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BMA rides roughshod on river rights
News, Sirinya Wattanasukchai, Published on 23/03/2016
» I can almost start to feel the privilege -- imagining myself in stylish casuals riding my vintage city bike along the Chao Phraya River feeling the breeze.
BMA intent on making city charmless
News, Sirinya Wattanasukchai, Published on 16/03/2016
» I don't want to believe this is happening again. Another eviction plan for an old community in Bangkok. And if the the Bangkok Metropolitan Administration gets its way, we will soon lose the Mahakan Fort community, touted as one of the charms of the city.
Mahakan Fort villagers fight BMA eviction
News, Sirinya Wattanasukchai, Published on 14/03/2016
» A Mahakan Fort community leader has challenged Bangkok governor Sukhumbhand Paribatra to join a debate on the future of its residents after City Hall dusted off plans to turn the village into parkland.
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.
Striking colonial heritage
Life, Sirinya Wattanasukchai, Published on 13/09/2013
» The colonial buildings in most Southeast Asian countries are often a reminder of less-than-great moments in history.
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.
Doubts remain after tomb hunt
News, Sirinya Wattanasukchai, Published on 06/04/2013
» A team of volunteer archaeologists who set out to verify if a tomb in Myanmar belonged to an Ayutthaya king found some relics and artefacts at the site but cannot reach a conclusion.