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  • OPINION

    Faulty culture of travel firms

    News, Editorial, Published on 08/03/2017

    » The first specific details of the programme to replace vans with micro buses for inter-city and inter-provincial passengers are now known. The Central Land Transport Control Board, under the supervision of Deputy Minister of Transport Pichit Akarathit, aims to have 55 buses on the roads by July 1. The pilot project will provide useful information. However, this optimistic report leaves out the single most important point.

  • WORLD

    South Korea's president formally ousted by court

    Associated Press, Published on 10/03/2017

    » SEOUL - In a historic, unanimous ruling Friday, South Korea's Constitutional Court formally removed impeached President Park Geun-hye from office over a corruption scandal that has plunged the country into political turmoil and worsened an already-serious national divide.

  • THAILAND

    BMTA seeks bus contract aid

    News, Amornrat Mahitthirook, Published on 16/02/2017

    » The Bangkok Mass Transit Authority (BMTA) is seeking opinions from two government departments on how to go about scrapping the contract to procure 489 natural gas for vehicle (NGV) buses from Bestlin Group.

  • OPINION

    Toning down ad pollution

    News, Editorial, Published on 16/02/2017

    » Over the past few days momentum has been building against the forced advertising that commuters on the mass-transit system have had to endure for years.

  • WORLD

    3rd protester dies as S. Korea braces for more rallies

    Associated Press, Published on 11/03/2017

    » SEOUL - South Korean police on Saturday braced for more violence between opponents and supporters of ousted President Park Geun-hye, who was stripped of her powers by the Constitutional Court over a corruption scandal that has plunged the country into a political turmoil.

  • THAILAND

    Bus plan forces van owners to reroute future

    News, Published on 12/03/2017

    » Standing at the van ticket booth at Mor Chit 2 bus terminal waiting for his van's 14 seats to be filled up, Anun Phutsong is still serving passengers from Bangkok to Ayutthaya despite the government's ambitious plan to replace all inter-provincial vans with minibuses by this year's end.

  • OPINION

    Feeling the pinch

    News, Postbag, Published on 12/03/2017

    » Re: "Pay 1% more in VAT, PM asks Thais", (BP, March 10).

  • OPINION

    Time to take road carnage seriously

    News, Editorial, Published on 12/03/2017

    » The picture of the wreckage of a double-decker bus that plunged into a ravine in Prachin Buri province, which appeared on several newspapers' front pages, must have broken the hearts of many readers. The doomed bus carried some 50 high school students and teachers from the northeastern province of Khon Kaen who were on a study trip to a royal development study centre in Tha Mai district of Chanthaburi. The trip was a reward for the students after completing their final exams.

  • THAILAND

    Women call for assault-free commutes

    News, Penchan Charoensuthipan, Published on 09/03/2017

    » Women's advocates have kicked off a campaign for safe commuting for women to mark International Women's Day.

  • THAILAND

    Bus Rapid Transit teeters on brink

    News, Published on 18/02/2017

    » When the announcement was made that the Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) service could soon be discontinued, Naruemon (not her real name) couldn't help but feel exhausted at the thought that she and her son would have to endure a morning and evening ordeal going to and from his school on Sathon Road.

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