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Street food at a crossroads
News, Jutamas Tadthiemrom, Published on 13/10/2025
» Street vendors and food stalls have long defined Bangkok's urban rhythm -- sizzling woks, plastic stools and the hum of late-night chatter form an inseparable part of the city's identity. To locals, they are the pulse of everyday life; to visitors, a culinary adventure.
Local managers can meet elderly needs
News, Post Reporters, Published on 12/05/2025
» Academics are urging the government to better respond to the growing needs of the elderly population by investing in the training of community-based managers.
NACC supports Green Line claim
News, Post Reporters, Published on 14/09/2023
» The National Anti-Corruption Commission (NACC) has found grounds to allegations of graft against former Bangkok governor MR Sukhumband Paribatra and 11 others -- most of whom were top City Hall executives under his administration -- relating to the extension of the Green Line's concession contract.
Purple Line plans worry art chiefs
News, Supoj Wancharoen, Published on 15/04/2023
» The Fine Arts Department has raised concerns over the need to avoid as many historic sites as possible along a new extension of the Purple Line which will run through Bangkok's Rattanakosin Island old town area.
Pheu Thai ups stakes in race
News, Aekarach Sattaburuth and Mongkol Bangprapa, Published on 20/03/2023
» The Pheu Thai Party has recently revised its MP target, aiming to capture 310 House seats in the next polls — an ambitious scale-up from the 250 seats — and form a solid single-party government. The move is seen by academics as a major task and tactic to intensify the campaign and to get rid of the pro-Prayut camp.
Researchers discover new orchid species
News, Post Reporters, Published on 23/02/2023
» Researchers from the Prince of Songkla University have discovered a new species of orchid, Aphyllorchis periactinantha, found at the Paribatra waterfall in the southern province of Songkhla.
Politicians make hay while the sun shines
News, Aekarach Sattaburuth, Published on 27/12/2022
» It was a year of tumult on the political front, with Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha's selection as sole prime ministerial candidate of the United Thai Nation Party, the Constitutional Court's ruling that Prime Minister Prayut's term still had time to run, and the landslide victory of independent candidate Chadchart Sittipunt in the Bangkok governor election.
Smear sparks poll unrest fear
News, Post Reporters, Published on 16/05/2022
» The final stretch of the Bangkok governor campaign is heating up with the front-running candidate smeared with a scare tactic last employed in the March 3, 2013 Bangkok election governor campaign.
Bangkok governor resigns to seek 'renewed term'
News, Supoj Wancharoen, Published on 25/03/2022
» After much anticipation, Pol Gen Aswin Kwanmuang announced on Thursday his resignation as Bangkok governor and plan to run as an independent in the city gubernatorial election expected in May.
ACT calls to defer Green Line ruling
News, Post Reporters, Published on 17/02/2022
» The Anti-Corruption Organisation of Thailand (ACT) has suggested the cabinet halt any debate on a plan to extend the 30-year concession of the Green Line railway for Bangkok Mass Transit System Plc (BTSC) and wait for the city's next-elected governor to make a decision.