects
Vietnam says no to proposal to import 37 used train cars from Japan
Việt Nam has nearly 223,000 expired vehicles, most of them remain on road
Vietnam's first homegrown EVs go on sale in milestone for VinFast
Chinese-Vietnamese families refuse to vacate century old apartments in Saigon’s Chinatown