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Visual feast of flowers for Bangkokians

November 29, 2020

Bangkok's Mahakan Fort has been converted into a flower garden, covering an area of 4 rai (0.64 hectare) and 300 square metres.

Mahakan Fort opens as public park

July 25, 2018

Five months after its last residents surrendered in a high-profile battle over Mahakan Fort, the early Rattanakosin-era landmark began its new life as a public park on Tuesday afternoon.

Culture being consumed by modernism

MONDAY, APRIL 30, 2018

Re: Folk history, culture at risk unless officials learn from Mahakan Fort fiasco: academics

Drawing a line

WEDNESDAY, APRIL 25, 2018

Progress blurs history and communities, fatally so at Mahakan Fort, but at Valley of Hope in Malaysia, there's still hope

Worry over abandoned cats after Mahakan Fort Community vacated

TUESDAY, APRIL 24, 2018

As the last residents in Bangkok's centuries-old Mahakan Fort Community vacate their homes on Wednesday, Thai social media users this week expressed concern for more than 20 cats that will be left behind.

Mahakan Fort Community to live on in the virtual world

MONDAY, APRIL 23, 2018

THE HERITAGE of the Mahakan Fort Community will live on in digital form, as an archive of this old Bangkok quarter will be created and maintained online via crowdsourcing.

Mahakan Fort community loses ‘landmark’ House 99

FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 09, 2018

The demolition on Thursday of the “landmark” House No 99 in Bangkok’s Mahakan Fort community did not bode well for the remaining 15 antique wooden homes, independent city-planning expert Paranee Sawadirak said.

Committee hears proposal to allow longtime Mahakan Fort residents to stay despite BMA’s ‘reservation

SUNDAY, JULY 02, 2017

A tripartite committee is now trying to solve the decades-long dispute over an old community around the ancient Mahakan Fort in Bangkok.

Four Mahakan Fort homes levelled

MONDAY, MARCH 20, 2017

The Bangkok Metropolitan Administration (BMA) on Monday demolished four more homes in the Mahakan Fort community.

Four more homes demolished at Mahakan Fort

MONDAY, MARCH 06, 2017

BANGKOK GOVERNOR Aswin Kwanmuang led city officials and workers to carry out the demolition of four houses in the Mahakan Fort community yesterday morning. There was no resistance from the

Mahakan Fort community defiant ahead of more home demolitions

SATURDAY, MARCH 04, 2017

The military entered Bangkok’s Mahakan Fort community on Saturday morning to remove rubble from the previous demolition of homes.

Mahakan Fort demolition set to start

MONDAY, NOVEMBER 28, 2016

DEMOLITION of the ancient Mahakan Fort Community is set to start in February, despite repeated pleas from residents who have offered to contribute to a living museum in exchange for the right to occupy a corner of the area.

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