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Bangkok unveils work-from-home policy amid air pollution
News, Supoj Wancharoen, Published on 13/01/2025
» Bangkok governor Chadchart Sittipunt will announce a new work-from-home policy on Monday, as well as adding more schools to its clean air shelter project, which aims to safeguard the city from the chronic PM2.5 fine dust pollution.
New tech keeps lorry drivers in line
News, Supoj Wancharoen, Published on 28/06/2024
» Transport Minister Suriya Jungrungreangkit yesterday vowed to get tougher on lorries exceeding the maximum permitted carrying weight and stamp out highway-related bribery.
Government hails Songkran public transport feat
Supoj Wancharoen, Published on 17/04/2024
» More than 15 million trips were made via public transport modes during the Songkran festival, up 7.92% from the previous year, according to the Transport Ministry.
Weight rule 'needs better enforcement'
News, Supoj Wancharoen, Published on 14/11/2023
» The Transport Ministry has ordered all relevant agencies to cooperate with the police to assist its crackdown on overloaded trucks, after concrete slabs on a major road in Bangkok caved in last week.
Police chief orders crackdown on lorry drivers nationwide
News, Supoj Wancharoen, Published on 04/06/2023
» National police chief Pol Gen Damrongsak Kittiprapas has ordered officials nationwide to enforce the law on overloaded lorries after news of them paying "sticker bribes" surfaced last week.
Aswin says city ready for annual toxic dust deluge
News, Supoj Wancharoen, Published on 28/10/2020
» City Hall is working overtime to prepare for the return of hazardous levels of PM2.5 dust to the capital in December, Bangkok governor Aswin Kwanmuang told media on Tuesday.
BMA mulls ban on overladen trucks
News, Supoj Wancharoen, Published on 16/01/2020
» City Hall is looking to ban overloaded lorries from certain parts of Bangkok in a proposal aimed at not only protecting city roads from further damage but also to reduce hazardous ultra-fine dust particles in the air.
BMA says cremations pollute city
News, Supoj Wancharoen, Published on 31/01/2018
» The Bangkok Metropolitan Administration (BMA) is urging people not to place "unnecessary items" in coffins ahead of cremations in a bid to ward off smog in the capital.