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Avoiding tourism's stresses and strains
News, Paritta Wangkiat, Published on 20/06/2022
» Foreign visitors have started returning to tourist destinations since the start of the year after the government lifted some Covid-19 measures. The influx of tourists has been observed from Phuket to Chiang Mai, some of which report visitor overcrowding.
Soft power must have global appeal
News, Paritta Wangkiat, Published on 25/04/2022
» The presence of the 19-year-old rapper Milli at the Coachella Music Festival in the United States has reinvigorated Thailand's soft power ambitions -- an area the Thai government has not fully explored nor exploited.
Reviving Sabah
Asia focus, Paritta Wangkiat, Published on 28/02/2022
» The economy of Sabah, a Malaysian state in the northern part of Borneo Island, has fallen into a slumber during the Covid-19 pandemic, with the lowest growth among the country's states.
Purpose-driven business
Asia focus, Paritta Wangkiat, Published on 09/11/2020
» Nearly 10 months since coronavirus lockdowns first started, many companies have been pushed close to the abyss by the sharp curtailment of business activity and greatly reduced revenues.
Clock ticking for Phuket to reinvent itself
News, Paritta Wangkiat, Published on 14/09/2020
» Phuket, Thailand's top tourist destination, has experienced the worst hardship in the country as a result of travel restrictions with international airports shut down for almost six months.
The last sanctuary
Spectrum, Paritta Wangkiat, Published on 08/07/2018
» On a lush hill overlooking Da Nang Bay, central Vietnam, red-shanked doucs freely wander in one of their few remaining sanctuaries on Earth. At the Son Tra Nature Reserve, a mountainous peninsula known to American soldiers during the Vietnam War as "Monkey Mountain", sights like a douc couple hanging from a treetop can still be seen.
Vietnam locals reap little from tourist boom
News, Paritta Wangkiat, Published on 28/06/2018
» Scenes of visitors crowding around a dozen local fishermen on a beach to watch them pull their fishing nets out of the water may sound strange but it has become a daily ritual in the tourist-magnet city of Danang, Vietnam, as I found out during a recent trip there.
How women pay the costs of development
Spectrum, Paritta Wangkiat, Published on 11/03/2018
» Heading down a dirt road, Khampan Suprom zigzags her motorcycle through the grove, passing a small reservoir and plantation on the way. She comes to park under some trees. Dressed in her gardening apron and rain boots, she dismounts and drifts towards her vegetable garden.
Dead sea: Tourism adding heat to bleaching emergency
Spectrum, Paritta Wangkiat, Published on 19/06/2016
» A Chinese woman was perplexed when she saw that her luggage was causing concern as it passed through an X-ray scanner at Don Mueang airport.
A community stares at its demise
News, Paritta Wangkiat, Published on 20/06/2015
» At a popular breakfast joint under a big tamarind tree, locals drop by for a bite to eat and a chat on the future of their community that is at the mercy of the controversial Pak Bara project.