Author: Peter Carlisle

The Interior Ministry is being asked to scrutinise local administration organisations’ purchases of solar-powered street lights nationwide after ones bought in Samut Prakan turned out to be unusually expensive. The alleged irregularity was revealed yesterday by Public Sector Anti-Corruption Commission (PACC) secretary-general Prayong Preeyajit who found a local administration body in Samut Prakan spent 175,000 baht […]

An image of the damage and repair of a sinkhole on Phetkasem Road taken from the Facebook page of MR Sukhumbhand Paribatra. Traffic has returned to normal on Bangkok’s Phetkasem Road where a giant sinkhole closed the street for hours Thursday night. According to the Facebook page of Bangkok governor MR Sukhumbhand Paribatra, the 3.5-by-1-metre […]

Residents told to wait 6 months for repairs An engineering team inspects the land substance at the Baan Klang Krung housing estate in Ratchavipha on Monday. (Bangkok Post photo) Heavy land subsidence has been found in parts of the Baan Klang Krung housing estate in Ratchavipha after a team of Engineering Institute of Thailand (EIT) […]

CENTRAL Pattana, Thailand’s largest shopping-mall developer, said yesterday that it would cancel its plan to develop residential and commercial real-estate projects at its Central WestGate shopping complex in order to accommodate space for Ikea, which will set up its second Thai store there. Wallaya Chirathivat, Central Pattana’s senior executive vice president for business development and […]

BANGKOK: — Pathum Thani residents seek help from military junta to stop thrash burning power plant projectPathum Thani residents seek help from military junta to stop thrash burning power plant project. Local residents of Chiang Rak Yai subdistrict in Pathum Thani province have asked the military junta to stop the construction of a trash-burning power […]

Residents in the Pracha Songkhro area of Huai Khwang district gather in early June with a banner urging the Orange Line to travel on Rama IX Road instead. (Photo by Apichit Jinakul) The Mass Rapid Transit Authority has reversed course on the route for its Orange Line extension, agreeing to return to the original plan […]

The Airports of Thailand Plc (AoT) aims to expand Suvarnabhumi and Don Mueang airports to be able to cope with up to 120 million passengers a year by 2021, according to the AoT president, Nitinai Sirismatthakarn. The AoT is working on a master plan to develop the airports in line with growth in the aviation […]

Power pylons surge above a village in northern Phuket. Photo: Tanyaluk Sakootf Yet the move to upgrade Phuket’s power supply is critical, say officials from the Electricity Generation Authority of Thailand (Egat), with the island consuming more electricity with each passing year. Phuket’s demand this year requires 391MW of electrical supply, Wichai Simadhamnand, Assistant Governor […]