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Uber, DLT to meet next week
News, Amornrat Mahitthirook, Published on 14/03/2017
» The Department of Land Transport (DLT) will meet ride-sharing company Uber next week to hear what the firm has to say after its calls to legalise the service.
Dept plans Uber meeting over legality
News, Amornrat Mahitthirook, Published on 11/03/2017
» Deputy Transport Minister Pichit Akrathit plans to hold talks with the operator of a mobile application used for hailing taxis over its call for legal amendments to enable its services to operate legally in Thailand.
Public drivers warned against playing 'Pokemon Go'
Amornrat Mahitthirook, Published on 09/08/2016
» Authorities have warned drivers of public transport from playing Pokemon Go while on duty, or they could face penalties.
Nok Air apologises for pilots' chat 'targeting' Yingluck
News, Amornrat Mahitthirook, Published on 14/06/2016
» A Nok Air co-pilot and a Thai AirAsia trainee pilot are facing punitive action after joking in a Line app chat group about crashing the plane that former prime minister Yingluck Shinawatra was due to take on Sunday to Bangkok.
Moto-taxi apps get last notice
News, Amornrat Mahitthirook, Published on 18/05/2016
» Authorities have ordered GrabBike and UberMoto, smartphone-based motorcycle taxi services, to stop operating due to violations of public transport regulations.
Airport 'thief' captured
News, Amornrat Mahitthirook, Published on 13/05/2016
» A thief who preyed on sleeping passengers was caught red-handed at Suvarnabhumi Airport yesterday after police devised an unusual trick to trap their man.
Airport expansion costs drop
News, Amornrat Mahitthirook, Published on 27/10/2015
» The second phase of Suvarnabhumi airport's expansion should be about seven billion baht cheaper due to falling oil and construction material prices, according to the Airports of Thailand (AoT).
Prajin tries to flush dirty railway loo image
News, Amornrat Mahitthirook, Published on 18/06/2015
» Authorities have come up with a novel way to boost tourism — making sure toilets on trains and at all railway stations nationwide are clean, modern and can be found via a mobile phone.
Commuter-rejecting taxis rampant on 4 Bangkok streets
Amornrat Mahitthirook, Published on 25/05/2015
» A mobile phone application from the Department of Land Transport has revealed that Bangkok's Sukhumvit, Silom, Sathon and Phaya Thai are the streets where taxi drivers routinely reject commuters in need.
986 taxi complaints filed by app
News, Amornrat Mahitthirook, Published on 04/05/2015
» More than 2,000 notifications have been sent through the Department of Land Transport (DLT)'s mobile phone application in the past two months, with passengers calling for improvements to taxi services and lodging complaints about cabbies.