Thailand to seek public support, foreign investors for landbridge project: official

STORY: Thailand to seek public support, foreign investors for landbridge project: official SHOOTING TIME: Jan. 22-23, 2024 DATELINE: Jan. 25, 2024 LENGTH: 00:02:44 LOCATION: RANONG, Thailand CATEGORY: ECONOMY SHOTLIST: 1. various of press conference by government spokesperson Chai Wacharonke 2. various of Thai Prime Minister Srettha Thavisin chairing a cabinet meeting 3. various of Thai Prime Minister Srettha visiting the planned building site of the landbridge project 4. promotion video of the landbridge project produced by the Thai government 5. archive footage of the manufacturing sectors of Thailand 6. archive footage of operation in Thailand's largest port Laem Chabang STORYLINE: The Thai government will continue to seek foreign investors and public support for a landbridge project linking the Pacific and Indian Ocean, a government spokesperson said on Tuesday. "After thoroughly researching pertinent data, we are currently working on ensuring understanding for both potential investors and the invo

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(240123) -- RANONG, Jan. 23, 2024 (Xinhua) -- Thailand's Prime Minister Srettha Thavisin chairs a cabinet meeting in Thailand's southern Ranong province on Jan. 23, 2024. The Thai government will continue to seek foreign investors and public support for a landbridge project linking the Pacific and Indian Ocean, a government spokesperson said on Tuesday. (Xinhua/Lin Hao)

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THAILAND-RANONG-PRIME MINISTER-LANDBRIDGE

(240123) -- RANONG, Jan. 23, 2024 (Xinhua) -- Thailand's Prime Minister Srettha Thavisin addresses the media after chairing a cabinet meeting in Thailand's southern Ranong province on Jan. 23, 2024. The Thai government will continue to seek foreign investors and public support for a landbridge project linking the Pacific and Indian Ocean, a government spokesperson said on Tuesday. (Xinhua/Lin Hao)

Australian gov't rules out canceling Chinese firm's lease of Port of Darwin

STORY: Australian gov't rules out canceling Chinese firm's lease of Port of Darwin DATELINE: Oct. 21, 2023 LENGTH: 00:00:48 LOCATION: Canberra CATEGORY: ECONOMY SHOTLIST: 1. various of Port of Darwin 2. various of the Northern Territory Government announcing the 99-year lease agreement for Darwin Port in 2015 STORYLINE: The Australian government has announced it will not cancel a Chinese company's lease of the Port of Darwin. The Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet on Friday announced that, following a review, it decided it was "not necessary to vary or cancel" the Landbridge Group's 99-year lease of the port in the capital of the Northern Territory (NT). The Landbridge Group, a Chinese firm, in 2015 signed a deal with the government of the NT to lease the port following a bidding process. Shortly after winning power in 2022, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese instructed his department to review the lease. The review, which took advice from government departments and security agencies,

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(231010) -- BEIJING, Oct. 10, 2023 (Xinhua) -- This photo taken on June 7, 2017 shows the eastern terminal of the new Eurasia landbridge in Lianyungang, east China's Jiangsu Province. In 2013, China proposed the idea of building an "economic belt along the Silk Road" in Kazakhstan, which, combined with the proposal of the 21st Century Maritime Silk Road, eventually became the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI). The China-Kazakhstan (Lianyungang) logistics cooperation base, launched in 2014, is the first entity project under the BRI. Acting as a dry port in the Horgos-Eastern Gate special economic zone and the Western China-Western Europe international transport corridor, it has become an important platform for products from Central Asian countries to reach seaports. (Photo by Wang Jianmin/Xinhua)