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You can read the Bangkok Post
Terry Fredrickson, Published on 20/05/2012
» You can read the Bangkok Post is a book designed for people who want to improve their English to a very high level – good enough to be able to read the Bangkok Post newspaper easily without frequent use of the dictionary. It can be used in a class, or by an individuals working by themselves without a teacher.
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Grow your own when prices go bananas
B Magazine, Normita Thongtham, Published on 20/05/2012
» During my last visit to the Philippines in November last year, I bought bananas for 100 pesos (73 baht) a hand or bunch. I thought those were the most expensive bananas I had ever bought. I told my sister, who simply loves the fruit, that they would have cost me only about 20-25 baht in Bangkok. I never dreamed that only six months later, I would see bananas of the kluay hom variety selling for 75 baht a hand at Klong Toey market, and 80 baht at Pak Klong market.
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Friends in need
B Magazine, Published on 20/05/2012
» Blind black kitty Buggly was living in a market near the Scad office, taken care of by a couple of local people. After Chinese New Year, Buggly's owners had to leave the area and were unable to take Buggly with them. As she was already being taken care of at Scad and we couldn't put her back on the streets without her carers to look after her, she joined the adoption and sponsorship programme. A very well mannered cat, Buggly is looking for caring owners to love her.
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Fit to print
B Magazine, Richard Mcleish, Published on 20/05/2012
» As it is prone to do, HP has released many models in the printer market in an attempt to lure a wide range of consumers. This can be a daunting prospect for potential buyers, who can quickly become disillusioned by the overwhelming number of options on shelves.
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High fashion? right this way
B Magazine, Published on 20/05/2012
» Central Chidlom launched two luxury zones, Luxe Galerie and Luxe Men, in the department store's Lobby Lounge featuring top luxury brands. Under the theme "Street de Luxe", the two zones aim to be trend-setters and display the latest fashions.
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Map Ta Phut locals demand say in industrial safeguards
Spectrum, Tunya Sukpanich, Published on 20/05/2012
» Two weeks after two horrific chemical accidents at Map Ta Phut industrial estate left 12 people dead and hundreds injured, many who reside near the estate are still living in fear. They are demanding to know why there were no effective safeguards in place to protect them despite many chemical accidents occurring in the area over the past few years.
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I just called to say I'm locked up
Spectrum, Frank Lombard, Published on 20/05/2012
» Let's call him Bait. He's a Thai man in his early 30s who recently served five years at Khlong Prem Prison in Bangkok on a narcotics charge. Bait left prison before the floods of November 2011. He says that in his prison zone everyone had access to a mobile phone. About one-third of prisoners owned one, he says, while the rest shared. Bait said both convicts and prison staff knew exactly what was going on, and that officials controlled the supply of mobile phones in the prison and ignored their use.
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Youth wasted on beggars' road to Thailand
Spectrum, Published on 20/05/2012
» Dice roll and cards are dealt every day in the seven casinos along the Poipet-Thai border, but just five kilometres away in the ramshackle village of Kbal Spean, gamblers of a different sort are playing for much higher stakes: betting their and their children's lives as they struggle to eke out a meagre living as beggars in Thailand.
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As Myanmar opens, donor exit at border puts dreams in peril
Spectrum, Published on 20/05/2012
» When she heard the foreign donations that paid for her studies were falling drastically, 16-year-old Myanmar migrant Seng Jam Longzaw began to worry that her dream of becoming a nurse was vanishing.
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Knowledge essential to rental riches
Spectrum, Published on 20/05/2012
» Rental yields remained largely unchanged in the first quarter of this year in the downtown Bangkok condominium market, ranging from 3% to 9%, despite prices for new properties rising and no significant growth in the number of expatriate tenants. The findings appear in CBRE's quarterly survey based on all of the company's letting transactions for the last quarter.
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