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A glimmer of hope in dark times
News, Published on 23/02/2020
» The recent wave of shootings and constant fear over the coronavirus recalls what Claudius said in Hamlet: "When sorrows come, they come not single spies, but in battalions". And these "battalions" of sorrow have been plunging Thais into deep depression.
Parsing the fat
Life, Arusa Pisuthipan, Published on 25/09/2018
» The idea of shedding kilos in this weight-obsessed society has gone beyond paying pricey gym membership fees and hiring a personal trainer to build the perfect body. A number of women who feel they're overweight shift from one diet to the next in hope of possessing a figure that is as close as possible to the standards of the fashion and beauty industries.
Money can't buy Miss Tip's love
Spectrum, Father Joe Maier, Published on 07/05/2017
» We never knew mum when she was young and not yet ravaged by cheap booze and hard hot years under the Southeast Asian sun doing unskilled sweatshop labour, living wherever there was work on the decks and holds of rusty out-of-date cargo ships in the Bay of Bangkok.
After the quake
Spectrum, Published on 18/12/2016
» There's an old saying that Thailand is a paradise on the blue planet. A place of natural beauty and wonder, one could easily believe that Mother Nature is kind to the people here.
BMA 'bungling tree care and maintenance' in Bangkok
News, Supoj Wancharoen, Published on 14/05/2016
» 'Trees and stubs disfigured by incorrect pruning are everywhere. They are not pleasant to the eye. I am not sure if the authorities have the knowledge and skills required to trim trees," said Nirawan Poomngern.
Dangerous beauty industry operates beneath the surface
Published on 24/11/2013
» With a gloved and practised hand, she takes the one-use needle from its packaging, dips the tip into a jar of alcohol for sterilisation and applies it to the syringe. A clear liquid, a silicone filler almost as transparent as water, is drawn into the syringe ready to be injected into the patient's forehead.