Bangkok's Metropolitan Police Bureau has created a new program to help overweight traffic police shed some kilos. About 60 traffic police have volunteered for the 'Fit and Firm' program. Sessions taking place twice a week include yoga and aerobics. The program also encourages the participants to eat a healthier diet that emphasizes fruit and soup and discourages fried street food and bowls of white rice. "Senior policemen saw that our officers are too chubby... too fat, so they decided they should lose weight", said Lieutenant Colonel Sujit Suksamai, who is also taking part in the course. Slimming down also improves public confidence in the police, according to health expert Kawita Kruenjit. "When the general public see fat police they wonder 'how are they going to run after the bad guys?'"
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Hundreds of anti-government protesters - many wearing white masks - converged on Bangkok's shopping district on Sunday. The demonstration by the 'V for Thailand' movement was the fourth this month outside the CentralWorld complex in the heart of the city. Little is known about the leaders or political allegiances of V for Thailand, but the group has swiftly developed a major social media profile railing against Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra and her brother Thaksin Shinawatra.
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The Department of City Planning has built a "City Model" of Bangkok. The scale model of Bangkok, covering 143.5 square meters, is the largest of its kind in Southeast Asia and the third biggest in Asia, after models of Beijing and Shanghai. With a scale of 1:750, the model is comprised buildings, parks, temples, canals, roads, and all other places located in central Bangkok and parts of Thon Buri. A private company was paid 13.7 million baht to build the model. More than 1,000 people worked on it and the finished work contains more than 200,000 pieces. The model took 18 months to complete. The model is currently featured at the City Hall's Department of City Planning.
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