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Published: Oct 28, 2021
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.
Published: Sep 15, 2020
Bangkok will open walking streets on Khao San Road and the road along Ong Ang canal on weekends from October to stimulate tourism.
Published: Jun 20, 2020
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.
Published: Jul 22, 2019
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.
Published: Jul 12, 2019
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.
Published: Jun 02, 2019
Two Chinese men have been arrested for allegedly stealing from unsuspecting tourists at Suvarnabhumi Airport.
Published: Apr 10, 2019
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.
Published: Oct 17, 2018
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.
Published: Aug 07, 2018
Thais appreciate orderliness but happily live in a general mess. Perhaps the junta expects too much
Published: Jul 24, 2018
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.
Published: Apr 19, 2018
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.
Published: Apr 17, 2018
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.