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Suriya apologises for petrol tax remark
News, Supoj Wancharoen, Published on 23/12/2023
» Transport Minister Suriya Jungrungreangkit clarified on Friday a proposal to raise the excise tax on petrol in Greater Bangkok to encourage motorists to shift towards public transport was just an idea, saying he had no plan to implement it.
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).