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Running with the dogs
Life, Sasiwimon Boonruang, Published on 03/05/2017
» While running with your dogs can be healthy and fun, it can also be rewarding as you can now make charitable contributions to Siriraj Hospital through the activity.
Get your game on
Life, Sasiwimon Boonruang, Published on 31/01/2017
» Board games have become quite a trend in Thailand in the past few years. In response to their popularity, TK Board Game Club by Thailand Knowledge Park (TK Park) is holding a special activity on Feb 11 at TK Park where board game enthusiasts, as well as beginners will be able to learn more about this recreational activity.
Easing the way for the elderly
Life, Sasiwimon Boonruang, Published on 09/11/2016
» Wristbands that alert caregivers to health emergencies. Speaking robots to assist the elderly. The Internet of Things for healthcare efficiency. As Thailand edges closer to becoming the first emerging country of Southeast Asia to become an ageing society, technology creators here have worked to develop innovations that will ease the burden of the population and ensure a better life for the elderly.
Become a maker!
Life, Sasiwimon Boonruang, Published on 26/08/2015
» Maker Faire is an event that celebrates art, craft, engineering and science and was started in San Francisco and New York. It has since expanded all over the world to countries including Tokyo, Rome, Detroit, Oslo and Shenzhen and is now making its way to Thailand.
They've got game
Life, Sasiwimon Boonruang, Published on 05/08/2015
» Game Casters are online celebrities who inhabit unique pockets of YouTube — "pockets" may not sound large enough when the most popular of them has 38 million followers. To "cast game", as the activity is known, is for these people to play through a video game (say, Minecraft) accompanied by humorous, irreverent and sometimes swear-ridden commentary, and their whole subjective experiences are recorded and broadcast on YouTube channels for their fans to watch.
The true spirit of volunteering
Life, Sasiwimon Boonruang, Published on 12/11/2013
» When the children got off the bus, their smiles were so bright that your heart swelled. The clapping from a group of people who were waiting for the children made their smiles even broader, as if they could feel the warm welcome. If no one had told you, you would never guess that all these cute children are from families devastated by the 2011 tsunami that left 18,000 dead and parts of the Tohoku region in northeastern Japan in ruins.
Land of the rising son
Life, Sasiwimon Boonruang, Published on 31/10/2013
» Pakistani-born Jamil Ahmad has mastered the Japanese language. The corporate competitiveness manager at HSBC Global Asset Management Japan says experience is one of the best tools to mastering anything a person sets their heart on.
Breaking down barriers
Life, Sasiwimon Boonruang, Published on 15/10/2013
» Autistic and physically handicapped children have often been excluded from regular schools because they are considered to require special care. But that barrier has been overturned by Kunlajin Kindergarten School, where such children are integrated with regular students.
Learning from experience
Life, Sasiwimon Boonruang, Published on 05/03/2012
» With compensation money from his company, Tiwa York had initially planned to backpack to 16 countries over a 10-month period. He first travelled to Thailand, then proceeded to China, but soon returned to Thailand and travelled no further as the Thai-American from Arizona had, by then, fallen in love with a Thai girl who he married and was blessed with a baby girl, and decided to make the land his mother was born his home.