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Plastic recycling sees elderly pressed into action
News, Anchalee Kongrut, Published on 15/03/2020
» The term "rubbish" brings to mind objects of no value, unwanted items set to be discarded.
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Breaking the nation's bad plastic habits
News, Anchalee Kongrut, Published on 10/08/2018
» As of this Sunday, visitors to any of the 154 national parks across the country may get frustrated with the Department of National Parks, Wildlife and Plant Conservation's (DNP) new rule, which prohibits them from bringing single-use plastics and styrofoam food boxes into the compounds. It is an effort to cut non-recyclable waste.
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Run for your life -- every step counts
News, Anchalee Kongrut, Published on 23/11/2017
» My topic this week is running. No, I am not going to write about rocker Toon Bodyslam and his "Forrest Gump" long-distance running campaign. But please don't run away from this column just yet.
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Great expectations
Asia focus, Anchalee Kongrut, Published on 02/10/2017
» Joanne Kua, the young chief executive officer of KSK Group Berhad, is typical of the next generation of family business leaders. After pursuing a successful career beyond her native Malaysia, she has returned home determined to leave her mark, yet is aware of the need to prove herself.
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World on the move
Asia focus, Anchalee Kongrut, Published on 26/06/2017
» It is not an overstatement to say that the world is no longer a safe and peaceful place. News of terrorist attacks has become a sad fact of daily life, most recently in London and Paris again this month.
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Greening the palm oil supply chain
Asia focus, Anchalee Kongrut, Published on 08/05/2017
» 2016 will be remembered as the year of clear blue skies and clean air in the southern peninsula of Southeast Asia. For the first time in nearly two decades, choking haze from fires set to clear land for oil palm plantations was reduced significantly, in keeping with a promise made by Indonesian President Joko Widodo.
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Books prove resilient to technology
News, Anchalee Kongrut, Published on 27/03/2017
» Over a decade ago, some pundits made the prediction that books would eventually disappear. Now it seems that books are not on the extinction list, ready for the "guillotine" of the disruptive technology of the digital media and the internet of things.
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On the same page
Muse, Anchalee Kongrut, Published on 21/01/2017
» When Nalin Vanasin, a 43-year-old entrepreneur and mother of two, volunteered to work for Neilson Hays Library, she remembered seeing many eyebrows raised. A few of her friends even asked whether people still go to the library. Such a condescending attitude is somehow understandable. In our digital world, physical books are going out of date. Libraries, known as the fortresses of intellectuals for over two millennia, have become relics of the past.
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Paying respect and beating the trash
Life, Anchalee Kongrut, Published on 21/10/2016
» The Sanam Luang area has become the epicentre of emotion. Hundreds of thousands of grief-stricken Thais have converged there to pay their respects to the late His Majesty the King at the nearby Sala Sahathai Samakhom Pavilion inside the Grand Palace. During the day it is a surging sea of people, and late into the night black-clad mourners still linger on the grass lawn. Meanwhile, volunteers come to offer food, water and other services such as free transportation and paramedic services to visitors who come from every province around the country.
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War on weed
Life, Anchalee Kongrut, Published on 22/08/2016
» After declaring war against corruption and mafia, Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-o-cha has launched a new battle against the floating water weed phak tob java. The thick, green mats of the aquatic plant have choked Thailand's canals and rivers for more than a century, and since the rainy season started, the army and local administration have been ordered to get rid off the expansive profusion of hyacinth from the Central Plains waterways within 10 days.
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