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Saphan Lek vendors ordered to move on
News, Supoj Wancharoen, Published on 25/09/2015
» Street vendors and illegal trading booths in the Saphan Lek area will be moved on within the next two weeks to pave the way for landscape improvements and rejuvenate the waterway.
Bus terminal opens space for tourists
News, Supoj Wancharoen, Published on 25/07/2015
» The Bangkok southern bus terminal will be turned into a tourist bus parking space to ease traffic congestion around the packed Grand Palace.
Skytrain looks West
News, Supoj Wancharoen, Published on 21/03/2015
» People in the western suburbs of Bangkok have for decades struggled to maintain links with the greater metropolis, with mass transit systems all but a dream. Until now.
BMA warns Khlong Thom market vendors not to return
News, Supoj Wancharoen, Published on 07/03/2015
» City Hall has warned evicted Khlong Thom vendors who have vowed to return to the market that they will be hit with legal action if they go back.
City Hall denies intimidating vendors to get them to move
News, Supoj Wancharoen, Published on 25/02/2015
» City Hall has denied allegations it has intimidated vendors at Khlong Thom Market in Bangkok's Chinatown to get them to relocate their stalls.
There and back on a single, narrow line
News, Supoj Wancharoen, Published on 10/01/2015
» Traffic congestion has long been a challenge for City Hall. Year-in, year-out, the Bangkok Metropolitan Administration (BMA) searches for new ways to ease congestion.
Another market battle looms
News, Supoj Wancharoen, Published on 27/12/2014
» When City Hall launched its campaign to free up the pavements at Khlong Thom Market in Bangkok's Chinatown, some people supported it, but many were opposed. The clogged streets contributed to the identity and soul of the unique market, they argued.
BMA to break up Khlong Thom market
News, Supoj Wancharoen, Published on 09/12/2014
» Khlong Thom market, known for its sales of cheap electronics products on the streets, has emerged as the next target in City Hall's pavements cleanup campaign.
Councillors come under the spotlight
News, Supoj Wancharoen, Published on 06/10/2014
» All eyes are on the newly selected 30 city councillors who will begin work at City Hall on Wednesday.
A disaster waiting to happen, and what to do when it does
News, Supoj Wancharoen, Published on 05/07/2014
» When the tsunami swept the south of Thailand on Boxing Day 2004, many people had no idea what had hit them. Few realised that the sea receding in such a dramatic fashion was going to produce an incoming wall of water that eventually claimed the lives of more than a quarter of a million people.