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The sound of life
Life, Karnjana Karnjanatawe, Published on 22/01/2018
» You may experience it once in your lifetime when you travel either by bus, train or aeroplane. While you're seated in your cramped seat and trying to rest, a baby passenger starts to cry. Minutes pass like hours and the baby doesn't stop crying.
Smarter Thailand? Only on paper
Life, Karnjana Karnjanatawe, Published on 24/04/2017
» After PM Prayut Chan-o-cha announced the policy of a "smarter Thailand", aka Thailand 4.0, I also wished that he considered to reform the Immigration Bureau with technology.
The car-crash stats that shame Thailand
Life, Karnjana Karnjanatawe, Published on 09/01/2017
» The horrific collision involving a passenger van and a pickup truck on Highway 344 in Chon Buri's Ban Bung district last Monday, which killed 25 people, emphasises the country's disrepute concerning its dangerous roads.
Message in a plastic bottle
Life, Karnjana Karnjanatawe, Published on 19/12/2014
» Hotels that provide single-serve plastic bottles for drinking water and small plastic containers for toiletries always get minus points when it comes to environmental and social concern ratings in Life's hotel review column "Been There/Done That". The bottles are not environmentally friendly.
Think before you travel
Life, Karnjana Karnjanatawe, Published on 06/05/2014
» The tourism industry has not yet returned to happy mode. To stimulate a market rocked by political uncertainty, several travel fairs have been organised to offer special discounts or packages for tours, hotels, spa and golf courses. The next travel fair will kick off on Thursday at Queen Sirikit National Convention Center.
Dirty politics sullies our rice
Life, Karnjana Karnjanatawe, Published on 02/07/2013
» I never thought that the government's rice-pledging scheme policy would directly impact me, my family or my friends - middle class people.
Frustration starts with a queue
Life, Karnjana Karnjanatawe, Published on 24/05/2013
» Every time I walk to the passport control area at Suvarnabhumi airport, I see members of staff standing next to the automatic gate system that scans passports. They always reach out their hands and ask for passports when they see passengers come close to the gate. What they normally do is open the first page of your passport and insert the book into the slot scanner. When the doors swing open, they take the passport out of the machine and hand it back to you. Then they will tell you to step in, stand at the mark, put an index finger on the finger scanner and look at the camera. Then they will speak up again to alert you that all the process is done, another gate will open and you are clear to leave the station.