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        "msgid": "bangkok-subway-deal-signed-1447893297",
        "date": "1997-12-17 00:00:00",
        "title": "Bangkok subway deal signed",
        "author": null,
        "source": "AFP",
        "tags": null,
        "topic": null,
        "summary": "Bangkok subway deal signed BANGKOK (AFP): Thai authorities have appointed a foreign-led consortium to oversee the building of a long-awaited subway system, a report said yesterday. Bangkok's Metropolitan Rapid Transit Authority (MRTA) signed a 1.28 billion baht (US$26.7 million) consultancy contract with U.S.-based Louis Berger International Inc. to oversee the project, the Bangkok Post said.",
        "content": "<p>Bangkok subway deal signed<\/p>\n<p>BANGKOK (AFP): Thai authorities have appointed a foreign-led<br>\nconsortium to oversee the building of a long-awaited subway<br>\nsystem, a report said yesterday.<\/p>\n<p>Bangkok's Metropolitan Rapid Transit Authority (MRTA) signed a<br>\n1.28 billion baht (US$26.7 million) consultancy contract with<br>\nU.S.-based Louis Berger International Inc. to oversee the<br>\nproject, the Bangkok Post said.<\/p>\n<p>Under the deal, the company will lead a consortium of seven<br>\nfirms in supervising the construction of the northern section of<br>\nBangkok's subway system, long touted as a solution to the Thai<br>\ncapital's traffic woes.<\/p>\n<p>The contract had been delayed for months due to negotiations<br>\nover additional costs resulting from the devaluation of the baht,<br>\nwhich has lost about 47 percent of its value since being floated<br>\nin July.<\/p>\n<p>The entire cost of the construction of the lines for the two-<br>\nline network is expected to come to 52 billion baht (US$1.1<br>\nbillion), according to the MRTA.<\/p>",
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