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'Crime buster' heads up border security
News, Wassayos Ngamkham, Published on 29/10/2018
» Dubbed by media as "the crime buster of Bangkok", Pol Maj Gen Sompong Chingduang has been put in charge of the Border Patrol Police (BPP).
Worthy of a name
B Magazine, Normita Thongtham, Published on 04/12/2016
» Piya Chalermglin, PhD, intrepid plant explorer and extraordinary researcher at the Thailand Institute of Scientific and Technological Research, recently retired. He spent 20 years of his career surveying the country's plant genetic resources, particularly Magnoliales, which includes the custard apple family Annonaceae and the magnolia family Magnoliaceae. In the process, he earned the distinction of having discovered 17 species new to science, joining the likes of famous botanist Carl Linnaeus and other plant explorers who immortalised their names by inspiring the names of some plants.