Test run of Red Line delayed 4 months
Train services from Hua Lamphong to be cut
published : 10 Mar 2021 at 19:47
32 The test run for Bangkok s Red Line will be postponed from March 26 to July 28. (Photo by Chanat Katanyu)
The test run of Bangkok s Red Line rail service has been postponed until July, while the number of the trains using Hua Lamphong station is to be reduced to 22 trips per day, focusing on the rush hours only.
Transport Minister Saksayam Chidchob said on Wednesday that when the State Railway of Thailand celebrates its anniversary on March 26, it would only inspect the Red Line Bang Sue-Rangsit and Bang Sue-Taling Chan railway line and facilities, instead of launching the test run as earlier planned.
Bang Khunthian gets field hospital
Geriatric facility to house mild cases
published : 9 Jan 2021 at 10:20 Squaring up for good luck: Squares for social distancing are market out on the pavement for devotees who pay respect to the statue of Lord Ganesh outside CentralWorld shopping mall in the capital’s Ratchaprasong area. (Photo by Apichart Jinakul)
Following the rise in Covid-19 cases, the Bangkok Metropolitan Administration (BMA) is setting up a field hospital in the compound of Bang Khunthian Geriatric Hospital with 500-600 beds to treat infected people.
Located in the Bang Khunthian area on the outskirts of Bangkok, a section of the newly built hospital will be used to accommodate the asymptomatic infected or those with mild symptoms.
A fraught year in politics
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published : 30 Dec 2020 at 11:02
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It is often said that Thailand resolves around political events. Here are the five most dynamic and attention-grabbing stories the youth-led, anti-government protests, the Future Forward Party’s spectacular fall, Gen Prayut Chan-o-cha surviving the Constitutional Court’s rulings that threatened to deliver the death warrant on his premiership, the Provincial Administrative Organisation (PAO) elections held for the first time in six years and the internal turbulence experienced by the main opposition Pheu Thai Party which have left their mark this year.
1. Anti-government protests
Anti-government protesters, most of whom were students, fill Ngam Wong Wan and Phahon Yothin roads at Kasetsart intersection in Bangkok on Oct 19. (Photo by Varuth Hirunyatheb)