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Once the birthday bash is done...
News, Ploenpote Atthakor, Published on 02/05/2022
» Bangkok has turned 240th years old. The government, via the Culture Ministry, recently celebrated this auspicious occasion, with cultural performances and fun-filled activities at several landmark spots.
Outbreak highlights our complacency
News, Ploenpote Atthakor, Published on 21/12/2020
» We are seemingly paying a high price for Covid-19 complacency.
Fresh talks a step to douse far South fires
News, Ploenpote Atthakor, Published on 05/01/2019
» Despite a spate of attacks rattling the restive far South over the past few weeks, the chief negotiator of peace talks in the region, Gen Udomchai Thammasaroraj, remains hopeful.
P-Move 'win' likely another false dawn
News, Ploenpote Atthakor, Published on 16/05/2018
» It's that same cycle again. A grassroots protest petitioning the state to pay attention to their grievances, then rounds of negotiation and bargaining after stiff reluctance, a promise or promises by the state, sometimes with a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU). Mostly the protesters, satisfied, agree to return home.
It's a big mistake to trash Bangkok history
News, Ploenpote Atthakor, Published on 06/07/2017
» In the view of the state, the embattled Mahakan community, struggling against a state eviction order, is just trash that must be removed from the historical site. Many academics, however, disagree.
Old railway stations are slipping away
News, Ploenpote Atthakor, Published on 18/03/2017
» As Thailand is going ahead with its double-track train development plan, the first casualties of the development are the old railway stations across the country.
Get ready for a Mahakan theme park
News, Ploenpote Atthakor, Published on 10/03/2017
» For those who missed this big news, please note. Bangkok is to have a new Disneyland-like theme park, right in the Rattanakosin old-town quarters.
Anti-coal protesters shrug off PM's threat
News, Ploenpote Atthakor, Published on 16/02/2017
» Once again, Bangkok is to become a scene of protests for anti-coal activists, as the top energy policy agency will meet and make a decision on the contentious coal-fired power plant in Krabi tomorrow.
BMA reneges on Mahakan Fort promise
News, Ploenpote Atthakor, Published on 01/10/2016
» Conflicts over the Mahakan Fort community continued to escalate this week, and it's about time the Prayut Chan-o-cha government steps in to find a solution.
Mahakan Fort saga is no zero-sum game
News, Ploenpote Atthakor, Published on 03/09/2016
» It would be wrong to think that the long-standing Mahakan Fort land dispute involving the Bangkok Metropolitan Administration (BMA) and occupants of the fort area is a zero-sum issue, as perceived by city administrators.