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Govt threatens Section 44 to 'speed up' drug patents
News, Pattramon Sukprasert, Published on 02/03/2017
» Health civic groups called Wednesday for the government to drop the idea of using Section 44 under the interim charter to expedite the approval of over 10,000 applications for drug patents, fearing it could lengthen the drug monopoly period.
Happy 100th birthday Hua Lamphong
Life, Pattramon Sukprasert, Published on 20/06/2016
» Standing as a faded landmark of the capital, Hua Lamphong will turn 100 this Saturday. Over the century since it opened in 1916, Bangkok's central station has become more than its original function as a hub for commuters and trains. Hua Lamphong has become an architectural treasure, the arrivals lounge for workers who've come to try their luck in the city, a living museum of Thai life, a grand old building of hope, dream, loss and now, of change.
The helping hands that lift after a storm
Life, Pattramon Sukprasert, Published on 18/11/2015
» 'I was hopeless. My house and my coconut farms were all gone and I couldn't think of what else to do," says Alfredo Canaleja, 68. The farmer was one of millions of people affected by the wrath of Typhoon Haiyan, or Yolanda to the locals in the Philippines.