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Getting hung up over telephone boxes
News, Roger Crutchley, Published on 27/08/2017
» While walking along Silom Road the other day, I spotted a young lady making a call from a phone box. Now you don't see that very often these days -- a Thai woman without a smartphone. She must have been in a state of distress. Perhaps she was calling the police station to inform them her smartphone had been stolen.
Loosen up! Time to change strict booze laws
Life, Peerawat Jariyasombat, Published on 03/10/2016
» One evening at a bar in Myanmar, a bartender hands me a glass of local beer he nicely pours out of the tap. "Myanmar has a number of local beers and drinks you can enjoy. It is actually a kind of exploration. You can try various beers until finding the one you like the most. How about Thailand, sir?".
Some New Year's gifts that will just keep on giving
News, Published on 29/12/2014
» Since we are all in the holiday spirit, I'd like to single out a few people and institutions to give them a much needed gift and wish them luck for the approaching new year.
Postbag: PM’s head in the sand
Oped, Published on 20/12/2014
» Re: “Gen Prayut dodges new torture questions”, (BP, Dec 19). Why doesn’t the PM just come out and admit that it happened under the administration of former PM Thaksin. It happened. There is no denying it. Following the Thai axiom, if you ignore the problem it never happened, or, if you ignore it, it will go away, is not the answer.
An education for Obec
Life, Vanniya Sriangura, Published on 19/09/2014
» Recently, Life ran a story on how Thai students were paying others to do their school assignments for them.
The morality of merit-making
Life, Patcharawalai Sanyanusin, Published on 05/09/2014
» Everyone has the right to believe in what they choose to believe in, and should have the freedom to express it. Regardless of how unreasonable those beliefs might sound, we should respect everyone's rights to have them.
Warning: spoilers ahead
Life, Parisa Pichitmarn, Published on 16/05/2014
» The world never ceases to find new ways to harass our emotional well-being every day. Because I am only human, the pain that comes along with tax papers and sold-out avocados is now also extended to stumbling across TV-series, movie and book spoilers. And those abhorrent things are practically diving towards us from every possible direction, what with the internet and smartphones inextricably entwined with our daily lives.
My invented history
Life, Parisa Pichitmarn, Published on 06/11/2013
» The political climate these past few days has given me enough inspiration (and audacity) to think that I might just make it as the next Isabel Allende. Peppered with some magical realism, but mostly stirred by my surroundings and TV broadcasts, I give you the synopsis of my future best-selling novel:
Drugs and children don't mix
Life, Arusa Pisuthipan, Published on 06/09/2013
» Children are our future. But if some children in some schools choose to take painkillers together with soft drinks because they are told by some older students that combining the two will create drug-like effects, our future might not be as good as we anticipate.
A song of ice and fire
Life, Michael Ruffles, Published on 02/08/2013
» This seems familiar. A young woman, a girl really at 16, is thrust into the centre of a national blood sport, her every move subjected to intense scrutiny and criticism. A father figure who means well speaks some tough truths knowing she will eventually be better for it. The government gets involved and manipulates her into fulfilling their agenda. And finally she's thrust into an arena with 23 of her peers where they fight to the death.