Haze pollution is exceeding safe levels in 36 provinces, particularly in the North, while Bangkok and surrounding provinces will remain blanketed in smog for two more days.
Joy amid hardship
published : 10 May 2021 at 04:30
1 ML Varudh Varavarn, the founder and director of Vin Varavarn Architects, designs affordable micro-houses for low-income families in Klong Toey.
Rusty tin shacks sprawl under high-rises and billboards. Rubbish scatters and floats down the foul-smelling river. Last year, fire broke out near a local mosque. With the third wave of the coronavirus outbreak, the Klong Toey neighbourhood is hanging by a thread.
Naowarat Sayan, 66, has lived in the Klong Toey slum for 40 years. Five members one of them falling sick cram themselves in a dilapidated house with a leaky roof and rickety wall. Thousands are living in what is the oldest and largest ghetto covering 198