"Canal"

The Mae Kha Canal in Chiang Mai’s Muang district is being given a new look, and many social-media users hope it will come out looking like Seoul’s Cheonggyecheon stream or the Otaru canal in Japan.

Bangkok Governor Chadchart Sittipunt held a meeting with the Tourism Authority of Thailand on Wednesday to discuss plans to promote tourism in Bangkok, now that several Covid restrictions have been lifted.

Songkhla marked World Environment Day by launching a project to preserve the southern province’s main water supply.

As part of moves to develop the capital’s canals and improve the lives of residents, the Bangkok Metropolitan Administration (BMA) is getting ready to launch an electric boat service in the Saen Saep canal.

The last three households of the Prem Prachakorn community were finally talked into moving out by the Bangkok Metropolitan Authority (BMA) on Friday.

Boat service in Phasi Charoen Canal will be temporarily suspended from January 1 onward as the operator needs to find a new location for its maintenance and refuel centre, said service operator Krungthep Thanakom (KT) on Wednesday.

Sunday morning saw scores of Bangkok kayakers collecting garbage from canals in Chatuchak area as part of City Hall’s “Kayak Rak Khlong” (Kayaking to Protect Canals) project.

Saved in time

A TikTok user captured a truck gradually sliding into a canal in Pathum Thani’s Khlong Luang district.

Bangkok Metropolitan Administration (BMA) has announced plans to upgrade scenery and transport along the historic Bang Lamphu canal, to create a new tourism route through old Bangkok.

Twelve electric ferry boats that will ply the eastern end of Bangkok’s Saen Saep canal from August were anointed in a religious ceremony on Monday.

No boats will be plying Bangkok’s Saen Saeb canal from April 11 to 15 because the company running the service is giving its 350-strong team of drivers and fare collectors a Songkran break for the first time in two years.