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The year nature bounced back
Life, Pattarawadee Saengmanee, Published on 28/12/2020
» One of the most difficult years in living memory, 2020 gave us the Covid-19 crisis, but it also provided us with many lessons.
New speedboat service
Life, Karnjana Karnjanatawe, Published on 17/09/2020
» A speedboat service between Koh Samui in Surat Thani and Si Chon district in Nakhon Si Thammarat has been launched.
555 Headlines
Guru, Pornchai Sereemongkonpol, Published on 29/11/2019
» Looking at your newsfeed can give you a sense of doom and gloom these days. Venice faces its worst flood in 50 years. Koala becomes "functionally extinct" because of the (at the time of writing) ongoing bushfires in Australia. Another Thai factory was shut down and workers were laid off en masse. If you need a break from bad news like I do, you're in luck. Here are three funny headlines -- unintentionally or not -- to lift up your mood.
National parks closure
Life, Karnjana Karnjanatawe, Published on 31/05/2018
» The Department of National Parks, Wildlife and Plant Conservation has announced the temporary closure of attractions in a number of national parks during the rainy season.
Into the strange forest
Life, Kong Rithdee, Published on 09/09/2016
» The dirt road is dry and red, scorched by the Isan sun. The headmaster is wary, sardonic, and enervated by the heat. The students, or at least some of them, are bored and ironic ("What do you want to be when you grow up?" a teacher asks. "A bank robber," he deadpans.) Next to this poor state school is a forest, sun-dappled, mysterious and probably haunted. Girls are warned not to go in there because they may never come back out.
Tourism in bloom
Business, Chadamas Chinmaneevong, Published on 30/11/2015
» The Tourism Authority of Thailand (TAT) is employing its Discover Thainess campaign to attract foreign tourists to "Hidden Gems" -- 12 provinces most people miss on their trips here.
Rural doctor shortage getting worse
Jon Fernquest, Published on 23/05/2011
» Newly graduated doctors willingly pay fine to avoid three-year rural internship in state hospitals.