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Real-life forensics hold no glamour
Life, Yvonne Bohwongprasert, Published on 05/09/2013
» Forensic science has enabled police investigators to nail perpetrators, who otherwise would have gone scot-free. The recent brutal murder of Kankanit Suntratta is a case in point. Her corpse was left on the side of Kanchanapisek Road in Ayutthaya's Bang Pa-in district.
Crazy police are back
News, Published on 17/08/2013
» A year after the police ceased lining the sides of the road to harass motorists, they are back with a vengeance.
Escape artist Korea offers key lessons
News, Published on 26/04/2013
» Five years after the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression, developing nations confront a nasty pair of threats _ an excruciatingly slow global recovery, and the tsunami of easy money that rich-world central bankers have unleashed as they try to revive their own economies.
Listen to the words, not personalities
News, Published on 17/04/2013
» How do people form political beliefs? When will they change their minds? When will actual facts matter? A recent study, conducted by political scientist Brendan Nyhan of Dartmouth College and two co-authors, offers some clues.
Life from the back of a baht bus
Life, Peerawat Jariyasombat, Published on 20/03/2013
» More than a few seasoned travellers I know suggest that when you want to get a real feel for your destination, you should definitely visit a fresh market. There you can learn more about local lifestyles, how lives begin in the morning, partake of local delicacies and, perhaps most interestingly, observe town hygiene.
Stain of child labour
News, Kultida Samabuddhi, Published on 26/10/2012
» The outcry from the seafood industry and the Labour Ministry following the release of a PBS documentary on the use of child migrant labour in the industry is giving me a case of deja vu.
Animals caught in the middle
News, Published on 26/02/2012
» I am writing about the article in Friday's Bangkok Post on the raid on the Wildlife Friends Foundation Thailand (WFFT) in Phetchaburi's Tha Yang district. This is such a tragic situation and I feel great pity toward the animals. They know nothing about the conflict between the WFFT and the National Parks, Wildlife and Plant Conservation Department, but they are the ones who suffer. Both sides should negotiate.