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An initiative to improve food security in Bangkok while reducing waste has been launched with the involvement of the capital’s 50 district offices. The offices...

Bangkok Gov. Chadchart Sittipunt announced seven area to accommodate demonstrations in line with the Public Assembly Act. The venue plan is aimed at keeping order...

Bangkok on Wednesday unveiled yet another plan to improve the city’s ability to deal ultra-fine particulate matter, noting that more accurate and transparent data...

Four people were injured and 40 shacks were destroyed by fire in a Bangkok slum Tuesday. The blaze in the Bon Kai neighborhood on Rama...

Bangkok police arrested a Chinese man with more than 6,000 packs of illegally imported cigarettes. Krua Baan Cha Teochew on Kanlapaphruek Road and a house...

Bangkok Gov. Chadchart Sittipunt vowed to keep newly legal marijuana out of schools as the government decriminalized cannabis without setting and rules or age...

Perhaps their noses are clogged, but Bangkok police claim they’ve not spotted anyone smoking pot in public since cannabis was decriminalized June 9. Pol. Maj....

Thailand is unlikely to extend operating hours for nightlife venues this week following widespread violation of legal closing times and two weekend drug raids...

A Bangkok taxi driver attacked a Chinese tourist with an iron bar in a fare dispute at a Bangkok entertainment complex. The driver, identified only...

. New Bangkok governor, Health Ministry backing changes

Newly elected Bangkok Gov. Chadchart Sittipunt said he would quickly discuss an end to the face-mask mandate and extending operating hours of the city’s...

. Convicts to be put to work scraping out capitals sewers

. In 2014, junta leader Prayut arrested Bangkok's new governor in coup.

Bangkok Governor-elect Chadchart Sittipunt and city councilors-elect from the Pheu Thai and Democrat parties on Tuesday inspected the delayed construction of the Ratchada-Rajapruek underpass,...

Chadchart Sittipunt began his first day as Bangkok’s unofficial 17th governor with a 5 a.m. run through Lumpini Park, with reporters trying to keep...

Eight years ago Sunday, Chadchart Sittipunt was arrested, handcuffed and detained during the 2014 coup. On May 22 he was elected democratically in a...

Schools are back in session and traffic is back to horrendous in Bangkok. Commuters faced congestion in many areas in the capital Tuesday as more...

The Chao Phraya River’s widest cable-stayed bridge scheduled to open in 2023 is now 72% complete, the Expressway Authority of Thailand said. The two-kilometer, eight-lane...

City Hall said – one more time – it intends to address air pollution issues in all areas and work to bring air quality...

Residents of Samut Prakan’s Muang District are using bio-fermented water to clean up rotten water in foul-smelling natural canals. The bio-fermented water can be made...

. Thailand Pass to end for Thai nationals this month under Health Ministry proposal

The Central Investigation Bureau raided six locations in Samut Prakan, Nonthaburi and Chanthaburi provinces to tackle slavery in the fishing industry. The raids followed the...

Bangkok is working on plans to transition Covid-19 to endemic status coronavirus conditions have improved. Permanent Secretary for Public Health Kiattiphum Wongrajit on Monday met...

A Bangkok waste-to-energy incinerator has been shut down after On Nut residents complained about the plant’s smell. Wanchai Phanomchai, director-general of the Department of Industrial...

Watch out for low-hanging wires in Samut Prakan. Residents of Bang Bo District are complaining that electrical wires from short utility poles leave dangerous lines...