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Outbreak highlights our complacency
News, Ploenpote Atthakor, Published on 21/12/2020
» We are seemingly paying a high price for Covid-19 complacency.
Reckless actions endanger us all
News, Ploenpote Atthakor, Published on 30/11/2020
» As health authorities report a new infection case in Chiang Mai, the public has every reason to be terrified.
Ban Plainern saga shows city never learns
News, Ploenpote Atthakor, Published on 25/04/2019
» Art enthusiasts are looking forward to next Monday, when they will have the chance to tour Ban Plainern, the former residence of Prince Naris, the master artist of Rattanakosin.
It's time for road safety to get a radical overhaul
News, Ploenpote Atthakor, Published on 10/01/2019
» A severe bus crash on a Pathum Thani road in the wee hours of Jan 6 that killed six passengers and injured many has left egg on the faces of the big shots at the Department of Land Transport (DLT).
BMA shows more disregard for heritage
News, Ploenpote Atthakor, Published on 25/06/2018
» History? What history? Bangkok Metropolitan Administration officials handling the ongoing renovation of a vintage building in the compound of Mahakan Fort may reply to anyone questioning their controversial work.
Is ending civil service graft a fool's errand
News, Ploenpote Atthakor, Published on 03/04/2018
» Civil servants across the country have just had their big day. April 1, national civil servants day, has just passed by with rewards being handed out to a few outstanding officials -- a top honour or a once-in-a-lifetime affair -- for those working for the state.
Not just one culprit in bus crash horror
News, Ploenpote Atthakor, Published on 26/03/2018
» It seems the 18 holiday-makers who were killed on Wednesday night when a double-decker bus crashed in Nakhon Ratchasima were victims of careless driving.
Something rotten in handling of Mahakan Fort issue
Ploenpote Atthakor, Published on 12/02/2018
» The demolition of a landmark house at Mahakan Fort in the name of conservation has stunned conservationists who have condemned the Bangkok Metropolitan Administration for a saga which began in the early 1990s.
City loses historic icon in Mahakan fight
Oped, Ploenpote Atthakor, Published on 09/02/2018
» Bangkok yesterday lost one of the rare, vintage houses that represent the bygone days of the Rattanakosin era when it was demolished and reduced to a pile of rubble.
Class conflict between tower and Mahakan
News, Ploenpote Atthakor, Published on 03/07/2017
» 'No more eviction nightmares for the old Mahakan community as the Bangkok Metropolitan Administration agrees to rent the land plot and allow the old community to develop a living museum."