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Thailand: Bang on track



May 2008

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You might want to avoid Bangkok until at least 2012, as builders will be tearing the city apart to install 404km of mass transit. Work will begin on six lines this year and three more in 2009, vowed the finance minister, Surapong Suebwonglee, who oversees the €15.7bn programme... Article continues at monocle.com

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