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A talisman called mindfulness
Life, Arusa Pisuthipan, Published on 06/01/2016
» Besides resolutions to exercise more, smoke less and get better organised, another most discussed New Year topic is about the inauspicious year or what's known amongst Thais as pee chong.
Read the fine print of Thai surrogacy laws
News, Alessandro Stasi, Published on 17/10/2015
» Legal constraints and high costs on access to technologies have led an increasing number of patients to cross international borders to have children. This phenomenon has rapidly increased in the past few years and Thailand has become one of the major international commercial surrogacy destinations providing assisted reproductive services to individuals from all over the world at affordable costs.
Time to accept Japan at its word
News, Yuriko Koike, Published on 12/08/2015
» In recent years, the number of tourists visiting Japan has been increasing rapidly, reaching a record 13.4 million last year, a 29% increase from 2013. Japan seems to be making great strides toward its goal of recapturing the position as an Asian cultural centre that it held a century ago, when the Indian Nobel laureate poet Rabindranath Tagore lived in Tokyo. Chinese revolutionary leaders Sun Yat-sen and Chiang Kai-shek, along with many other prominent Asians, moved there as well.
Going to jail for writing is a horror story
Business, Kong Rithdee, Published on 09/03/2013
» Interestingly, getting people killed can't be as bad as disturbing people. Fatal recklessness isn't as unforgivable as deliberate provocation. At one extreme, murder is sometimes more tolerable than writing. To know how to toe the line, to know what to write and what not to write, has become a political as well as literary dilemma - and here we're talking about Chinese Nobel literature laureate Mo Yan's semi-endorsement of censorship and jailed editor Somyot Prueksakasemsuk's sentence for breaking the lese majeste law. And we thought clemency was the way of our world.