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Chadchart frets over schoolkids using weed
News, Post Reporters, Published on 24/06/2022
» Keeping young people away from cannabis, hemp and kratom requires the help of businesses near schools, says Bangkok governor Chadchart Sittipunt.
Personalities key to city poll
News, Published on 01/04/2022
» The May 22 Bangkok governor election promises to be a fiercely contested race coming nine years since the last poll as contenders' policy platforms and voters' preference for individual candidates are regarded as key factors that will determine the outcome, academics say.
Waiting for change at Din Daeng
Life, Thana Boonlert, Published on 04/10/2021
» It was after dusk when the first bang went off somewhere in a war-like zone. "They are just warming up," said a young dropout waiting for his friends amid an explosion near the bridge at Din Daeng intersection in Bangkok.
Cops stand by car smash colleague
News, Wassayos Ngamkham, Published on 14/09/2021
» The Metropolitan Police Bureau (MPB) yesterday defended a policeman who allegedly drove into a group of anti-government protesters on Sunday night in the Din Daeng area, injuring one of them.
Protesters nabbed for injuring cop
News, Wassayos Ngamkham, Published on 31/08/2021
» Two protesters, caught on video injuring a police officer during Sunday's anti-government protest in Bangkok, have been detained along with 27 other protest suspects, Metropolitan Police Bureau (MPB) commissioner Pol Lt Gen Pakapong Pongpetra said on Monday.
Rubbish rates not that bad, residents say
News, Supoj Wancharoen, Published on 22/05/2019
» The city administration is convinced city residents will be not burdened by the new household garbage waste handling fee that will start in October.
'I would die for this country': Prayut
News, Post Reporters, Published on 23/03/2019
» Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha stole the show on Friday on the last day of election campaign rallies when he appeared on the Palang Pracharath Party's (PPRP) rally stage to the surprise of cheering crowds at Thephasdin Stadium near the National Stadium in Bangkok.
Desalting som tum, the silent killer
News, Published on 09/03/2019
» A 50-year-old som tum (papaya salad) vendor who works outside some flats in Din Daeng in Bangkok was stunned when her medical check-up three years ago revealed she suffered from high blood pressure, which prompted doctors to advise her to urgently cut back on her sodium intake.
Get it before it's gone
Life, Vanniya Sriangura, Published on 02/11/2018
» Not so long ago, Charoen Nakhon Road was one of Bangkok's major thoroughfares that enjoyed light traffic while its bordering neighbourhoods, all of them culinarily abundant, are less flocked-to by visitors.
Pier-ing into the future of the Chao Phraya River
News, Supoj Wancharoen, Published on 23/06/2018
» Property development is transforming land near the Chao Phraya River but one thing remains unchanged: A series of decrepit piers that lie along it.