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Published on January 4, 2008

Since last November, the ferry service has connected the resort island of Langkawi with southern Thailand's Trang and Koh Lipe.

Bernama News Agency recently quoted Mahsuri managing director Che Isa Aji as saying the ferry service would be increasingly popular, because many Thais and foreign tourists holidaying in Phuket used it to visit Langkawi.

He said the company provided two ferries for the service, each able to carry 131 passengers. A one-way trip takes 45 minutes and costs 95 ringgit (Bt1,000) per passenger.

The first ferry leaves Kuah, Malaysia, for Trang at 9am and returns at 4pm.

About 95 per cent of the ferry passengers are non-Malaysians.

Firm to prospect for tungsten in North

Canada-based Amanta Resources was recently granted a special prospecting licence (SPL) to mine high-grade tungsten in Chiang Rai province.

The five-year contract gives the company the exclusive right to apply for a mining licence covering an area of about 14 square kilometres at Mae Chedi.

With the issue of the SPL, Amanta has now acquired 100-per-cent interests in three former tungsten mines, at Mae Chedi, Mae Lama and Doi Ngam.

These properties hosted some of Thailand's more prolific, high-grade tungsten mines prior to the collapse of world tungsten prices in the mid-1980s, which forced many of the world's tungsten producers to close.

The Nation