OPINION

Bangkok's clean streets, empty souls

Oped, Sirinya Wattanasukchai, Published on 10/11/2025

» Banthat Thong used to be a neighbourhood, not a concept. You could live here and find everything: restaurants, bookstores, hardware shops, clinics, banks -- even a place to have your shirts made. It was one of those streets where life unfolded upstairs and business happened downstairs. Today, it is something else entirely.