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  • International Standards for the Raised Crosswalk

    International Standards for the Raised Crosswalk

    A raised crosswalk is a zebra crossing lifted flush with the sidewalk, with a speed table serving as the crossing itself. Cars still drive over it, but they must slow down. If they don’t, the driver feels the bump for sure. Its heart is height, about 10 cm. If the person waiting to cross is a wheelchair user, a small-built person or a child, that height lifts their gaze from under the hood up near the windshield. Driver and pedestrian see each other at once, and once everyone sees each other, the car slows first. Height standards for the hump…

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  • Rain and Flooding Situation Across Thailand

    Rain and Flooding Situation Across Thailand

    Heavy rain has continued for days. This morning the Meteorological Department issued its 10th warning (226/2569), cautioning of heavy to very heavy rain nationwide until 27 September, with a strong low-pressure cell sitting over the lower Central region, Bangkok and its surrounding provinces. The Thailand flooding situation still needs close watching. For the Bangkok flooding today, the Governor signed the Bangkok Metropolitan Administration’s public disaster prevention and relief command announcement on disaster-affected areas, expanding the zone from 3 districts and 13 sub-districts – Nong Chok, Suan Luang and Khan Na Yao – to all 50 districts, effective 25 September and…

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  • Nene Royal phenomenon – what is it telling us?

    Nene Royal phenomenon – what is it telling us?

    Let’s admit it straight: Thailand🇹🇭 has developed too slowly for decades. Do we notice it? Thai people are brilliant when they get to do it themselves. The nene royal phenomenon is the latest proof: Nene Royal Thailand – first winner of America’s Got Talent season 21, the first Thai to win that stage. Before her, Lisa, Milli and many others reached world level on their own money and their own patience. Lisa holds 7 Guinness World Records, was the first solo K-pop artist to win an MTV VMA, and drew 73.6 million views in 24 hours. Milli was the first…

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  • Nene, the Amazing Little Girl, Nene Royal ROCKSTAR!!

    Nene, the Amazing Little Girl, Nene Royal ROCKSTAR!!

    It’s official: the Nene Royal AGT winner moment happened, with Terry Crews announcing her name live in Pasadena, California, USA🇺🇸. The AGT season 21 winner is a 16-year-old from Phuket – the first Thai ever to take that title. For Thailand🇹🇭 this isn’t only pride: she is already a daughter of the whole world. People call Nene the amazing little girl. Her road to AGT season 21 didn’t start in a fancy rehearsal room but at Naka Market – the “back-of-the-car market”, as Phuket people say – in Muang district, Phuket. There she carried the first guitar her family bought…

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