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  • Environment NewsHaze and air pollution returns to Bangkok this week
    ThaigerPublished: 11:06, 10 February 2019
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    Haze and air pollution returns to Bangkok this week

    Air pollution around the Thai capital is expected to get worse again this week with an increase in the level of PM2.5 dust particles. A high pressure cell over the central region is forecast and will degrade the air around Bangkok between February 13-15, according to the Meteorological Department. Temperatures will also drop slightly in the Central and Northern regions this week. The…

  • Northern Thailand NewsNorth-east wallows in heavy air pollution, Bangkok improves
    ThaigerPublished: 10:20, 09 February 2019
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    North-east wallows in heavy air pollution, Bangkok improves

    Bangkok has had a respite in the past week from almost two months of heavy air pollution. Whilst the Bangkok Metropolitan Authority, government and pollution control department dithered around with spurious explanations, the pollution persisted. Water cannons, fire departments spraying water from atop city towers, amateur drones flying tiny ‘clearing’ missions and asking factories to shut down, kept the media…

  • Northern Thailand NewsAir pollution problems move to Khon Kaen
    ThaigerPublished: 10:51, 07 February 2019
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    Air pollution problems move to Khon Kaen

    Pollution continues to choke the north-east province of Khon Kaen with the Air Quality Index reaching 187 yesterday, well beyond the “moderate” safety limit of 100. This morning it’s reading at 174. Associate Professor Dr Kittichai Triratanasirichai, a former president of Khon Kaen University, says the pollution in Khon Kaen had worsened mainly due to the burning of sugarcane and…

  • Bangkok NewsBangkok air pollution reduction schemes – FAIL
    Tim NewtonPublished: 13:52, 01 February 2019
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    Bangkok air pollution reduction schemes – FAIL

    OPINION Smog, air pollution, air quality, PM2.5 micron particulate. If you live in Bangkok it’s all the same thing. Four water-carrying drones took off from Bangkok City Hall this morning to join three fire engines in the latest assault on health-threatening haze. Bangkok is a city covering some 1,500 square kilometres with a population of over 8 million. The frequent…

  • Bangkok NewsBangkok air pollution: PM demands action and threatens limiting road traffic
    ThaigerPublished: 18:22, 31 January 2019
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    Bangkok air pollution: PM demands action and threatens limiting road traffic

    PHOTOS: The Nation The Thai PM says he is determined to step up measures to fight the worsening air pollution problem plaguing Bangkok. Limiting the use of vehicles with an odd-even day schedule is on the cards, he said. Speaking at the opening ceremony of “Our Country, Our Future” exhibition yesterday, Prayut warned that if the smog in Bangkok was…

  • Bangkok NewsBangkok Air Quality: BKK Governor calls for help as PM2.5 smog continues
    ThaigerPublished: 16:08, 31 January 2019
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    Bangkok Air Quality: BKK Governor calls for help as PM2.5 smog continues

    PHOTO: Jor Sor 100 traffic radio – Bangkok Air Quality Bangkok’s governor is calling on experts to provide advice on how best to tackle the severe air pollution that blankets the city and is causing the wrong sort of headlines for the capital. The Pollution Control Department reported 41 Greater Bangkok areas as having unsafe levels of PM2.5 – airborne…

  • Bangkok NewsBangkok smog: Odd-even number plate driving rule threatened
    ThaigerPublished: 09:20, 31 January 2019
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    Bangkok smog: Odd-even number plate driving rule threatened

    PHOTO: PM Prayut Chan-o-cha. Praying for a change in the weather? PM Prayut Chan-o-cha is warning that he might be forced to introduce the odd-even number rule for traffic in Bangkok if all other measures to ease the health-threatening smog problem in Bangkok and its peripherals fail (they have so far). With his Article 44 powers, the Prime Minister could…

  • Bangkok NewsBangkok smog: Students stay at home whilst drones buzz overhead
    ThaigerPublished: 08:00, 31 January 2019
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    Bangkok smog: Students stay at home whilst drones buzz overhead

    High smog levels in Bangkok are forcing more than 400 schools to close today and tomorrow in an attempt to protect children from harmful effects. The education department says it will review the situation over the weekend. The Thai capital city is experiencing some of its worst-ever ongoing air pollution levels which are exacerbated by ultra-fine dust particles known as…

  • Thailand NewsAuthorities urge curbs on burning incense sticks for Chinese New Year
    ThaigerPublished: 08:50, 30 January 2019
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    Authorities urge curbs on burning incense sticks for Chinese New Year

    The Public Health Ministry is calling on people to burn shorter incense sticks and avoid setting fire to paper offerings during this Chinese New Year in order to help prevent the air pollution situation from getting worse. Chinese people usually burn paper offerings in dedication to gods, goddesses or ancestors on special occasions such as the Chinese New Year, which…

  • Bangkok NewsBangkok air deteriorates today
    ThaigerPublished: 17:44, 29 January 2019
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    Bangkok air deteriorates today

    PHOTO: Bangkok skyline this morning – FM91 Traffic Pro Greater Bangkok’s air pollution was bad this morning, with 36 locations reporting the amount of PM2.5 micron pollutants rising beyond the safety limit of 50 micrograms of PM2.5 per cubic metre of air, with one area reaching as high as 113 micrograms. The Pollution Control Department say the breeze is too low…

  • Bangkok NewsGreenpeace outs Thailand’s worst smog areas
    ThaigerPublished: 12:17, 26 January 2019
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    Greenpeace outs Thailand’s worst smog areas

    At least 10 suburbs in nine Thai provinces are being called out by pollution watchdog Greenpeace. The organisation has revealed its rankings for 2018 based on a satellite map of PM2.5 concentrations in Thailand and the neighbouring countries of Myanmar, Laos and Cambodia. Greenpeace is calling for the Thai government to improve the Ambient (Outdoor) Air Quality Standards for PM2.5…

  • Bangkok NewsAuthorities play down air pollution problems in Bangkok
    ThaigerPublished: 15:27, 22 January 2019
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    Authorities play down air pollution problems in Bangkok

    The capital’s air pollution situation has worsened today as the quantity of the dangerous PM2.5 particles has risen for the first time to code-red status of above 90 micrograms per cubic metre of air at many locations. Nearly 10 Bangkok areas at 7.15am this morning were flagged “code red”, which is triggered when inhalable particles with diameters generally sized at…

  • Bangkok NewsBangkok smog: Police get out their hoses
    ThaigerPublished: 16:01, 20 January 2019
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    Bangkok smog: Police get out their hoses

    by Kornkamon Aksorndech Traffic police and volunteers sprayed water at four locations in Bangkok this morning in a bid to curb the dust and smog pollution. Pol Maj General Nithithorn Jintakanon, commander of the Traffic Police Division of the Metropolitan Police Bureau, presided at the dispatch of 150 police officers and volunteers from his headquarters on Vibhavadi-Rangsit Road. They chose…

  • Bangkok NewsBangkok smog: Sunday awakes to another day of ‘unhealthy’ air in the capital
    ThaigerPublished: 10:11, 20 January 2019
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    Bangkok smog: Sunday awakes to another day of ‘unhealthy’ air in the capital

    As promised, Bangkok and the central region have been battling with enduring smog this weekend. On Friday the Thai Meteorological Department warned of smog and haze continuing over the weekend in parts of the capital and in nearby Pattaya due to a weakening cold front in the north of country, bordering Laos. Given the fingers pointing at Bangkok’s old buses,…

  • Bangkok NewsBangkok smog: Police on the lookout for dirty exhaust from vehicles
    ThaigerPublished: 17:27, 16 January 2019
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    Bangkok smog: Police on the lookout for dirty exhaust from vehicles

    by Khanathit Srihirundaj It’s either a knee-jerk reaction, media stunt or something we hope to see a lot more of. Checking vehicles with plumes of dirty smoke coming out of their exhaust. To help curb fine-particle dust pollution in Bangkok, traffic police have increased the number of checkpoints where they will check vehicles spewing black exhaust smoke. The number of…

  • Bangkok NewsCloud seeding: Making fake rain in Bangkok
    ThaigerPublished: 12:17, 15 January 2019
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    Cloud seeding: Making fake rain in Bangkok

    In an effort to tackle the serious air pollution problem in Bangkok, the Department of Royal Rainmaking and Agricultural Aviation plans to deploy rainmaking planes to seed clouds and create ‘fake’ rain (it’s actually real rain but induced artificially). “Cloud seeding is a type of weather modification that aims to change the amount or type of precipitation that falls from clouds by dispersing substances into the air that…

  • Bangkok NewsBangkok blanketed by smog for at least another day
    ThaigerPublished: 14:47, 24 December 2018
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    Bangkok blanketed by smog for at least another day

    Bangkok and inner city suburbs continue to be covered in smog for the fifth straight day. The Pollution Control Department (PCD) reported that the amount of particulate matter smaller than 2.5 microns (PM2.5) in 19 roadside areas exceeded the safety limit of 50 micrograms per cubic metre, while nine other places had levels that could negatively impact health. The BMA…

  • Bangkok NewsWater cannons brought out to add humidity as authorities struggle with BKK smog
    ThaigerPublished: 08:33, 24 December 2018
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    Water cannons brought out to add humidity as authorities struggle with BKK smog

    Bangkokians have at least another day to inhale unhealthy levels of air pollution after Sunday, the fourth consecutive day the city has been shrouded in smog. On Sunday morning the measure of particulate matter in Tambon Pak Nam in Muang Samut Prakan was 93 micrograms per cubic metres, approaching what the WHO describes as ‘unhealthy’. The Nation reported that Samut…

  • Bangkok NewsBangkokians advised to stay inside until smog clears
    ThaigerPublished: 10:45, 23 December 2018
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    Bangkokians advised to stay inside until smog clears

    • Bangkokians warned that cheap face masks are useless • Weather Bureau says the current smog should clear in a few days PHOTO: Framepool The hazardous ultra-fine dust that has been sweeping through 20 districts of Bangkok will last for a few days, City Hall’s Environment Department warned on Friday. The Bangkok Post say that the warning corresponded with dust levels measured…

  • Bangkok NewsAuthorities struggle to find solutions for the BKK smog
    ThaigerPublished: 12:34, 22 December 2018
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    Authorities struggle to find solutions for the BKK smog

    PHOTO: The Nation “Normal cheap face masks are useless to protect people from air pollution.” Bangkok is suffering some severe air pollution as authorities struggle to find a way to reduce the dangerous levels of particulate matter floating around the city. A lack of wind is allowing the pollution, mostly from vehicle emissions and local industry, to hang around the…