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Appetite for destruction
B Magazine, Published on 18/03/2012
» With more than 26 million copies of Suzanne Collins' young adult novel The Hunger Games in print in the US alone, the challenge of bringing it to the screen was immense. And nobody felt this pressure more than the film's star, Jennifer Lawrence, who plays protagonist Katniss Everdeen, the everyday teen thrown into a situation that is anything but everyday.
Scent of the unusual
B Magazine, Ezra Kyrill Erker, Published on 18/03/2012
» Jutamas Theantae worked as a food and beverage director for many years, and while it is a post she still holds, it is her re-entry into the kitchen as head chef that has improved her quality of life, she says. Jutamas, or Chef Som, has a degree in lithography from Visva-Bharati University in Santiniketan, India, the town Nobel literature laureate Rabindranath Tagore made famous.
Don't count out cookery of past in today's kitchens
B Magazine, Suthon Sukphisit, Published on 18/03/2012
» Every piece of cooking equipment used in homes or restaurants was invented to answer a special need. But over the years later versions that use newer technologies to make them cheaper, lighter or easier to clean and maintain have replaced the originals.
Make the moist of it
B Magazine, Normita Thongtham, Published on 18/03/2012
» The exact number of trees killed by the floods that devastated nearly one third of Thailand from August last year to mid-January may never be known. But if we take into consideration the fact that no tree is able to remain alive in stagnant water for long, it is safe to estimate that hundreds of thousands if not millions of trees were wiped out. After years of hard labour tending their fruit trees, orchard growers in provinces ravaged by the floods will have to start all over again.
Friends in need
B Magazine, Published on 18/03/2012
» Lulu and her four female puppies were rescued from the flood. The puppies are three months old and just completed their last vaccinations. They are small, terrier-mixed puppies.
Snap Happy
B Magazine, Richard Mcleish, Published on 18/03/2012
» The most anticipated camera release for years is the new Nikon D800 DSLR. It comes more than three years after its predecessor, the D700, a time during which Canon and Nikon have slogged it out for the lead in the pro DSLR stakes.
Princess graces red cross bazaar
B Magazine, Published on 18/03/2012
» It was a great day for shopping at the recent 45th Diplomatic Red Cross Bazaar 2012, co-hosted by wives of diplomats serving in Thailand and the Thai Red Cross Society at the Royal Paragon Hall, on the fifth floor of Siam Paragon.
Govt 'holds vulnerable underwater to keep big business afloat'
Spectrum, Supara Janchitfah, Published on 18/03/2012
» Those whose homes and farms were ravaged by last year's floods are fuming over government compensation plans that they say unfairly favour big business at their expense. About 2.23 billion baht will go to build a 77km floodwall around Rojana Industrial Park and 728 million baht and 700 million baht, respectively, has been earmarked to build floodwalls around Bang Pa-in and Nava Nakorn industrial estates. Many of society's most vulnerable who lost nearly everything in the floods _ including labourers, small farmers, slum dwellers and home-based workers _ are entitled to a mere 5,000 baht in compensation.
Dawei feeling pains of development and displacement
Spectrum, Published on 18/03/2012
» Thi Cho had been having sleepless nights since a small fishing community not far from her home was relocated a week earlier to make way for the multi-billion-baht Dawei development project.
Phuket looks beyond wealthy westerners
Spectrum, Published on 18/03/2012
» Phuket in recent years has become known as the playground of the West's rich and famous, attracting pop stars, celebrities, supermodels and run-of-the-mill millionaires. Some of these visitors spend time checking out property in the area, which spawned a healthy market for villas costing 30 million baht or more.