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The Chana hustle
News, Pratch Rujivanarom, Published on 12/12/2021
» As the conflict over the controversial Chana industrial park project in Songkhla heats up, locals and academics insist the government needs to conduct a Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA) to defuse the dispute and ensure suitable development for the locality.
It's not just motorists at fault
News, Pratch Rujivanarom, Published on 07/02/2022
» Just two weeks after the tragic accident in which Dr Waraluck Supawatjariyakul, an ophthalmologist with the Faculty of Medicine at Chulalongkorn University, was killed by a high-powered motorcycle as she walked across Phayathai Road at a zebra crossing, another death on a pedestrian crossing was reported in Bangkok.
Songkhram River threat
News, Pratch Rujivanarom, Published on 16/04/2022
» Development projects and agrochemicals are threatening the ecology of the Songkhram River -- the last free-flowing river in the Northeast and one of the country's few remaining freshwater biodiversity hotspots, although some species are already nothing but a memory.
Making Bangkok more liveable
News, Pratch Rujivanarom, Published on 18/04/2022
» Bangkok's urban development strategy needs to be refocused on improving the living conditions for every citizen, experts urged, as findings emerged that most of the city's problems stem from socioeconomic disparity.
Governor sows seeds for a green future
News, Pratch Rujivanarom, Published on 11/07/2022
» In an effort to turn Bangkok into a green city, new Bangkok governor Chadchart Sittipunt has made an early start on a number of challenging projects to expand urban green spaces and improve public parks.
Bangkok braces for sixth wave with big spike in infections feared
News, Pratch Rujivanarom, Published on 25/07/2022
» Bangkok is bracing for a sixth wave of Covid-19, as Covid cases in the capital bounce back to over 10,000 new cases per day, threatening the city's public health system.
City Hall refuses to be sunk by floods
News, Pratch Rujivanarom, Published on 08/08/2022
» The Bangkok Metropolitan Administration (BMA) is preparing a major redevelopment of the capital's drainage system to increase its drainage capacity in a fresh drive to combat the city's flood problem.
War on city smog
News, Pratch Rujivanarom, Published on 11/10/2022
» The Bangkok Metropolitan Administration (BMA) is preparing to deal with the capital's upcoming smog season and has drawn up plans to work with related official agencies to mitigate air pollution at its source.
Bangkok is still sinking, and fast!
News, Pratch Rujivanarom, Published on 06/02/2023
» Getting Bangkok ready for the consequences of climate change is crucial for saving this megacity from being submerged under rising sea levels, climate experts say.
The highs and lows of liberalising weed
News, Pratch Rujivanarom, Published on 02/03/2023
» A boom in cannabis businesses has helped jolt the tourism industry back to life, as travellers flock to Thailand for marijuana tourism.