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Ocean’s Edge wins in London
Pattaya’s Ocean’s Edge luxury beachfront condominium has won the Gold award
for Best Apartment, Thailand at the Homes Overseas Magazine 2007 Property
Awards in London on Monday, December 3.
 Andrew
Neely, right, accepts the “Best Apartment, Thailand” Gold Award at the Homes
Overseas Magazine 2007 Property Awards in London, Monday, December 3.
Held this year at the exclusive Royal Garden Hotel, Kensington, this
ceremony was organised by Globespan Media UK, and sponsored by Barclays
Bank.
Homes Overseas Magazine is the United Kingdom’s leading international
property magazine, in circulation since 1965. Headline sponsored by Barclays
Bank PLC and supported by the Association of International Property
Professionals, the annual awards are a showcase for the industry.
Mr. Paul Owen CEO of the AIPP, said: “The AIPP exists to improve standards
of professionalism in the international property market. Award ceremonies
exist to celebrate excellence. It’s an obvious match, but we have still
undergone an assessment process before lending our name to the Awards. We
are confident that the Homes Overseas Awards’ insistence on site visits
gives their process credibility and independence”.
Ms. Suzanne Clay, European Business Development Manager for Barclays said:
“Barclays actively seeks to promote excellence within the industry and help
showcase the best properties available to UK buyers and the Homes Overseas
Awards is a great way of doing this”.
Ocean’s Edge was visited by a member of the independent judging panel from
the United Kingdom in October and was examined on a wide range of criteria,
creating a benchmark from which to compare with other developments, and to
ultimately decide on whether rigorous standards had been achieved. An award
would not be presented if the required standard had not been met.
The project developers were therefore delighted when they were presented
with the highest recognition possible, the Gold Award, for Best Apartment,
Thailand. There was no silver award, but congratulations also go to
Northpoint Condominium for receiving the Bronze Award.
In his acceptance speech, Andrew Neely, from Ocean’s Edge, thanked Globespan
Media, and their sponsors Barclays and AIPP, for a thoroughly professional
awards process and superbly organised ceremony and luncheon. He also thanked
everyone in Thailand who had made such a massive contribution to the
project.
Thailand OKs building
3rd Thai-Laos Friendship Bridge
The Thai Cabinet last week gave a green light to a draft
agreement on the construction of the third Thai-Laos Friendship Bridge across
the Mekong River, connecting Thailand’s Nakhon Phanom and the Lao province of
Khammoune.
The pact between the two countries is expected to be signed by the end of
December 2007, with financing to be provided by the Thai government.
The two parties will set up a committee to coordinate the planning, policies and
project administration.
According to Thai Ministry of Commerce’s figures of the two countries’ border
trade, from January through September 2007, Thailand imported goods from Laos
worth almost Bt1.5 billion and Thailand’s exports to Laos were valued at more
than Bt30 billion.
Linking the Lao province of Savannakhet with northeastern Thailand’s Mukdahan
province the second Thai-Lao Friendship Bridge, which opened in December last
year, is boosting economic development and facilitating transportation, trade,
investment, and tourism, not only between Thailand and Laos, but also with
central Vietnam.
The first Thai-Lao Friendship Bridge over the Mekong linking the Thai province
of Nong Khai and the Lao PDR capital of Vientiane was opened in 1994. (TNA)
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