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Chinese New Year tourists make Bangkok their top pick
News, Supoj Wancharoen, Published on 17/01/2025
» Bangkok is the most popular destination for Thai tourists and international travellers who are planning to celebrate the Chinese New Year in the kingdom, according to digital travel platform Agoda.
BMA steps into canal 'decay' row
News, Supoj Wancharoen, Published on 11/03/2024
» Bangkok Metropolitan Administration (BMA) officials have spoken out to defend their agency after pictures of abandoned locations around the Klong Ong Ang Canal were circulated online alongside criticism of the BMA.
Keeping lives on track
News, Supoj Wancharoen, Published on 17/07/2023
» Chao Kerdaree sits on a bench between two rail tracks, facing a row of shanty houses. Soon his family and another 100 more will be forcibly evicted from their Bun Romsai community built along a one-kilometre rail track in Phaya Thai district.
MRTA station plan sparks city architecture row
News, Supoj Wancharoen, Published on 18/06/2023
» A civil group has called on the Mass Rapid Transit Authority (MRTA) to relocate an entry point into the Phan Fa station of its Purple Line to preserve century-old shophouses along Phra Sumen Road.
Row over impeachment bill
News, Supoj Wancharoen, Published on 29/06/2022
» The National Municipal League of Thailand (NMLT) has called on the Bangkok Metropolitan Administration (BMA) to join in opposing a bill which, if passed, will make it possible to remove local leaders by impeachment.
Orange Line row back in court
News, Supoj Wancharoen, Published on 24/02/2021
» The Bangkok Mass Transit System (BTSC) has asked the Central Criminal Court for Corruption and Misconduct Cases to be brought against the Mass Rapid Transit Authority of Thailand (MRTA) over the cancelled bidding for the western extension of the MRT Orange Line.
Smart City project a source of conflict
News, Supoj Wancharoen, Published on 22/11/2020
» The row over a plan to purchase land from a community behind the old Mor Chit Bus Terminal to build an elevated road as part of a "smart city" project around the mass transit station has raised questions about the way the state spends taxpayer money on land expropriation.
Activist network slams Chao Phraya promenade project
Supoj Wancharoen, Published on 03/12/2019
» Activists from 35 groups have voiced their strong opposition to the planned Chao Phraya Riverside Promenade project that City Hall claims no-one any longer objects to.
BMA targets 'getting tough' with markets
News, Supoj Wancharoen, Published on 17/05/2018
» The Central Administrative Court's ruling Wednesday ordering the dismantling of all five markets in the Seri Villa Housing Estate and compensation payments to plaintiffs will lead to City Hall "getting tough" with more than a hundred markets, the Bangkok governor says.