Sukhumbhand

The Bangkok Metropolitan Administration (BMA) has announced that it will cancel all of its official Songkran celebrations and religious occasions in the wake of the escalating anti-government demonstrations and the state of emergency.

Bangkok governor Sukhumbhand Paribatra said Tuesday that Bangkok is at risk of terrorist attacks by insurgents traveling from Thailand's southern provinces during the New Year holiday period, local newspaper The Nation reported on its website.

Nearly 1,000 homeless people and street hawkers vowed to return to Sanam Luang yesterday after being brushed aside as part of the Bangkok Metropolitan Administration's (BMA) latest attempt to tidy up the area.

Thailand's Bangkok Metropolitan Administration (BMA) Tuesday ordered class suspension of all of its 435 schools, 200 nurseries, and 13 occupational training centers from July 15 to 19 to curb the rising A/H1N1 flu virus outbreak.

Elephants idling outside discos or lumbering through traffic have been part of Bangkok's colorful nightlife for nearly two decades. Now authorities want to send them back to the jungle.