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City can stay dry this year, says expert
News, Ploenpote Atthakor, Published on 14/09/2012
» With the severe flooding that is inundating Sukhothai, people in provinces downstream, including Bangkokians, are asking the same question: "Will we be hit by a mega flood again?"
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Police show of force just one more own goal
News, Ploenpote Atthakor, Published on 21/09/2012
» Without doubt, the confrontation between Democrat Party supporters and about 200 police officers has inflicted damage to the force, even though there was no violence. The officers turned up in full strength at the party's headquarters on Tuesday in a show of solidarity for Metropolitan Police Bureau chief Kamronwit Thoopkrachang.
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Heritage falls to big business in Amphawa
News, Ploenpote Atthakor, Published on 05/10/2012
» All of a sudden, we are made to believe that things are fine in Amphawa _ a popular tourist town in tiny Samut Songkhram province.
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'October spirit' lacking as reds mark uprising
News, Ploenpote Atthakor, Published on 19/10/2012
» I happened to find myself in the middle of a red-shirt gathering at the Democracy Monument on Sunday. It was Oct 14, and the people in red were celebrating an historic event associated with our nation's democracy _ the student-led uprising in 1973 against Field Marshal Thanom Kittikachorn and his clan.
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Old-town communities under threat
News, Ploenpote Atthakor, Published on 30/10/2012
» The new version of the Bangkok Comprehensive Plan and its new town planning rules are a threat to communities in the city's old town quarters, in particular Charoen Chai community and Woeng Nakornkasem near Chinatown.
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Preservation pleas falling on deaf ears
News, Ploenpote Atthakor, Published on 02/11/2012
» The danger modern development poses for what remains of Bangkok's heritage came into sharp relief this week as a conservation network brought to public attention the adverse effects planned projects will have on old-town communities.
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Safety first, then power to the pedallers
News, Ploenpote Atthakor, Published on 16/11/2012
» Can Bangkok really become a city of bicycles?
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Prayers won't get you safety on the roads
News, Ploenpote Atthakor, Published on 30/11/2012
» Even though I am not a gambler, my last trip to Siem Reap in Cambodia, through the Aranyaprathet checkpoint which is just a stone's throw from a casino complex, made me feel very much like I was taking a gamble.
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In courthouse kerfuffle, hubris reigns supreme
News, Ploenpote Atthakor, Published on 14/12/2012
» If you still don't know this, it's about time you did: We are losing the old Supreme Court building, a vintage structure that is part of our national heritage. It is being quietly demolished.
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Courthouse death sentence
News, Ploenpote Atthakor, Published on 26/12/2012
» A high-profile dispute over the old Supreme Court building has reached a dead end. The Supreme Court staunchly insists it has the right to continue with its plan to replace the ageing structure with a new, much bigger office, citing a cabinet resolution it acquired in 1988, but the Fine Arts Department and a group of conservationists want to keep the old building for a simple reason _ it is national heritage.
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