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Anti-speeding crusaders rev up 'informant' campaign
News, Supoj Wancharoen, Published on 20/05/2017
» Bangkok residents have been encouraged to act as informants and report city locations where speeding vehicles are most prevalent, in a bid to curb road accident casualties.
40 monitor lizards ousted from Lumpini
News, Supoj Wancharoen, Published on 21/09/2016
» Around 40 Asian water monitor lizards were captured yesterday in Lumpini Park in an attempt by City Hall to reduce the lizard population in the park.
Din Daeng checks to take 4 months
News, Supoj Wancharoen, Published on 05/09/2015
» Engineers have said it will take four months to inspect and evaluate flats in Din Daeng earmarked for demolition to make way for a new housing project.
A village that backs itself
News, Supoj Wancharoen, Published on 25/07/2015
» The old story of villagers sitting around and waiting for the state to step in and solve all of their problems is a thing of the past for residents of Mooban Nak Keela Laemthong community in Bangkok’s Saphan Sung district.
Bangkok toppled from best tourist city spot
News, Supoj Wancharoen, Published on 06/07/2014
» After four years as the world's top tourist destination, Bangkok has plummeted out of the top 10, in a vote by Travel + Leisure magazine readers.
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.
Battlelines drawn over Asoke elevated road
News, Supoj Wancharoen, Published on 26/10/2013
» An elevated road project above the heavily congested Asoke Montri Road in Bangkok has been revived to relieve severe traffic problems - but locals continue to oppose it.
Sukhumbhand unveils four deputies, lays out his agenda
News, Supoj Wancharoen, Published on 03/04/2013
» Bangkok governor Sukhumbhand Paribatra named his four deputies yesterday.
Bookshops find a place on the map
News, Supoj Wancharoen, Published on 10/11/2012
» While many Thais despair about the lack of a reading culture in the country, Bangkok in fact hosts a surprising number of bookshops, so many that a guide map has been produced to help book lovers to locate the nearest ones to them.
Informal workers demand rights
News, Supoj Wancharoen, Published on 15/09/2012
» Having chosen to work outside the employment system, 1.2 million people in Bangkok who make up the informal work sector have no access to social benefits and opportunities, even though they make a sizeable contribution to the economy and lifestyle of the capital.