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    A sustainable retreat

    Life, Thana Boonlert, Published on 21/09/2023

    » In the southwest of Phnom Penh lies the region's largest surviving rainforest. After landing, I met other travel companions to spend three nights together at a riverside camp. We were split into two vans and headed for Sihanoukville. Downtown shophouses and heavy traffic gave way to lush scenery. No sooner had the hustle faded into the distance than rice paddies, palm trees and mountains came into sight. Here, Cambodia's nature remains undisturbed. In more or less two hours, we arrived at the camp depot.

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    Move Forward won't vote for Pheu Thai PM candidate

    Thana Boonlert, Published on 21/08/2023

    » The Move Forward Party (MFP) said it would vote against the prime ministerial candidate of the Pheu Thai Party because Pheu Thai was forming a government with military-linked parties.

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    MFP pushes nine more reform bills

    News, Thana Boonlert, Published on 10/08/2023

    » The Move Forward Party (MFP) has submitted nine more draft laws to parliament as the reformist party pushes for changes which it had promised its supporters in the May 14 general election.

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    The right to clean air

    Life, Thana Boonlert, Published on 05/06/2023

    » In 2009, Smog In The City envisioned a not-too-distant future for Chiang Mai. Set in 2019, Fah returns home to find her family and villagers suffering from air pollution. Following a critical level of toxic haze, the government orders a state of emergency and immediate evacuation. After her mother dies of smog-induced acute coronary syndrome, she rushes to take her family to an airport like other evacuees. While her father and brother deteriorate, a couple approaches her car for drinking water.

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    Struggling to survive

    Life, Thana Boonlert, Published on 23/05/2023

    » You are what you eat, but some do not have the privilege to choose. Nai, who is skinny and short for his age, lacks more than just a proper diet. He has been abandoned by his mother, and his father is serving a jail term. As a result, his uncle has kindly taken him into his own family. But like others, he is living from hand-to-mouth, so providing his nephew with a balanced diet from the five food groups is difficult. Due to a lack of variety in their diet, slum children, though not starving, are suffering from malnutrition.

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    Helping kids in need

    Life, Thana Boonlert, Published on 08/05/2023

    » Growing up in a business family, Janphen Phiromlapha set her sights on making money until she took a young girl, who is not related by blood, into her family.

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    Temperatures soar, headaches rise

    Life, Thana Boonlert, Published on 01/05/2023

    » Like other early birds, Dao Dul, 35, goes on duty at first light. For her, time is literally money. Her office is not a well-built weather-proof skyscraper. It is a makeshift cart that provides affordable dishes to hundreds of community residents from dawn to dusk.

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    The many tastes of rice

    Life, Thana Boonlert, Published on 10/04/2023

    » For several decades, cracked ground in Isan or the Northeast of the country captured the public's imagination. In the 1970s, readers submitted their poems to Satri Sarn, the country's first women's magazine, recounting tales of drought, crop failure and hardship. Some were forced to eat leaves and grasshoppers, not rice, while others who fled their villages in search of jobs in Bangkok were duped or exploited by agents.

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    Pita-Piyabutr row over, for now

    News, Thana Boonlert, Published on 24/02/2023

    » The Move Forward Party (MFP) on Thursday insisted the war of words between its leader, Pita Limjaroenrat, and Piyabutr Saengkanokkul, secretary-general of the Progressive Movement, was over.

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    MP casts doubts over Upakit's assets

    News, Thana Boonlert, Published on 21/02/2023

    » Move Forward Party MP Rangsiman Rome on Monday accused Senator Upakit Pachariyangkun of making a false asset declaration after the senator filed a 100-million-baht defamation lawsuit against him last week following the general debate.

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