Stakeholders from Thailand met in Agra, India during a local networking session of BAQ 2004 to discuss feasible actions to improve air quality. The session -- which was chaired by Mingquan Wichayarangsaridh -- resulted in specific commitments to be implemented over the next two years.
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| Southern line trains resume service | Passengers flock to use train service after more southern bound trains resume operation on Thursday with six trains scheduled to run to the capital Thursday.  |
| Thailand to propose B2bn road to Tavoy | Thailand will propose a 2-billion-baht, 130-kilometre road linking Kanchanaburi to the deep-sea port of Tavoy in Burma at the Asean Summit to be held next month. By Phusadee Arunmas  |
| Green fuels to make up 20% | The share of alternative fuels in Thailand's total energy consumption is expected to rise sharply in the next 15 years, allowing the country to cut greenhouse gas emissions by nearly fourfold.  |
| Sipa takes on Bangkok's traffic | The Software Industry Promotion Agency (Sipa) is to collaborate on research and development of intelligent traffic systems with the French National Institute for Transport and Safety Research (INRETS).  |
| Bangkok Footpaths | There is something strange about the footpaths on Bangkok streets, something that defies the commonsensical notion that a wealthy, highly urbanised and extremely popular tourist city should have footpaths that are at least walkable, if not convenient, clean, user-friendly and, dare we hope, beautiful. Try walking down most of the crowded streets in Thailand's capital.  |
| Authorities to monitor air pollution | Health authorities will step up surveillance in the hazy northern provinces as the number of patients suffering from lung cancer, heart and respiratory diseases increases.  |
| Three-wheelers destroy peace | A pre-requisite in my daily life and at work involves meeting with people who happen to share the same predicament: they all seem to suffer from noise pollution. By Jessada Tandhasetti, Bangkok Post  |
| BMTA ready for free bus service | Deputy Transport Minister Songsak Thongsri on Thursday morning inspected the Bangkok Mass Transit Authority's readiness in launching the free bus services.  |
| Thai government planning to cut CO2 emissions by 15-20% | Extreme weather conditions, rising sea levels and health problems potentially related to environmental pollution have prompted Thailand’s new government to draft a plan that will require major industrial companies to cut carbon dioxide emissions by 15-20 percent.  |
| Bestlin wins bus contract | Bestlin Group has won a bid to supply the Bangkok Metropolitan Administration (BMA) with 45 air-conditioned, gas-fuelled buses costing 388 million baht for the Bangkok Rapid Transit (BRT) project. By Supoj Wancharoen  |
| Bangkok's air pollution slowly evaporating | For a decade, Bangkok cobbler Swang Porgaew has staked out a place beneath a staircase where he fixes shoes while wearing a mask to filter out the toxic fumes from his industrial glue and the city buses.  |
| CDM Country Guides | CDM Country Guides is a series of manuals on CDM project development for Cambodia, China, India, Indonesia, the Philippines, and Thailand developed by IGES. These guidebooks aim at facilitating CDM project developments in Asia by providing essential information to both project developers and potential investors.  |
| Thailand Air Pollution Center of Excellence | With the intention of efficiently solving the air pollution problems in all areas nationwide in accordance with the Constitution of the Royal Kingdom of Thailand B.E. 2540 (1997) and the Act on Decentralisation Procedures for Local Administration Organisations B.E. 2542 (1999), which both emphasise on decentralising the State powers and authorities toward the local communities for their independence and self-decisiveness, Pollution Control Department (PCD) has therefore established Thailand Air Pollution Centre of Excellence (TAPCE) on 14 January 2002.  |
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