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Bangkok beauty: BMA fails city by erasing Mahakan
News, Sirinya Wattanasukchai, Published on 19/01/2018
» A day before Italian photographer Jan Daga opened his exhibition on the doomed Mahakan community at a Bangkok venue, I asked him when he planned to visit the struggling neighbourhood so I could also attend, but he appeared reluctant to venture back there.
Mahakan Fort mourns loss of century-old house
News, Published on 07/03/2017
» Academics and civic groups cried foul over the loss of an almost century-old house near the Mahakan Fort community after City Hall began tearing it down Monday.
BMA's Mahakan mess
News, Postbag, Published on 21/01/2017
» It is with deep disappointment that we have read Peerawat Jariyasombat's strangely ill-informed article, "A lesson in development" (BP, Jan 16, 2017). In a move that seems calculated to pander to the greed of developers rather than nurture the human resources represented by local populations, Khun Peerawat hails the efforts of Korean authorities to replace an existing population with an artist colony, but says nothing about the fate of the original residents.
Academics step in to support Mahakan locals
News, Published on 23/04/2016
» The eviction of the Mahakan fort community will deprive Bangkok of a model for locally-generated cultural management, a group of academics warns.
Saving the Fort Mahakan community
Life, Chris Baker, Published on 11/04/2016
» Last week, the Bangkok Metropolitan Authority (BMA) posted an order to evict the residents of the Fort Mahakan community within a matter of days. Immediately, journalists, activists, academics, and town planners rose in protest, condemning the BMA as philistine wreckers of a small but important part of Bangkok's battered heritage.
Fort's fans dig in
News, Published on 03/10/2013
» I read with dismay Prof Michael Herzfeld's article, ''Pom Mahakan eviction would be a calamitous loss'' (Opinion, Sept 27).
Pom Mahakan eviction would be a calamitous loss
News, Published on 27/09/2013
» The Pom Mahakan community, located in the symbolic core of Rattanakosin Island, has been struggling for more than two decades to achieve a cooperative land-sharing arrangement with the Bangkok Metropolitan Administration (BMA).