8 people have been killed and 32 injured after a freight train collided with a public bus near the Airport Rail Link’s Makkasan Station on Saturday afternoon (16 May).

The Thai Ministry of Education has ordered the suspension of all unnecessary school field trips following an incident on Tuesday (1 October), in which a bus transporting students from a school in Uthai Thani caught fire, killing 20 children and three teachers.

<p>A peek at the lives of road sweepers in Bangkok, and their work on the streets of the capital city of a country that is ranked top in the world in road fatalities. We look at safety policies and the rewards for risking danger on the day that Thai society woke up to road safety, and when road sweepers lose their lives every year.</p>

<p>It’s rather nice of the Bangkok Post to ensure that we get a regular dose of capitalist economics through a biweekly op-ed from the Thailand Development Research Institute, a corporate-funded think tank that can be trusted to think corporately.</p>

<p>I got this cycling thing all wrong.</p> <p>Somehow I foolishly thought that the government and the BMA and everyone else who has been talking up the idea of cycling were thinking in terms of public transport.</p> <p>Silly, silly me.</p> <p>It now seems that cycling is an activity with a number of purposes, but none of them are related to using bikes to get somewhere.&nbsp;</p>