Bangkok: A dream city at last?

ECO CAFE

Published: 22 Feb 2013 at 00.00
Newspaper section: Business

As we await the exciting Bangkok governor election on March 3, I have a dream that Bangkok will be full of trees and parks and have good public transport. I have a dream it will take me only 30 minutes (instead of one hour) to go to work and that I will have a choice not to drive to work.

I have a dream that we will have many self-contained communities where children need not commute so far to go to a good school and I need not drive so long to go to a nice park or a good hospital. I have a dream that Bangkok will have a great music and nightlife culture where I can get together with friends peacefully after work.

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boons
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Discussion 2 : 22 Feb 2013 at 18.292
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This economic boom is wonderful. What's the industry that's booming again? Housing? Thailand is a 75% export economy in a world of collapsing demand and withering importers. And yet, through a magical combination of unsustainable populist policies, credit growth, artificial wage increases, hot-money inflows and willful ignorance, Thailand is soaring (albeit briefly) as the world contracts. It's actually quite spectacular to watch. I wouldn't have thought it possible after the global spectacles of Greece, Spain and Ireland. But the ability for people to perceive bubbles while within them appears remarkably limited.
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Discussion 1 : 22 Feb 2013 at 10.101
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A "dream " it is and as in most dreams ..................
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