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New Year to Begin With Four-Day Weekend, Cabinet Announces
BANGKOK — Begin 2017 with a four-day weekend thanks to the interim cabinet, which Tuesday added two more days to the New Year holidays.
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Watch the Paving of Bangkok Over 30 Years From Space
BANGKOK — Watch three incredible decades of change in 12 seconds as development erupts across the delta lowlands to make the Bangkok of today.
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Absolute Power Fails to Solve MRT’s Missing Link
BANGKOK — The junta leader’s special power may be a shortcut to tackling many of the nation’s problems, but it turns out that the missing link between two commuter rail lines isn’t one of them. The...
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On Nut Vendors Told to Move Out as Nana Vendors Move Back In
BANGKOK — The sidewalk bazaars of the On Nut area were living on borrowed time Friday under a city-imposed deadline to clear out, just as the vendors kicked out of Sukhumvit Road’s Nana area have...
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Muse Among Thonglor-Ekkamai Bars Raided by Military
BANGKOK — Soldiers hunting for contraband tobacco products raided three bars in the Thonglor and Ekkamai areas Thursday night.
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Police Weigh Australian Tourist’s Tuk-Tuk Rape Allegation
BANGKOK — Police had yet to rule Monday whether a 23-year-old Australian tourist was sexually assaulted by a tuk-tuk driver as she alleged earlier this month.
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Thai Fishing Fleets Roam Far to Break Rules: Greenpeace
BANGKOK — The six men lay in red body bags, lined up on a concrete dock. The first died almost three weeks before his ship reached Thailand; the last almost made it alive but died the day before the...
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Developer, Engineer Behind Collapsed Building Charged
BANGKOK — Police said Saturday they charged engineers responsible for the demolition of a building in Soi Sukhumvit 87 where at least two workers were killed when it collapsed and two remain missing.
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Renowned Photographer Axed for Plagiarizing Royal Photos
BANGKOK — A man’s suspicion over a photo he saw at a fair earlier this month led to the outing of a world-renowned photographer for plagiarizing photos of the royal family.
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Police Weigh Computer Crime Act Prosecution for FB Bangkok Bomb Hoax
BANGKOK — Those responsible for a bogus news article that triggered Facebook to warn people there had been a large explosion in the capital could be prosecuted under the Computer Crime Act, police...
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Run With Hello Kitty and More Wacky Races This Year
BANGKOK — Keep those New Year’s resolutions a little while longer with several fun runs coming up that anyone can join.
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Ride the Rails to 2 Nights of Art, Music, Meet-Ups in Bangkok (And Chiang Mai)
BANGKOK — Hop on, hop off, grasshopper. By BTS Skytrain, river ferry or tuk-tuk, go exploring at 45 galleries and art spaces next month at the fourth annual Galleries Night.
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City Hall Fails to Make BTS Accessible 2 Years After Court Ruling
BANGKOK — City Hall has offered yet another vague deadline after the last passed for it to comply with a court order and retrofit its BTS Skytrain stations with elevators. A year after the court’s...
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Wheelchair Rally to File Class-Action Lawsuit Over BTS Accessibility at Court
BANGKOK — Some had no legs and propelled themselves along. Some were paralyzed and pushed by companions. A few zipped along under electric power.
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Chinese New Year to Skip Chinatown
BANGKOK — The Year of the Rooster will have less to crow about this year as for the first time in many years, Chinese New Year will not be celebrated on Yaowarat Road.
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How Long to Install BTS Elevators? City Hall Says 3 Years.
BANGKOK — Days after a class-action lawsuit was filed against City Hall for failing to make the BTS Skytrain accessible to disabled commuters, officials said Monday it will take a year to complete the...
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Lacking Leverage or Clout, River Residents Give Up Homes For Boardwalk
BANGKOK — It will be difficult, Sophee Prae-eiam believes, for some of her neighbors who’ve fished in front of their homes for decades to relocate into a five-story flat offered by the government....
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Shophouse Fire Kills 5 in Northeast Bangkok
BANGKOK — A three-story shophouse went up in flames early Wednesday morning in northeastern Bangkok, killing five people inside.
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Massive Chao Phraya Redevelopment Gets Start Date
BANGKOK — A controversial plan to remake the Chao Phraya River will break ground in June, city officials announced Monday. A design submitted by two universities contracted to do the work is expected...
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Bangkok Wakes to Less Loy Krathong Mess Than Usual
When workers went out early Tuesday morning for the messy business of cleaning up Loy Krathong, they were pleased to find most of Bangkok’s krathongs had gone organic.
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