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Bangkok

September 27, 2011October 25, 2012

Suvarnabhumi Airport launched its first airport TV channel to boost tourism

BANGKOK, 27 September 2011 (NNT) – In its first ever television program, the Airport of Thailand (AoT) has unofficially launched its own channel produced by World Entertainment Network Ltd and will be broadcasting tourism and news programs that will cater to air travelers at Bangkok Suvarnabhumi Airport. World Entertainment Network Managing Director Mr. Ammarit Klomjitjaroen […]

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Bangkok

September 26, 2011

HM The King of Thailand grants audience to Yingluck

HM the King Bhumibol Adulyadej granted an audience to Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra Monday evening to listen to updates about the country’s situation including government’s response to ongoing floods. The meeting took place at the Siriraj Hospital. Read more: The Nation

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Bangkok

September 26, 2011January 7, 2014

Thailand Ministry of Transport Proposes Change in Bangkok Electric Train Project

Thailand’s Transport Ministry has proposed a change in the construction of the Bangkok Pink Line electric train route to use heavy rail instead of monorail, which will increase the budget to 62 billion baht. Transport Minister Air Chief Marshal Sukampon Suwannatat called a meeting of related agencies to discuss the ten planned electric train routes. […]

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Bangkok

September 23, 2011October 25, 2012

Bangkok Suvarnabhumi Airport flood prevention systems operational

BANGKOK, 23 September 2011 (NNT) – Bangkok Suvarnabhumi Airport is preparing for the possible rise in water levels around the airport as the water runoff from the North continues to increase. The Airports of Thailand (AoT) has sent a team of officers to inspect the areas around the airport and concluded that the current water […]

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Bangkok

September 23, 2011October 25, 2012

Bangkok Suvarnabhumi Airport to stamp out rogue taxi drivers

BANGKOK, 23 September 2011 (NNT) – The Airports of Thailand (AoT) Public Company Limited has boasted its security measure against illegal taxi drivers around Suvarnabhumi Airport by holding a seminar for police, hoping their operation would stamp out rogue taxi drivers completely. With a new batch of police force who came to work at the […]

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Bangkok

September 21, 2011October 25, 2012

Bangkok prepared for heavy rains in October

BANGKOK, 21 September 2011 (NNT) – Bangkok Governor M.R. Sukhumbhand Paribatra led a team of executives to inspect the water level in the eastern part of Bangkok in Min Buri district and to give survival kits to flood victims. The Governor inspected the water gates in Khlong 13 and Khlong 8 and visited a community […]

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Bangkok

September 21, 2011March 23, 2023

Bangkok Airport Link expansion to Pattaya and Don Mueang to be accelerated

BANGKOK, 21 September 2011 (NNT) – The Ministry of Transport is pushing for an expansion of Airport rail line with more stations to be added to Don Mueang and from the airport to Pattaya, Chon Buri province. In opening of the new dimension of the airport rail service, Deputy Transport Minister Mr. Kittisak Hattasongkroh said […]

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Bangkok

September 21, 2011

Bangkok ‘safe’ from river flooding

Bangkok is safe from being flooded by run-off from the North until at least mid-October because the deluge released by broken floodgates has been diverted into fields upstream along the Chao Phraya River, Irrigation Department deputy director-general Vira Vongsangnak said on Wednesday. Water from the rain-swollen Chao Phraya has already flooded 60,000 rai of Chiang […]

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