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BMA, businesses join hands in dengue war
News, Published on 17/06/2024
» The Bangkok Metropolitan Administration (BMA) and the Department of Disease Control are teaming up with businesses to raise public awareness of dengue fever, which is growing more prevalent as climate change increases the range of mosquitos that carry the disease.
Chadchart frets over schoolkids using weed
News, Post Reporters, Published on 24/06/2022
» Keeping young people away from cannabis, hemp and kratom requires the help of businesses near schools, says Bangkok governor Chadchart Sittipunt.
Personalities key to city poll
News, Published on 01/04/2022
» The May 22 Bangkok governor election promises to be a fiercely contested race coming nine years since the last poll as contenders' policy platforms and voters' preference for individual candidates are regarded as key factors that will determine the outcome, academics say.
Rubbish rates not that bad, residents say
News, Supoj Wancharoen, Published on 22/05/2019
» The city administration is convinced city residents will be not burdened by the new household garbage waste handling fee that will start in October.
'I would die for this country': Prayut
News, Post Reporters, Published on 23/03/2019
» Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha stole the show on Friday on the last day of election campaign rallies when he appeared on the Palang Pracharath Party's (PPRP) rally stage to the surprise of cheering crowds at Thephasdin Stadium near the National Stadium in Bangkok.
Desalting som tum, the silent killer
News, Published on 09/03/2019
» A 50-year-old som tum (papaya salad) vendor who works outside some flats in Din Daeng in Bangkok was stunned when her medical check-up three years ago revealed she suffered from high blood pressure, which prompted doctors to advise her to urgently cut back on her sodium intake.
Get it before it's gone
Life, Vanniya Sriangura, Published on 02/11/2018
» Not so long ago, Charoen Nakhon Road was one of Bangkok's major thoroughfares that enjoyed light traffic while its bordering neighbourhoods, all of them culinarily abundant, are less flocked-to by visitors.
Pier-ing into the future of the Chao Phraya River
News, Supoj Wancharoen, Published on 23/06/2018
» Property development is transforming land near the Chao Phraya River but one thing remains unchanged: A series of decrepit piers that lie along it.
Wastewater treatment fee plan resurfaces, 15 years on
News, Supoj Wancharoen, Published on 31/03/2018
» City Hall has dusted off a draft regulation to impose a wastewater treatment fee on Bangkok residents, 15 years after it was first flagged.
A year of news to inspire
News, Published on 31/12/2014
» The past year had bad times - but some of the best times were given by the examples of these neighbours, who provided examples to be proud of.