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New Year’s eve countdown road closures in Bangkok
News, Published on 27/12/2025
» Parts of several major roads in central Bangkok will be temporarily closed on Dec 31 and Jan 1 to facilitate the CentralWorld Bangkok Countdown 2026, as authorities roll out traffic and safety measures for New Year celebrations.
Big seizure of faked-brand goods in Bangkok shopping mall
News, Wassayos Ngamkham, Published on 28/04/2025
» Police have arrested a Chinese man on a charge of selling counterfeit brand products and seized more than 27,000 smuggled items from a store in a shopping mall in Bangkok.
Bangkok condo owners, agents arrested for illegal rentals
News, Aekarach Sattaburuth, Published on 07/03/2025
» A number of condo owners and service agents in Bangkok are facing legal action following complaints that some units were illegally rented out as de facto hotel rooms.
Bangkok traffic alert as construction starts
News, Post Reporters, Published on 14/11/2024
» Motorists have been warned to expect heavy traffic congestion as the Bangkok Metropolitan Administration (BMA) will close and demolish three key traffic flyovers during construction of the Orange Line electric train route, which starts on Friday.
BMA, MRTA to sign land transfer MoU
News, Supoj Wancharoen, Published on 15/10/2024
» The Bangkok Metropolitan Administration (BMA) will sign a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with the Mass Rapid Transit Authority of Thailand (MRTA) for the handover of areas during construction of the western section of the Orange Line this week.
AI catching Bangkok traffic offenders
News, Supoj Wancharoen, Published on 21/06/2023
» City Hall is using artificial intelligence software (AI) to catch traffic offenders and will also use it to improve traffic flow management at intersections, the Bangkok governor said on Wednesday.
There's always something worth a laugh
News, Roger Crutchley, Published on 11/12/2022
» Recently I watched on television the 1992 film Chaplin, starring Robert Downey Jr as the great English comic actor, best known in Thailand simply as Charlie. It brought back happy memories of the mid-1970s when a series of the Chaplin movies were re-released in Thailand and proved a huge hit. The Thai public loved Charlie.
Tuning in to the opening day of May
News, Roger Crutchley, Published on 01/05/2022
» Well, here we are in the first 24 hours of the magical month of May. According to the dictionary, May Day is the time for "a celebration of the coming of Spring". Unfortunately, we don't experience Spring in Thailand and are still perspiring our way through the hot season, hoping Jupiter Pluvius might oblige with an occasional refreshing shower.
When it twigged Thailand was different
News, Roger Crutchley, Published on 17/04/2022
» For the third year running we have experienced muted Songkran celebrations, and I for one won't complain if it remains that way for a while. Of course there have been a few naughty tourists who have broken the water-throwing protocols, but maybe the heat got to them.
Free advice
News, Published on 14/03/2022
» Re: "TAT devises plan to relax travel rules", (Business, March 11).