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Opinion – Morning Glory Fighting for Survival: The Shrine, the Students, and the Workers Bangkok Forgot
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In Bangkok, “progress” often arrives as a luxury condominium. Old neighbourhoods disappear. Small shops vanish. Communities are told to move aside for a more modern city.
Key facts
- At Chulalongkorn University’s Block 33 development project in Sam Yan, we are now seeing who is being forced to pay it.
- The project is reportedly worth more than 2.7 billion baht (approximately US$90 million)
- On 18 June 2026, students from several Thai universities joined construction workers from the Block 33 site to petition the Labour Committee of the Thai Parliament
- For years, Block 33 was known mainly as a conflict over the Chao Mae Thapthim Shrine at Saphan Lueang, a historic Chinese shrine surrounded by a construction site
Summary
But progress always has a price. At Chulalongkorn University’s Block 33 development project in Sam Yan, we are now seeing who is being forced to pay it.
For years, Block 33 was known mainly as a conflict over the Chao Mae Thapthim Shrine at Saphan Lueang, a historic Chinese shrine surrounded by a construction site. A small community of caretakers, students, and conservationists tried to protect it from being displaced by a university-led real estate project.