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Sex worker pleads rights; bare essentials; monk loses cool
News, Mae Moo, Published on 23/06/2024
» Marriage agreement under fire
Ancient skeleton reveals amputation surgery 31,000 years ago
AFP, Published on 08/09/2022
» TOKYO: A skeleton discovered in a remote corner of Borneo rewrites the history of ancient medicine and proves amputation surgery was successfully carried out about 31,000 years ago, scientists said Wednesday.
A breathtaking tale
Life, Tatat Bunnag, Published on 09/11/2020
» Two years have passed since the breathtaking cave rescue in the north of Thailand. The incident was big news nationally and also transfixed millions of people worldwide who watched an impossible real-world rescue mission unfold for the Wild Boars junior soccer team who were trapped deep inside Tham Luang cave in Chiang Rai Province.
What 2019 brought to Thailand's strongest industry
Life, Karnjana Karnjanatawe, Published on 26/12/2019
» Life reviews the highlights of the tourism sector during the past 12 months.
Humanity over bureaucracy
Life, Kong Rithdee, Published on 22/11/2019
» Do we need a feature film about the Tham Luang Cave rescue? We already know the characters, the set-up, the conflict, the ending: The 12 youngsters and their coach were saved, transported out unconscious from the flooded grottos in Chiang Rai by a team of elite divers, against the odds of natural or man-made calamities. Miracles, as the world acknowledges, have already been performed. Tears have been shed and a tragedy -- the death of a Thai Navy Seal -- has been mourned.
Behind the scenes
Guru, Published on 04/10/2019
» Tom Waller is a Thai-Irish filmmaker, who is behind many big film productions such as the narrative-feature on the Tham Luang cave rescue, Ong-Bak and foreign reality shows like Asia's Next Top Model and Survivor. His company, De Warrenne Pictures, of which he is also managing director, is one of the country's leading full-service motion picture film productions. Guru spoke to Tom about his views on Thailand's film industry and the idea behind The Cave, which is being released on Nov 28.
Cave exhibition shows paragon of Thainess
Life, Pongpet Mekloy, Published on 22/08/2018
» On June 23, when the 12 boys of Chiang Rai's Wild Boars Football Academy and their young coach parked their bicycles and embarked on another excursion into Tham Luang, a cave within a rideable distance from their usual training ground, they didn't know that there would be heavy rain while they were inside. They didn't know that they would be trapped by flood waters. They had no idea either about the unprecedented phenomenon that would happen next.
The plight of the stateless
Life, Published on 14/08/2018
» Thanom's ancestors lived in what was Siamese territory, near Bang Saphan district in Prachuap Khiri Khan, over a century ago. Back then Burma, to the west, was a British colony and people who lived along the border crossed back and forth without much difficulty. When state boundaries were redrawn during the reign of King Rama V, his family was stuck on the other side. As a young man Thanom was a cattle herder, and he travelled around Karen villages to buy cattle and buffaloes and crossed over to sell them on the Thai side. When he started this job, a cow was just 20 baht and a buffalo was 50 baht.
May's botched boob job, Poo comes clean, Poj's revenge
News, Mae Moo, Published on 22/07/2018
» 'Don't trust the doctors'
Becoming geological royalty
Life, Karnjana Karnjanatawe, Published on 22/10/2015
» Narongrit Thongprue has a big plan. The chief of Tambon Administrative Organisation in Thung Wa, a small and low-profile sub-district in Satun province, has worked on it for more than a year: he wants to push his beloved home to be listed as a Unesco Global Geopark.