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Come play in my tree house
Life, Sirinya Wattanasukchai, Published on 19/12/2012
» Late in the morning as the tide begins to fall, two women race to get a job done. One holds a net and the other a trash bag, and their task is to collect undegradable waste that has been washed under the stilts of the property that stands on the edge of the Chao Phraya river.
Putting his heart into it
Life, Sirinya Wattanasukchai, Published on 13/12/2012
» It's always nerve-racking for a food writer to shift to the other side of the counter _ by opening up a restaurant. And it's doubly so if that restaurateur is dishing up food that he or she didn't grow up with.
Date with destiny
Life, Sirinya Wattanasukchai, Published on 05/12/2012
» On a lazy Sunday afternoon, Vithaya Kulsomboon had to call off his plan to share iced chao kuay _ black jelly _ with his family when he found the expiry date marked on the package came a few days before he bought it. He was considering getting a refund on the pack or simply throwing it away.
Grain of Truth
Life, Sirinya Wattanasukchai, Published on 05/11/2012
» It may not make much sense to grow rice to sell especially to rice farmers. But a group of farmers in Suphan Buri province is doing just that.
Crafty designs
Life, Sirinya Wattanasukchai, Published on 05/11/2012
» Talking about design, people tend to think of short-lived fashionable object from the modern world. But for Outofstock _ a rising designer group in Singapore _ design is rooted in the old crafts.
Opportunity on the Menu for Young
Life, Sirinya Wattanasukchai, Published on 18/10/2012
» Once the cooking class was over, Pithat Kilawong carefully picked the best presentation and started to comment.
Finding the root of the Problem
Life, Sirinya Wattanasukchai, Published on 05/10/2012
» Imagine Bangkok physically disconnected from the rest of the country. How long could residents of the capital survive with the remaining food supply? Probably just a matter of weeks of relying on frozen and instant food.
Cycle of evolution
Life, Sirinya Wattanasukchai, Published on 04/10/2012
» The sight of several thousand cyclists gathering on Bangkok streets might be unthinkable. But what seemed beyond imagination became reality when over 14,000 cyclists turned up in force in a campaign to mark the recent Bangkok Car-Free Day.
There goes the neighbourhood
Life, Sirinya Wattanasukchai, Published on 21/08/2012
» 'Take as many photos of this area as you want. What you can see today will soon be all gone," said Sunee Narongrit, a resident of Amphawa, as she gazed at a row of decades-old wooden houses facing onto the canal.
Rooting for nature
Life, Sirinya Wattanasukchai, Published on 16/08/2012
» Nammon Welployngam is a young leader and activist of the Wat Kae Nang Loeng community in Bangkok. But upset by the temple's landscape improvement plan that may rid the monastic compound of a towering tamarind tree that is a symbol of her community, she didn't resort to protest in the typical sense of the word. Instead, she gave the tree a goodbye hug and moved on to Facebook.