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Wastewater treatment fee plan resurfaces, 15 years on
News, Supoj Wancharoen, Published on 31/03/2018
» City Hall has dusted off a draft regulation to impose a wastewater treatment fee on Bangkok residents, 15 years after it was first flagged.
BMA vows to clean up canal in two years
News, Supoj Wancharoen, Published on 30/04/2016
» The Bangkok Metropolitan Administration (BMA) has set an ambitious goal to turn the polluted Khlong Saen Saep into a clean canal within two years.
Residents try to revive tainted canal
News, Supoj Wancharoen, Published on 07/11/2015
» Feeding the fish in Khlong Prawet Burirom had always been a family routine after making merit at Lan Boon Temple at the weekends. Thanakorn Sitthikul is now considering a new place to take his wife and two children to relax as the water is too disgusting.
Lat Krabang locals suffer canal stench
News, Supoj Wancharoen, Published on 30/10/2015
» Desperate residents along Khlong Prawet Burirom have threatened to take their grievance over a severely polluted canal to the highest levels of government.
City motorists face new oil, gas charge
News, Supoj Wancharoen, Published on 15/10/2015
» Bangkok-based petrol stations will be hit with a new local tax collected from their oil and gas sales at five satang a litre, starting Thursday, as City Hall steps up efforts to pull in revenue for city development.
Sun ushers in new canal era
News, Supoj Wancharoen, Published on 16/08/2014
» At first glance, the green compact boat seems like any other passenger vessel plying the Chao Phraya River. But when passengers get up close, the differences that mark it as a special commuter vehicle become quickly obvious — no pollution is generated by its engine.
Fired up and ready to go
News, Supoj Wancharoen, Published on 26/07/2014
» The shortage of fire trucks in Bangkok will soon ease as nine used emergency vehicles have been donated by Japan’s Fukuoka Prefectural Assembly (FPA).