REGIONAL EXPANSION: Far Eastern Electronic Toll Collection Co has tasked a subsidiary with running trials abroad, with one including an e-wallet app, the firm saidBy Shelley Shan / Staff reporter
Far Eastern Electronic Toll Collection Co would on Wednesday next week sign a contract with BGSR Consortium to jointly build an electronic toll collection system on Thailand’s M6 and M81 highways.
It would be the first time that Far Eastern exports the technology and service to one of the 18 countries included in the government’s New Southbound Policy, the company said.
The two highways, which are part of a 20-year development plan by the Thai government, have a total length of 330km, the company said.
The M6 connects central Thailand with the northeastern region, while the M81 connects the west of the
5 to See: Digital Shows
From Taipei to Istanbul, these shows deal with themes of empathy, common perception and communication across borders. Experience global art and culture this winter with
Aestheticaâs selection of five must-see online exhibitions.
, Taipei Fine Arts Museum
This yearâs Taipei Biennial, co-curated by philosopher Bruno Latour, explores the increasingly fractured ways in which different cultures experience ideas of the global â whether they conceive of the world on ecological, economic or nationalist terms, for example â and the need to resolve these differences in an era of gathering ecological catastrophe. For Latour and his collaborator, curator Martin Guinard, âit is as if there were several versions of Earth, with properties and capacities that are so different that they are like distinctive planets.â The physical exhibition takes the form of a âplanetariumâ, with different sections conceptualised as different versio