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Fading city spirit
Oped, Postbag, Published on 11/11/2025
» Re: "Bangkok's clean streets, empty souls", (Opinion, Nov 10).
Put culture first in old town revamps
Oped, Sirinya Wattanasukchai, Published on 28/03/2024
» Will Thailand's old towns include their old communities as they are renovated? In many of these important districts, institutional owners of land are apt to evict legacy tenants to make way for redevelopment, threatening vintage architecture and eroding vibrant local cultures and ways of life.
Supoj pick shows haste
Oped, Editorial, Published on 05/07/2022
» Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha raised many eyebrows when he appointed the secretary-general of the National Security Council, Supoj Malaniyom, to oversee the nation's energy and food security issues.
A hat-trick no one wants
Oped, Editorial, Published on 01/01/2022
» After two years of living dangerously with Covid, Thais are waking up from a relatively sombre New Year celebration in the hope that 2022 will be a better year.
Covid policy flip-flops
Oped, Editorial, Published on 22/12/2021
» The Omicron variant of the coronavirus is enough of a threat that the last thing that society needs is more flip-flopping and a lack of preparedness from the authorities.
Be selective in field hospital admissions
News, Sirinya Wattanasukchai, Published on 19/04/2021
» With the surge of new Covid-19 cases, the government is frantically establishing field hospitals nationwide as demand for hospital beds outgrows supply.
Gender equality: We can all do more ... together
News, Thierry Mathou, Bernardo Cordova and Mohammad Naciri, Published on 27/03/2021
» On March 8, at the Alliance Française in Bangkok (The French cultural institute), supermodel and UN Women Regional Goodwill Ambassador Sirinya "Cindy" Bishop addressed a seminar leading to the Generation Equality Forum held on the occasion of International Women's Day. She repeated to the young Thai women in the audience that "Women don't need to be stronger. It is the world that needs to change the way it perceives women's strength."
City officials benefit from seat at top table
News, Sirinya Wattanasukchai, Published on 08/03/2021
» Months after watching the Prayut Chan-o-cha government launch a series of relief packages to ease the plight of the people, such as businesses that were closed as part of lockdown measures, Bangkok governor Aswin Kwanmuang might feel inclined to do the same. Last Monday, he pointedly forked out one billion baht from city coffers as part of a Covid-inspired cash handout.
Singapore's win shows street food scene needs push
News, Sirinya Wattanasukchai, Published on 21/12/2020
» Singapore has done it again! The island state's hawker culture has finally won Unesco recognition as an Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity.
Prompting our own demise
Oped, Postbag, Published on 06/12/2020
» Re: "CCSA mulls tighter curbs", (BP, Dec 5).