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Bangkok beauty: BMA fails city by erasing Mahakan
News, Sirinya Wattanasukchai, Published on 19/01/2018
» A day before Italian photographer Jan Daga opened his exhibition on the doomed Mahakan community at a Bangkok venue, I asked him when he planned to visit the struggling neighbourhood so I could also attend, but he appeared reluctant to venture back there.
City street eats not made for ordinary folk
News, Sirinya Wattanasukchai, Published on 04/01/2018
» Jubilation for "street food" restaurant owner Jay Fai, who earned a prestigious Michelin Star last month, has ended in a twist.
Living in la la land with an untimely tune
News, Sirinya Wattanasukchai, Published on 13/12/2017
» I love how Bangkok governor Aswin Kwanmuang cares for the younger generation of the City of Angels and also his vision to make them decent citizens with strict discipline. Last week, the governor announced a plan to launch a CD with a song aimed at preaching to schoolchildren about punctuality. CD handouts are for nearly 500 city schools.
Bangkok needs a smarter plan
News, Sirinya Wattanasukchai, Published on 04/12/2017
» While being shown how "smart" Berlin is as a city during a study tour last month, I came across a piece of news from Thailand about an effort to turn an area in Bangkok into a "smart city". I couldn't help but try to figure out how smart a city Bangkok could become if it embraced this model of development.
Guardians of a bygone era
News, Sirinya Wattanasukchai, Published on 25/11/2017
» Nine years ago when Thanakorn Promli, who lives in tambon Ban Ku in Si Sa Ket, was trying to convince his neighbours to investigate the history of their village, he didn't know it would lead to the rediscovery of his hometown and the birth of a new learning centre last month.