New World Department Store

Staff from Bangkok Metropolitan Administration (BMA) office were catching fish on Tuesday, January 13 at the ground floor of the roofless New World department store that was closed down in 1997. Thousands of fish such as catfish, fancy carp as well as black and red tilapia were released into the ground floor of the building, flooded with rainwater, as local vendors tried to control mosquitoes in the area, local media reported. BMA recently decided to remove the fish and release the water.

(Photographs by Chaiwat Subprasom/REUTERS)