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BMA blowing hot air about toxic city haze
News, Anchalee Kongrut, Published on 23/02/2018
» I had never believed air pollution can kill, until I spent a year living in Beijing. The year was 2013. Notably, it was a time the city was known for its "airpocalypse", a moniker used by foreign media to describe severe air pollution in China.
Making money from others' misery
Life, Anchalee Kongrut, Published on 02/04/2014
» Rubbish disposal in Thailand can be a very dirty business, metaphorically as well as literally speaking. The recent fire at a garbage dump in tambon Phraeksa, Samut Prakan province, smouldered for days, necessitating the temporary evacuation of people living in its immediate vicinity and blanketing large swathes of eastern Bangkok in haze. And this past Sunday, another blaze erupted at a dump site in Samut Prakan, this time in Bang Phli district.