BANGKOK Central Forest Park Benjakitti - Construction Update - Thailand 4K 

Water monitors (Varanus salvator) are surely the members of this park, LOL.

We should get a place now!

Indeed it will add to the channel immensely

+100

Happy birthday Alex ;-)

@@globaltravelmate thank you 😃

According to the Tabacco Authority of Thailand (the successor entity to the Tabacco Monopoly of late), the tabacco plant used to be owned by a private company. In 1939, our rather socialist-leaning government at that time "Purchased" that plant from the said private company. So, yeah, it used to be a private land, and then turned state-owned, now they gave it up for public use.

I have been there. It has a long wall around it and you can not get in.

@@globaltravelmate THx.

Ya,, 8m usd)))

True 😉👍

Actually, Bangkok doesn't allow drones fly in the city. I saw the news that someone paid over 300,000 Bath for fines. (Pls search it from Google) Be careful. ^__^

Haha, thanks for smashing.

Tobacco Authority of Thailand (gov enterprise) returned the land to the Gov for building this Benjakiti park to meet the Her Majesty Queen Sirikit The Queen Mother royal initiative to increase green lung for the city and Thailand 🙏❤️🥰

Back in the old days -and by that I mean around the second world war-, the area that is Bangkok's CBD right now used to be, for the lack of a better word, a rural backwater. That is why the royal government of the old days decided to put many facilities for government own monopolies around that area; we got an old Tabacco Plant, Train Depot, Old National Broadcasting Company, old Tariff Office, etc. scattered around the city, some of which is right at the heart of the CBD itself. Now, with the rapid urbanization in the 80's these places are swallowed up by the city and most of them have moved to a new place, leaving the old facilities to rot and not being put to good use. It's just been a few years ago did I see many of those plots of lands given back to the state or rent for private business for development; we have this tabacco plant turned into a park, the tariff office preserved and will be converted into a hotel, train depot likely turned into a business complex, etc. As for the state making ciggs: yes, it does make ciggs. As I said, the tabacco industries has been around since the day smoking used to be a common sight -even considered classy-, our government at that time, in their infinite wisdom and being a bunch of socialists as they were, thought it was a good idea for the state to run the tabacco business, so they "purchased" the tabacco plant from a private company and begun production and extending its supply chain by yet again purchased more plants and plantations. With the current competition in the market and the change in smoking trend that see declined number of smokers, I'd say the Tabacco Monopoly isn't much profiting anymore, but we still have to put taxpayer money to subsidize it (lest it have to layoff its employee, which would be bad for them), even with it now being turned into state enterprise. I can only hope that conversion into state enterprise is merely the first step, or a pretext for conversion into a private company, so we don't have to waste taxpayer money on them anymore.

@@Mikoyan01 thank you for the interesting information ( shocking to think the government make such products by hey TIT as we tend to say here 555 )

@@duisunny thanks

@@mrmartin2079 as I said, the history of the Tobacco Monopoly can be traced back to when smoking was cool (I mean, the only country that actively campaigned against smoking at that time was Nazi Germany, so...) and when the anti-smoking trend started to roll around here in the '80s, the Tobacco Monopoly was just too big to be put down without consequences. Nobody have half the balls to even touch it until recently when it was converted into state enterprise (which I very much hope it will serve as a stepping stone for future privatization, so the state can be done with it)

Yes we have.

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Haha, to fast. I will get another update soon.

Just south of BTS Asoke. Not too far to walk, but when you get there it's more walking...

livingasean.com/garden/bajakitti-forest-park/

Tobacco Authority of Thailand (gov enterprise) returned the land to the Gov for building this Benjakiti park to meet the Her Majesty Queen Sirikit The Queen Mothe royal initiative to increase green lung for the city and Thailand 🙏❤️🥰