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    Activist: 'Prayut as democracy hero' book a lie

    News, Anchalee Kongrut, Published on 19/04/2018

    » Firebrand activist Srisuwan Janya has vowed to sue the Fine Arts Department if it fails to recalls a book called the History of Thailand, which depicts coup maker and Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha as a patron of democracy.

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    Sweet success

    Asia focus, Anchalee Kongrut, Published on 27/03/2017

    » Does life really resemble a box of chocolates, as Forrest Gump observed, in which you never know what you're going to get? In terms of surprise and unpredictability, life could be more like the chocolate industry.

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    Beyond the numbers

    Asia focus, Anchalee Kongrut, Published on 06/03/2017

    » Anyone who meets Frank Lutz, the chief financial officer (CFO) of Covestro AG, the Germany-based polymer producer, will find it hard not to notice his wristwatch. Anyone expecting to see an extravagant chronometer or bespoke timepiece favoured by corporate executives and jet-setters will have a major letdown.

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    The fear of becoming a banana state

    News, Anchalee Kongrut, Published on 15/08/2016

    » 'The company changed the pattern of the rains, accelerated the cycle of harvests and moved the river from where it had always been." This vivid line is from the book <i>One Hundred Years of Solitude</i>, a magnum opus written by Gabriel Garcia Marquez, a Nobel Prize-winning writer.

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    A cuppa sustainability

    Life, Anchalee Kongrut, Published on 25/05/2016

    » For the urban cool, coffee has somehow become a form of luxurious indulgence -- not just a tonic to wake you up in the morning, or a kick to keep your eyes wide open in the yawning afternoon. But for Theerasit Amornsaensuk, managing director of Green Net SE, coffee drinking has a higher function still -- that of protecting forested mountains, while coffee-growing can provide a means for local villagers to coexist with their environment.

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    Real life can't really mimic the movies

    News, Anchalee Kongrut, Published on 23/05/2016

    » In the final scene of the Oscar-winning road movie, Thelma & Louise, the two desperate housewives and fugitives look at one another and hold hands. "Let us keep going." "What do you mean?" "Go!" "You sure?" Then, they hit the gas of the 1966 Ford Thunderbird convertible classic and fly off the cliff.

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    Got soy milk?

    Life, Anchalee Kongrut, Published on 23/09/2014

    » Two years ago, Kantat Aopchai, left his job as a teacher to sell nam tao hoo, or soy milk, from a food cart in front of Wat Rai Khing in Nakhon Prathom province. The 27-year-old inherited the recipe of delicious and fresh soy milk from his mum.

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    The voice of the pitch

    Life, Anchalee Kongrut, Published on 16/06/2014

    » Football fans, especially enthusiasts of the English Premier League, must have seen and heard Kittikorn U-dompol. The 47-year-old TV commentator has provided the voice of many live matches since 1990. He also once had a column in the popular Siam Keela newspaper.

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    A card-carrying communist in my room

    Life, Anchalee Kongrut, Published on 09/11/2012

    » Beijing looks too neat. Gardens are manicured, cleaners have scrubbed stickers from the footpaths. The capital looks eerily like the safest place on Earth. Policemen stand guarding subway stations, randomly checking identity cards.

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