A cleaner and safer Bangkok

A woman cooks vegetable patties in her sidewalk food stall in downtown Bangkok on July 5, 2017. / AFP PHOTO / Roberto SCHMIDT

Lured by cash rewards, informants are tipping off city authorities about litterbugs and lawbreakers. 

BANGKOK administrators’ offer of cash rewards for anyone reporting violators of the cleanliness-and-order law has been credited for easing problems. Apparently a lot of citizens have informed on street hawkers, motorcyclists using the footpaths and people dumping garbage in canals and the like.