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Help arrives as Nan floods stir panic
News, Published on 02/08/2025
» Diane Francheska Ruiz knew something was wrong. Warnings blared in Thai through the streets in Nan's Muang district throughout the day on July 23, but she didn't understand them.
Learning at druggie Dad's knee; pod puzzle; picky jogger thief
News, Mae Moo, Published on 26/01/2025
» They start early, these days
Helpless fish need heroes, too
Sunday Spotlight, Published on 02/04/2023
» Construction workers have been at work demolishing an abandoned tuberculosis hospital in Queens, New York, over the past several months, dismantling the long-empty wards and carting off the bricks. But first, they had to figure out what to do with a school of goldfish that for unknown reasons had come to call the flooded basement home. Three hundred of them.
Where the culture wars play out
Sunday Spotlight, Published on 06/11/2022
» A shrinking town set among cow pastures in Brittany seems an unlikely setting for France's soul-searching over immigration and identity.
Nan River overflows to parts of Nakhon Sawan
Published on 03/10/2022
» NAKHON SAWAN: The Nan River has overflowed into parts of Muang and Tha Tako districts in this northern province and high water levels have forced evacuation in urban areas.
Google's new California offices bank on in-person work
AFP, Published on 29/06/2022
» MOUNTAIN VIEW: Roofs coated with canopy-like solar panels and indoor spaces awash in sunlight: Google has bet big on in-person work with its sprawling new Silicon Valley offices.
A stroll through nostalgia and hope
Life, Amitha Amranand, Published on 21/04/2022
» After the first Covid lockdown in Thailand in 2020, the first performance that brought Bangkok theatregoers back to the physical space was Fullfat Theatre's Save For Later. At that time, the number of cases in Thailand was at a negligible level, and the idea of physical distancing and other pandemic measures were still a novelty. These inconveniences and constraints inspired and pushed theatre artists to experiment and create. Digital technology had a large presence in live performances back then, even in on-site ones.
When it twigged Thailand was different
News, Roger Crutchley, Published on 17/04/2022
» For the third year running we have experienced muted Songkran celebrations, and I for one won't complain if it remains that way for a while. Of course there have been a few naughty tourists who have broken the water-throwing protocols, but maybe the heat got to them.
Rediscovered splendour
Life, Pattarawadee Saengmanee, Published on 25/11/2021
» On a sunny day, I spent about 50 minutes riding the Airport Rail Link and taking advantage of the extension of the MRT Purple Line to travel from Bangkok's eastern suburb to the old town of Nonthaburi in the northwest.
Housing estates battered by whirlwinds
Sutthiwit Chayutworakan, Published on 05/10/2021
» SAMUT PRAKAN: Many houses in several housing estates were damaged by whirlwinds which swept through Phra Pradaeng district of this coastal province South of Bangkok on Monday evening.