How to travel around Bangkok by Skytrain, MRT subway, Airport Rail Link, taxis (motorcycle, tuk-tuk and car) and boat (canal and river). Includes how to get to and from the two airports.
* Getting Around Bangkok—Lonely Planet
* Four Generations: Bangkok’s Riverboat Queens Gear Up For The Property Business—Forbes Asia
A mother and daughter are planning a multi-million dollar upgrade of Bangkok's passenger riverboats, while adding hospitality and real estate ventures to their 100-year-old company.
* Bangkok Shrine Bombing: Case (Pretty Much) Closed—Forbes
Yet Somyot acknowledged that the bombing might have been set in motion by Thailand’s July 8 deportation of 109 Uyghur men and women back to China at China’s request–despite pleas from the international community and Turkey’s willingness to welcome them as ethnic Turkic brethren.
* Thailand’s Shrine Bombing: The Case for Turkey’s Grey Wolves—Forbes
“Undoubtedly IS has the capability and it hinges on local franchises, local organizations,” Davis said. And Muslim Thais could well be members of a brigade composed of volunteers from the Malay peninisula now fighting in Syria because hundreds of Malaysians, as well as some Indonesians and Flipinos are already known to be among these fighters.
* How to visit the Thai market where a train drives through
After I saw this startling video of a Thai market ebbing and flowing over the tracks of a train, I had many questions. Where was the market? Can I go there? What is the history of this line? Mystery solved!
Susan J Cunningham 