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Greenpeace Thailand says Bangkok among cities with worst air quality

Bangkok is placed at the 9th spot of the world’s top 10 cities with the worst air quality, Greenpeace Thailand said today quoting US air quality index (AQI)On top of the list is New Delhi with 309 on US AQI, Dhaka in Bangladesh with 293, ...

Smog serious threat to public health: experts

Air pollution blankets capital for third day in a row, with prospects of prolonged unhealthy air quality levels.Authorities must take the air pollution problem in Bangkok seriously and strictly enforce mitigation measures to protect people’s health, academics said, while warning of serious financial costs to ...

Pratch Rujivanarom

Asean cities to ‘GET SMART’

Thailand to lead smart-city project with Bangkok, Phuket and Chonburi featuring prominently in cross-border partnership.Thailand will play a leading role in implementing the smart-city network covering 26 cities in the 10 Asean countries as the Kingdom takes over as the bloc’s chair next year, Digital ...

Asina Pornwasin & Supalak Ganjanakhundee

AI, big data technology used in pilot project to ease Bangkok’s traffic congestion

Four main roads in Bangkok are included in a five-year pilot project aimed at easing traffic congestion in the capital with the help of artificial intelligence (AI) and big data analytical technology.The pilot project is part of the Communication Ministry’s “Sustainable Mobility Project”, which is ...

Bangkok’s sinking truth

For the more or less 10 million people living in Thailand’s capital city of Bangkok, flooding is a common and recurring phenomenon. This is partly due to the city’s geographic location at the southern end of the Chao Phraya River Basin, as well as its ...

Principle of voluntary cooperation not helping tackle climate change

“Building on the progress made so far, countries now need to take a decisive step forward in preparing the ambitious and balanced outcome that we need in Katowice [Poland],” executive secretary of UN Climate Change, Patricia Espinosa, said at a press conference in Bangkok on ...

Piyaporn Wongruang

US, allies roasted as UN climate talks end in Bangkok

Developing countries rounded on the United States and its allies at emergency climate talks Sunday (Sep 9), accusing the world’s richest nations of stalling a deal aimed at preventing runaway global warming.Experts from around the world have been locked in discussions this week in Bangkok, ...

Bangkok meet finds ways for 5G business success

Policy makers and industry players from Asia-Pacific countries have been gathering in Bangkok to discuss ways to maximise the benefits in store with a transition to fifth generation (5G) mobile communications technology.Keep reading ...

Climate change for all to see at BACC

The Bangkok Art and Culture Centre opens an exhibition of disturbing photographic proof.A lone polar bear scrabbles across a melting iceberg. Beijing lovers wear masks to shield their lungs from polluted air. A tiny fish is trapped inside a floating plastic bag off Thailand’s Koh ...

Phatarawadee Phataranawik

Pier-ing into the future of the Chao Phraya River

Design project targets three wharves that haven’t been upgraded in decades, to make life easier for commuters as boat traffic multiplies.Property development is transforming land near the Chao Phraya River but one thing remains unchanged: A series of decrepit piers that lie along it. Keep ...

Supoj Wancharoen

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