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Protests - heaven for cyclists
Life, Sirinya Wattanasukchai, Published on 19/03/2014
» President of Thailand Cycling Club, Thongchai Panswad, has been walking and cycling and encouraging people to do the same for over two decades.
Monsoon racers
Sirinya Wattanasukchai, Published on 06/01/2014
» Snitvong Thongplengsri remembers the childhood fun of racing rua pok paek in front of his house with his neighbours, in the local floods which followed a downpour.
The wheel thing
Muse, Sirinya Wattanasukchai, Published on 07/09/2013
» To author Zahid Sardar, a bike means freedom simply because it can take you anywhere.
The fight to stay green
Life, Sirinya Wattanasukchai, Published on 26/06/2013
» 'If you could design Bangkok, what would it be," asks Jatuporn Tansirimas, campaigner of Makkasan Hope, a group advocating for a new public park. He's open to every resident's opinion.
On the walls in Mandalay
Life, Sirinya Wattanasukchai, Published on 02/05/2013
» More than two centuries after Ayutthaya villagers were captured by the Burmese and taken to Mandalay, some artistic traits are still evident in the township of Amarapura. But don't expect to find traditional Thai stilt houses from the period dotting Amarapura streets or Ayutthaya's narrow chedi abounding in Myanmar temples.
Modern family
Life, Sirinya Wattanasukchai, Published on 11/03/2013
» Situated some 150km apart, Lop Buri and Bangkok share at least one architectural lineage, a set of "Modern style" buildings that are the legacy of the People's Party that brought drastic political change to the country in 1932.
A bike fit for Bangkok
Life, Sirinya Wattanasukchai, Published on 28/01/2013
» Bangkok poses a special set of challenges to those brave souls who choose to travel on two wheels. The mixture of narrow streets, typically choked with heavy traffic, and broad, multi-lane avenues that cover large expanses, but which can be hazardous because of speeding motorists, makes this ever-expanding metropolis of ours a very difficult place to negotiate with a single-purpose bicycle.
Keeping history alive
Life, Sirinya Wattanasukchai, Published on 14/01/2013
» If there is something we can learn from the demolition of the Supreme Court's old office - an ongoing dispute that has attracted much attention from historians, conservationists as well as legal experts - it is that the value of most buildings erected in the same era are underrated and are at risk of being torn down.
Hat trick&beyond
Life, Sirinya Wattanasukchai, Published on 05/09/2012
» If you think hats are just a fashion accessory, think again.
There goes the neighbourhood
Life, Sirinya Wattanasukchai, Published on 21/08/2012
» 'Take as many photos of this area as you want. What you can see today will soon be all gone," said Sunee Narongrit, a resident of Amphawa, as she gazed at a row of decades-old wooden houses facing onto the canal.