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Teaching for Thailand
Life, Duangphat Sitthipat, Published on 30/06/2015
» Teach For Thailand (TFT) is a non-profit organisation which is a part of the Teach For All network. Working with local schools, the organisation hand-picks individuals of all academic disciplines to become "change agents" through teaching at needy schools in Bangkok. Now in its second year, the operation is thriving.
Celebrating a life-saving angel
Life, Duangphat Sitthipat, Published on 12/05/2015
» To mark International Nurses Day today and to continue our series on ordinary people often overlooked by society, Life experiences a night on the job with an emergency room nurse.
Mapping travel paths
Life, Duangphat Sitthipat, Published on 15/06/2015
» Finding the right van to your destination from Victory Monument — home to the biggest fleet of commuter vans in the country — used to be no easy task. There are more than 170 routes offered by the hundreds of vans sitting at seven different service points at the roundabout, but there is zero signage. Frequent commuters may have mastered their ways around the slipshod management, but first-timers often end up going round in circles and foreign tourists simply lost in translation.
Staying alive
Life, Duangphat Sitthipat, Published on 23/03/2015
» Last month, Juan Francisco Guillermo, a Chilean cyclist on a 250,000km, around-the-world journey, was killed after being hit by a pickup truck in Nakhon Ratchasima province. One week after the tragedy, members of the Thai Cyclists Network got together in front of Bangkok Art and Culture Centre for a commemorative ceremony. The event saw participants playing dead on the ground to raise public awareness of road safety and the risks faced by cyclists.