Central World Shopping Centre closed today at about 2pm as a peaceful but disruptive rally by Red Shirt protesters shut down the nearby Ratchaprasong Intersection. Many bus services will have been cancelled or redirected.
Walking freely from Central World to Siam Paragon, it appeared that neighbouring shopping centres remained unaffected. BTS services were running as usual and there were no signs of an increased military or police presence.
Adecco is one of the world's largest employment services groups and produces a very useful annual salary guide that can be downloaded for free from Bangkok Library.


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The National Library (Thai: หอสมุดแห่งชาติ) is a public reference library in Bangkok, Thailand. It has a large collection, some of which dates back more than one hundred years, making it one of the oldest in Thailand. The library has an interesting and sometimes eclectic mix of contemporary and traditional features, with modern computer terminals sitting alongside card index systems.

The Neilson Hays Library (Thai: ห้องสมุดเนียลสันเฮส์) is located on Surawong Road, opposite the TOT office building. Apart from the neighboring British Club, there aren’t many nearby attractions, but it is easy to reach by taxi and is just 20 minutes walk from BTS Surasak station.
The library has a good selection of over 20,000 fiction and non-fiction titles available to its 600 members. The library operates a lending and reference service, the latter being available to non-members for a small and very reasonable fee.
