"Khao San"

It will be a long road to recovery for Khao San Road businesses despite the government aims to reopen Bangkok to all-important foreign tourists from November 1, the Khao San Business Association made it clear on Wednesday.

Bangkok will open walking streets on Khao San Road and the road along Ong Ang canal on weekends from October to stimulate tourism.

Some shops and venues along Khao San Road have started catering to night visitors again, but far from the bustle of the past the famous road is mostly quiet.

The Bangkok Metropolitan Administration has announced it will spend Bt48.4 million to improve the landscape of popular tourist destination Khao San Road in Phra Nakhon district, BMA deputy governor Sakoltee Phattiyakul said on Monday.

Police and officials from the Office of the Food and Drug Administration arrested nine Thais late Thursday night for selling balloons filled with laughing gas to foreign tourists on Bangkok’s Khao San Road. 

Two Chinese men have been arrested for allegedly stealing from unsuspecting tourists at Suvarnabhumi Airport.

Metropolitan Police Bureau chief Pol Lt-General Sutthipong Wongpin has instructed police officers not to take days off during the Songkran holidays, so as to provide beefed-up public security.

BANGKOK CITY Hall on Wednesday relaxed its former plan to completely ban vendors from the footpaths of Khao San Road, by now allowing them to sell their wares from 6pm until midnight.

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Bangkok city hall on August 1 will begin a crackdown on vendors encroaching on sidewalks in the Khao San Road tourist destination, says the Bangkok Metropolitan Administration deputy-governor Sakoltee Phattiyakul.

Tourist police have arrested a Vietnamese woman for allegedly being an accomplice of a gang that pickpocketed Songkran revellers in Bangkok, deputy police chief Pol Maj-General Surachet Hakpal said early on Thursday.

An alleged pickpocketing gang – a Vietnamese man and a Cambodian man and woman – were arrested amid Sunday’s Songkran revelry on Khao San Road in Bangkok.