Entries tagged ‘Bangkok’
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Lack of Smart Regulation Causes Tension for Thai Masseuses
According to the government authority that regulates the country’s famous massage industry, a masseuse with a lifetime of informal training is no better than one who’d crack your pelvis in half.
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Participants in Innovation Workshops Create Solutions for the Futures of Their Cities
The second phase of the Informal City Dialogues’ workshops has begun, with attendees now not only looking toward their cities’ futures, but figuring out ways to impact them.
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One Month in Photos
From an annual water fight in Bangkok to the slum-based bars of Nairobi, our fortnightly roundup of photos from our bloggers.
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The D.I.Y. Disaster Plan: How Informal Networks Battled Bangkok’s Worst Flood
When a devastating flood struck Bangkok in 2011, many citizens had only their informal networks to rely on. In the first Forefront of the Informal City Dialogues, Dustin Roasa reports on how those networks helped save lives — and the city itself.
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Breaking Rules and Flouting Bans at Thailand’s Annual Nationwide Water Fight
At this year’s Songkran festival, preposterous bans on vending and booze were defiantly ignored, and Bangkok’s riotous informal spirit was on full display.
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Foreign Land Owners, Shoe-Repair Shops and Other Visions of Bangkok in 2040
In a surprisingly bold conversation between high-ranking formal participants and poorer informal ones, Bangkok’s Scenario Planning workshop was notable for its range of visions.
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Two Weeks in Photos
From street performers in Lima to volunteer ambulance squads in Bangkok, pictures taken by our bloggers on the streets of their cities.
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The White-Knuckle Nights of Bangkok’s Volunteer Ambulance Squads
In a city with only 150 formal ambulances for 12 million residents, ragtag crews of informal first-responders save people from fires, shootings and 16-foot pythons.
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Two Weeks in Photos
Our fortnightly roundup of photos from our blogs, from street vendors in Bangkok to moto-taxi drivers in Accra.
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“I Wish I Could Work on Those Dumpsites You See on TV”
Somjai Tuung-ngern, elderly and impoverished, works at the very bottom of Bangkok’s economy, with an informal job that is both her only chance of survival and a trap she can’t escape.
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