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A failing grade
Life, Arusa Pisuthipan, Published on 20/08/2019
» First it was rotten eggs in phalo soup served to schoolchildren in Prachin Buri province. Then it was criticism over a school lunch case in Nakhon Pathom where people took to social media, complaining both the quality and quantity of a lunch meal served to primary pupils.
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Parsing the fat
Life, Arusa Pisuthipan, Published on 25/09/2018
» The idea of shedding kilos in this weight-obsessed society has gone beyond paying pricey gym membership fees and hiring a personal trainer to build the perfect body. A number of women who feel they're overweight shift from one diet to the next in hope of possessing a figure that is as close as possible to the standards of the fashion and beauty industries.
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Right man for the job
Life, Arusa Pisuthipan, Published on 01/08/2016
» From a farang-looking showbiz sweetheart who starred in a soap opera, television commercials and music videos 17 years back, today Christopher Benjakul is selling bread.
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The time to combat plastic is now
Life, Arusa Pisuthipan, Published on 02/07/2018
» It comes as no surprise that Thailand is among five Asian countries -- together with China, Indonesia, Vietnam and the Philippines -- that are responsible for more than half of the 8 million tonnes of plastic waste dumped into the world's oceans every year, according to a 2015 Ocean Conservancy Report. The people of Thailand use over 70 billion plastic bags a year.
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Tech at its worst
Life, Arusa Pisuthipan, Published on 08/01/2018
» Create a tool, and someone will weaponise it. This is the core message of British producer Charlie Brooker's current Netflix hit Black Mirror. Basically, the speculative anthology series exposes the dark side of technology and how it can bring out the worst in humans.
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Meat and mosquitos raised health concerns in 2016
Life, Arusa Pisuthipan, Published on 13/12/2016
» Thailand’s medical issues this year mostly touch personal health and 2017 is predicted to be even more individualised.
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Perils of white powder
Life, Arusa Pisuthipan, Published on 05/04/2016
» Jacqueline Fox died from ovarian cancer last October at the age of 62. The death of the American is notable in that it has raised a public health concern with regard to what possibly caused her passing -- baby powder.
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End this feverish media frenzy
Life, Arusa Pisuthipan, Published on 26/11/2015
» It looks like the entertainment news correspondents, who are spending day after day at Ramathibodi Hospital covering the fate of Channel 3 actor Thrisadee "Por" Sahawong, whose life is now hanging by a thread due to severe dengue haemorrhagic fever, have finally learned how to respect the rights and privacy of the 37-year-old heartthrob.
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Don't believe the hashtag hype
Life, Arusa Pisuthipan, Published on 21/08/2015
» Kim Kardashian has over 42 million followers on Instagram -- the equivalent of the combined population of Singapore, Hong Kong and Malaysia. So whenever she hits her keypad and opines on her social network account, it definitely has an impact on her fans in one way or another. And that is probably the reason why the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) felt extra worried after they saw the 34-year-old American TV personality, who is now five months pregnant with her second baby, posted on her personal Instagram account earlier this month about how she coped with, as she put it, #morningsickness.
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Debts are a ticket to doom
Life, Arusa Pisuthipan, Published on 19/12/2012
» My mum and I once discussed doomsday. I told her if there really was going to be such a day, I would buy up everything I fancied using all the credit lines available to me to their maximum allowance.
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