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Bangkok Governor Chadchart Sittipunt on Wednesday promised to hold talks with the city's Skytrain operator to revive monthly discounted tickets for adults and students.

The Bangkok Metropolitan Administration (BMA) wants the Metropolitan Electricity Authority (MEA) to pay for the damages on its property due to the fire at Sampheng market in Bangkok on Sunday.

The Bangkok Mass Transit System (BTSC) said on Tuesday that it needs one month to update its fare-calculation software and make other arrangements before it can start collecting fares on the Green Line extension.

Even though wearing a face mask outdoors is no longer mandatory, Bangkokians have been advised to consider the benefits of having a mask on in protecting them from Covid-19 and other respiratory diseases.

The Metropolitan Electricity Authority (MEA) has said it is urgently working on providing assistance to those affected by a blaze that was allegedly sparked by a power transformer in Bangkok’s Sampheng market on Sunday.

The Office of the Insurance Commission (OIC) is urging businesses to insure their properties against fire after learning that the Sampheng market shophouse where the Sunday fire broke out was not insured.

A former aide to Deputy PM Prawit Wongsuwan defended new Bangkok governor Chadchart Sittipunt on Monday, following a spate of serious fires in the month since he was elected.

The price of land in the Siam Square area of Bangkok is still the highest in Thailand at 3.5 million baht per square wah (4 square metres), influencing land prices in three areas, namely Phloen Chit, Chidlom and Nana, to rise to 3.3 million baht per square wah.

Hundreds of Bangkokians put aside their fears and flocked to the Tio Chew Association’s Wat Don Cemetery on Sunday to enjoy “Music in the Garden”.

Bangkokians caught driving, riding or parking their vehicle on footpaths will be fined up to 5,000 baht under a 1992 legislation on cleanliness and orderliness.

The owner of the shophouse that caught fire in Bangkok’s Sampheng market is threatening to sue the Metropolitan Electricity Authority (MEA) for failing to maintain the transformer that blew up on Sunday.

The prime minister has ordered related agencies to study the damages sustained as well as the structure of the shophouse that caught fire on Sunday morning in Bangkok’s Sampheng area. He is concerned about the building collapsing and causing more damage, the government spokesman said.