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From putting expectant mothers in touch with midwives to finding you a snake-catcher, Bangkok's 'quality of life' radio station RDCK provides a lifeline in a city where public services are haphazard at best.
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
Since Thailand's economy crashed in the 1997 Asian economic crisis, its capital has been dotted with the decaying shells of over 500 unfinished high-rise buildings.
Surin Pitsuwan, former foreign minister of Thailand, now ASEAN secretary-general.
