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Vive la difference
Life, Published on 21/11/2012
» After living in Bangkok for a few months I finally ran out of toiletries from home - Canada. A quick trip to find moisturiser and make-up led me to an awakening about cultural differences and similarities when it comes to beauty and what cost women around the world are willing to pay.
Wading through putrid water to get to the truth
Life, Kanokporn Chanasongkram, Published on 22/11/2012
» These days there seems to be lighter than usual traffic on many Bangkok roads on Monday and Tuesday nights because people rush home to watch Channel 3's sensational soap opera, Raeng Ngao.
E-bikes may be the thing to end our scooter chaos
Life, Anchalee Kongrut, Published on 23/11/2012
» Oh yes, I was constantly asked, challenged and reprimanded. "Are you cycling in Beijing?" And: "Why don't you ride a bicycle in Beijing?" And then, a line which came out like an insult: "It is good that you don't. You will get hit by a car anyway." Ouch.
Can you keep it down to a scream?
Life, Usnisa Sukhsvasti, Published on 26/11/2012
» I normally just glance through the business section of the paper each day, finding profit margins and corporate takeovers a little beyond my scope of interest.
One Pai is enough, please
Life, Peerawat Jariyasombat, Published on 14/11/2012
» One morning sipping my brew at a coffee shop in Chiang Mai's remote Mae Chaem district, which has the potential to be developed into a tourist destination, patrons at the table next to me asked their friend, a local politician, whether there are plans to turn Mae Chaem into a new Pai, the popular tourist hang-out in neighbouring Chiang Rai province. I almost spilled my coffee. I wished they were just kidding.
Keeping pace with the tech
Life, James Hein, Published on 14/11/2012
» With the continued rush to bring out new applications and new technology the rate of change is leaving more and more people behind. The youngest are growing up using their parents' tablets and smartphones to play games instead of going outside to play. Those a couple of years older are already on child-orientated chat rooms, developing more advanced online skills. The under-20s are fluent in thumb-typing, chat abbreviations, emoticons, creating avatars and pretending to be someone they aren't. Those aged below 30 are more likely to be accessing the internet with a mobile device and may not even have a fixed phone line at home.
Last in translation
Life, Yanapon Musiket, Published on 15/11/2012
» Everywhere we go, the sound of the global South Korean hit Gangnam Style seems to creepily follow us.
Here comes the Green Dragon
Life, Anchalee Kongrut, Published on 16/11/2012
» Allow me to make it clear at the start: the Green Dragon in this column is not a nickname for any endangered wildlife species. It is neither the sobriquet for a newly opened budget airline, nor the Bar B Q Plaza restaurant chain in Thailand, that uses a green dragon, named Bar B Gon, as its mascot.
A pattern of patent complaints
Life, James Hein, Published on 07/11/2012
» In what should come as no surprise to anyone, moments after Windows 8 was released someone claimed they put boring coloured squares on a screen first. The claimant is SurfCast and they say they did the equivalent of Live Tiles, what Microsoft is calling a coloured square you can click on or touch activate, first. Their patent from 2004 is for a "system and method for simultaneous display of multiple information sources". If for example you look up a screen shot of Xerox's Windows equivalent that appeared before Windows 1.0 you will see what looks a lot like a Windows 8 screen that was designed a long time before the year 2000.
Laws of nature
Life, Pichaya Svasti, Published on 08/11/2012
» Next year should be the beginning of less difficult times for all creatures in Thailand since the country's first law to prevent cruelty against animals and improve their welfare is expected to come out. After eight years of effort by activists and politicians, the Animal Welfare Bill passed the first parliamentary reading last month and has to be approved on the second and third readings before taking effect. The whole process usually takes no more than 180 days.