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Khru Noi saga highlights the welfare gap
News, Sirinya Wattanasukchai, Published on 18/05/2016
» The recent closure of Ban Khru Noi, a private children's shelter, is definitely sad.
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.
Killing off the capital's charm, again
News, Sirinya Wattanasukchai, Published on 24/02/2016
» The Bangkok Metropolitan Administration's (BMA) latest attempt to ban all street vendors from pavements in Pak Klong Talat flower market under its clean-up campaign ushers in a sense of deja vu.
City's charm vanishes as BMA moves in
News, Sirinya Wattanasukchai, Published on 22/10/2015
» Has anyone checked the new app, "Street Food Bangkok" launched recently by the Foreign Affairs Ministry together with the Tourism Authority of Thailand and the Bangkok Metropolitan Administration (BMA)?
Fair cop, guv - and here's your reward
News, Sirinya Wattanasukchai, Published on 03/09/2015
» Every time I see police displaying bundles of amphetamines seized from drug dealers in a crackdown, I always ask myself if the pills -- neatly packed in black garbage bags -- are really amphetamines. Could they be just painkillers? And why do the police have to show those seized items?
Weak support for city cyclists so dispiriting
News, Sirinya Wattanasukchai, Published on 28/05/2015
» Should I feel thankful that businessman and property analyst Sophon Pornchokchai has expressed concerns over the safety of cyclists?
Legalise app cabs to ride in happiness
News, Sirinya Wattanasukchai, Published on 22/01/2015
» After several failed attempts at hailing a taxi to return home from work downtown, a friend of mine changed strategy.
City folk find friends on the organic farm
News, Sirinya Wattanasukchai, Published on 25/12/2014
» With the festive season upon us, has anyone noticed a new gift-giving trend? People are increasingly picking organic rice as a present.
Three 'witnesses' to testify in Koh Tao case
Sirinya Wattanasukchai, Published on 14/10/2014
» Lawyers from the Lawyers Council of Thailand will accompany three potential witnesses from Myanmar as they testify in the Koh Tao murder case in a court in Samui Tuesday, human rights advocate Surapong Kongchantuk said.
The secret garden
Life, Sirinya Wattanasukchai, Published on 24/09/2014
» It was time to go home after a long day’s work. But Worakamol Hin-on had a last mission to complete before catching the shuttle bus — to grab some basil leaves in the factory’s garden for her dinner.