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Communities turn giant savers
News, Published on 09/11/2019
» The many yang naa trees lining a well-known cross-border road linking Chiang Mai and Lamphun provinces have stood the test of time for well over a century, helped by locals who are working tirelessly to prevent them falling victim to the axe.
Seeds of Sufficiency now flourishing
News, Chatrudee Theparat, Published on 13/10/2019
» Though it's been three years since the passing of the country's revered monarch, Pid Thong Lang Phra Foundation, a royally sponsored initiative applying the sufficiency economy philosophy, is still keen to uphold King Rama IX's legacy of caring for rural communities.
Singapore taps into water innovation
Published on 07/06/2019
» SINGAPORE: Every day after his morning run, Adam Reutens-Tan washes under a half-full camping shower hooked on the ceiling of his bathroom.
Wasting away to make energy
Business, Yuthana Praiwan, Published on 18/03/2019
» Many private companies in the Thai renewable energy field are pleased with the new version of the national power development plan (PDP) for 2018-37.
Gone with the water
Life, Apipar Norapoompipat, Published on 21/09/2018
» In the past two weeks, regulars to one of Chinatown's most iconic street food stalls, Khao Gaeng Jek Pui (Jek Pui Curry), may have noticed something a little different. In the usually impenetrable line of red stools, where hungry locals sit to eat their curry-topped-rice sans table, there is a gap. The perpetually closed green wooden doors of the Eah Seng building -- in front of which Jek Pui's stall has been operating for seven decades and which is a common representation of Chinatown in street photography -- is now open.
Royal projects echo in the park of 9 knolls
News, Supoj Wancharoen, Published on 11/11/2017
» It's been close to two years since the Bangkok Metropolitan Administration (BMA) began building a new public park on the Thon Buri side of the capital.
Children of the sun
News, Published on 12/08/2017
» Thammasat University, one of the nation's oldest academic institutes with a reputation for championing academic activism, is blazing a new trail by making its 2,400-rai Rangsit campus self-sufficient in terms of energy usage.
Espresso with a dash of sunlight
News, Published on 25/03/2017
» Ban Coffee has become a fixture of the landscape in Mae Hong Son, where it lies adjacent to the popular Bua Tong flower field and serves as a popular meeting point, an occupational training venue and a model of self-sufficiency through renewable energy.
All the new toys
Life, Sasiwimon Boonruang, Published on 08/02/2017
» One of the largest events of its kind in Thailand, Inventors' Day 2017, which wrapped last Monday, showed off brand-new inventions and their creators' competence.
Our top 10 stories in a year that will be hard to forget
Spectrum, Published on 25/12/2016
» Over the past year 'Spectrum' has reported a wide range of issues to give readers valuable insights. Our reporter ambushed the monk who helped Leicester City to their shock English Premier League title to get an exclusive. Another reporter blended in with Chinese yuppies in the new business district of Bangkok to find out why they decided to migrate to Thailand. Two reporters did a series of stories on the Tiger Temple by hanging out with the veterinarian, monks and national park officers to listen to all sides. We were determined to find the truth. Last month we also went up to Chiang Mai to talk to Hmong girls wrongly accused of stealing a British tourist's watch. Here are the top 10 stories in another exciting year of reporting.