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All Songkran festival activities cancelled in Bangkok

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 to skip Earth Hour 2010 project, other Thai provinces to participate

Thailand's capital will not join the Earth Hour 2010 campaign with other countries worldwide to turn off lights for one hour on 27 March night due to the ongoing political unrest in the country, Bangkok Governor MR Sukhumbhand Paribatra has announced.

Burma Threatens Thailand's stability: Bangkok Governor

SIMON ROUGHNEEN The Irrawaddy 09.12.2009
Governor: Bangkok at risk of attacks by southern insurgents

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.

Burma Threatens Thailand's stability: Bangkok Governor

BANGKOK—Speaking at a dinner talk on Tuesday night, city governor M.R. Sukhumbhand Paribatra said that Thailand's already-precarious stability faces an additional spoiler across the border in Burma.

Homeless ejected from Sanam Luang

Mayuree Sukyingcharoenwong, Jeerawan Prasomsap The Nation 01.09.2009
Homeless ejected from Sanam Luang

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.

Bangkok Metropolitan Administration to hand out oseltamivir on Monday

The Bangkok Metropolitan Administration is now surveying clinics in the capital city and will distribute oseltamivir antiviral medicine to them from Monday, Bangkok governor Sukhumbhan Baripatra said on Saturday afternoon.

All schools in Bangkok ordered to suspend classes amid rising A/H1N1 outbreak

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.

Bangkok's Sanam Luang off limits for fugitive Thaksin's birthday bash

Supporters of fugitive former prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra will not be allowed to hold a planned birthday bash later this month for their hero at Bangkok's Royal Grounds, the capital's governor said Tuesday.

Thailand offers Bangkok elephants for adoption

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.

Bangkok Governor: New Election Will Not Solve Political Conflicts

The Bangkok governor says a snap election is not the best solution to the political crisis facing the country, as the outcome would rouse further confrontation between conflicting sides.


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