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News, Sirinya Wattanasukchai, Published on 03/05/2019
» Social media has been dominated by unusual activity as netizens try to get pictures of what they see as the worst pavement in the Big Mango. Their eagerness seems vivid and strong, as if it were a contest.
News, Sirinya Wattanasukchai, Published on 05/04/2019
» How many cards must a Bangkokian carry with them just so they can make their way through the ever-so busy and bustling capital? No, I'm not talking about credit, debit, or loyalty reward cards. I'm talking about the cards that a commuter must carry just so that can move from Point A to B.
News, Sirinya Wattanasukchai, Published on 23/03/2019
» Sometimes it feels as if we are still in the Stone Age. A recent attack on a motorcycle taxi rider who works for a popular app by a regular bike taxi give us this impression.
News, Sirinya Wattanasukchai, Published on 07/12/2018
» Since Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha inaugurated the opening of the BTS Green Line Skytrain system's southern extension on Thursday, Samut Prakan residents may now find it more convenient to commute to Bangkok for work. But I have doubts about how many of them can afford it.
News, Sirinya Wattanasukchai, Published on 04/10/2018
» A large number of Bangkok commuters are being held hostage. But not at gunpoint. They are victims of a piecemeal public transport policy that sees van operators whose vehicles have hit the 10-year age limit being decommissioned by the Land Transport Department while there are no alternatives.
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.
Oped, Sirinya Wattanasukchai, Published on 04/11/2017
» With great reluctance, City Hall has finally announced a plan to demolish parts of the unlawfully built Aetas Hotel Bangkok to comply with an order issued by the Supreme Administrative Court in 2014.
News, Sirinya Wattanasukchai, Published on 19/10/2017
» When learning that Bangkok governor Aswin Kwanmuang daringly announced he would take sole responsibility for the catastrophic flood that slammed most parts of Bangkok on Saturday morning, I thought he wouldn't make it to his first anniversary as head of City Hall this week.
News, Sirinya Wattanasukchai, Published on 24/08/2017
» After watching the documentary Citizen Jane: Battle for the City last weekend, I finally found something in common between New York City and Bangkok -- the obsession with infrastructure development at the cost of local communities. What happened to New York City planning six decades ago reminds me of what's happening to development in Bangkok nowadays.
News, Sirinya Wattanasukchai, Published on 18/01/2017
» As global political and business leaders along with many of the super-rich gather at the World Economic Forum this week in Davos, Switzerland, international advocacy group Oxfam released a report on Monday revealing that eight men are as wealthy as the poorest half of the world's population.