The Ministry of Health has given a nod to Thailand’s cleanest commodes with the 2011 Outstanding Toilet Awards.
Notable beautiful Bangkok bogs included those at Central World shopping center and Suan Luang Rama IX Park. There were 20 other facilities around the country – including schools, temples, railway stations, markets, hospitals, government offices and private companies – that were awarded after being assessed for health, accessibility and safety criteria, The Nation reported.
The health ministry created the award in 2005 and has since bestowed it upon 159 public toilets, finding that about 55 percent of facilities meet the criteria. In May, the Cabinet issued regulations requiring toilets at restaurants and gas stations be hygienic.
While we at Coconuts Bangkok would like to congratulate Central World and Suan Luang Rama IX Park for their first-rate commode cleanliness, we would like to go on record with our shock and dismay with the fact that Terminal 21’s toilets were not similarly honored. Terminal 21’s space age toilets have come to be recognized by the general public as by far the best in Thailand and their omission from the list of finalists calls into question the very integrity of the whole Outstanding Toilet Awards, in our humble opinion.
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