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Governor poll will be a contest of imagination
News, Atiya Achakulwisut, Published on 21/12/2021
» Imagination is more important than knowledge, Nobel Prize-winning physicist Albert Einstein famously once said. The Bangkok gubernatorial election, expected to be held early next year but has not been officially scheduled, looks set to be a fascinating contest of imagination.
Ending traffic woes just tip of the iceberg
News, Atiya Achakulwisut, Published on 21/08/2018
» Should Bangkok's traffic gridlock serve as a test case to see who deserves our vote come the next election?
Laying the tracks for another lost decade
News, Atiya Achakulwisut, Published on 04/10/2017
» If former Transport Minister Chadchart Sittipunt was the proverbial stone thrown to test the viability of the road ahead, the sound of it hitting a dead end should be loud and clear.
Gridlock makes losers of us all
News, Atiya Achakulwisut, Published on 01/04/2014
» As I sat trapped in the morning traffic yesterday — the summer sun blazing and no hopeful signs on the road ahead except car bumpers extending as far as the eye could see — a thought formed in my head. What a loser country we have become.
Lust for votes v city's needs
News, Atiya Achakulwisut, Published on 25/12/2012
» The oft-cited "give a man a fish" proverb can be applied to the government's first-car scheme.