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Govt targets poor-safety contractors
News, Post Reporters, Published on 18/01/2026
» The government is poised to halt state-owned construction projects or cancel contracts with contractors that fail to protect public safety, after another accident on Rama II Road on Saturday added to a string of recent construction fatalities.
Demolition of Aetas set to commence
News, Chairith Yonpiam, Published on 07/01/2026
» The Bangkok Metropolitan Administration (BMA) has taken its first concrete steps towards demolishing the long-controversial Aetas Ruamrudee building after more than a decade of delays and legal wrangling.
Is there a case for IMF gold sales?
News, Tim Hirschel-Burns & Marina Zucker-Marques, Published on 14/10/2025
» With developing countries facing intense financial pressure and developed countries slashing foreign aid, it can be tempting to dream of stumbling across a pot of gold. Dream no longer: The International Monetary Fund is currently sitting on 90.5 million ounces of the metal.
Buried construction worker declared dead, search for body continues
News, Online Reporters, Published on 20/05/2025
» A construction worker who fell into a deep excavation hole on Lan Luang Road in Bangkok was declared dead on Tuesday, as the search continued for his body.
Singaporean man suspected in local woman's death
News, Wassayos Ngamkham, Published on 28/03/2025
» Police are looking for a Singaporean man who was seen with his Thai girlfriend at a condominium building in Bangkok before she was found dead.
Police to probe cop caught cheating in judges exam
News, Wassayos Ngamkham, Published on 18/03/2025
» National police chief Pol Gen Kittharath Punpetch has ordered Provincial Police Region 8 to probe a police colonel who was caught cheating in an examination organised by the Administrative Court to select new judges.
Tit-for-tat tariffs as Trump escalates trade war
News, Kate Sullivan & Josh Wingrove, Published on 08/03/2025
» US President Donald Trump delivered on his threat to hit Canada and Mexico with sweeping import levies and doubled an existing charge on China, spurring swift reprisals that plunged the world economy into a deepening trade war. Yesterday, Mr Trump backtracked and postponed Canada and Mexico tariffs for a month.
Eight migrants found under pile of corn
News, Online Reporters, Published on 06/02/2025
» TAK - Eight illegal migrants from Myanmar who were hiding under a pile of corn were arrested along with a truck driver in the border district of Mae Sot on Thursday.
BMA defends bus shelter project
News, Supoj Wancharoen and Chairith Yonpiam, Published on 04/02/2025
» The Bangkok Metropolitan Administration (BMA) has defended the transparency of a bus shelter procurement project following claims of improper design for sun and rain protection, as well as seating capacity.
Aung Ko Ko's death shines light on army impunity
News, Matthew Smith, Published on 25/11/2024
» In January this year, the bruised and bloody body of a Myanmar man named Aung Ko Ko was found near the bustling town of Mae Sot, Thailand -- just over the border from a deadly revolutionary war in Myanmar. But it wasn't armed conflict in Myanmar that claimed Aung Ko Ko's 37-year-old life. Evidence points to the Thai military.