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State your vote
Guru, Worada Elstow, Published on 20/05/2022
» It's been nine years since Bangkokians were able to use their voices to elect a governor of their choice. The time has come, for us to vote in the hope of a better Bangkok. However, if you're still on the fence or in the dark about the candidates and their key policies, allow Guru to shine some light on the six leading candidates, according to the Nida poll.
Don't mess with the ex, stabbing mystery, bookish thief
News, Mae Moo, Published on 15/05/2022
» Ex-wife rallies behind suspect
Being trans in a pandemic
Life, Yvonne Bohwongprasert, Published on 18/01/2021
» Growing up a trans woman in rural northeastern Thailand for the first 16 years of her life, Minty* was often ridiculed and physically abused by elders in her family and neighbourhood children for her effeminate demeanour, which forced her to run away to an unknown future in Bangkok.
Out of work and out of options
Life, Yvonne Bohwongprasert, Published on 22/09/2020
» When the garment factory where Tin Tin* worked for over a decade shut down in Mae Sot due to the financial impact of Covid-19 earlier this year, the 37-year-old Myanmar migrant resorted to picking wild water morning glory along a canal near her shanty home to cook and eat.
From here to eternity
Life, Suwitcha Chaiyong, Published on 30/07/2020
» Whenever artist Pachara Piyasongsoot goes to visit his girlfriend at her housing estate, he always sees the cleaning staff working tirelessly. After befriending one cleaning lady, he learned that some six families from Kalasin province live in a hidden 92m² space behind a tennis practice wall. Some of them have been there for as long as 20 years.
Into the holistic
Life, Melalin Mahavongtrakul, Published on 06/03/2017
» Each day at the break of dawn, 40-year-old Sa-nga Karnin emerges from the bamboo hut he shares with his wife and daughter wearing his uniform of blue denim, with a colourful pha khao ma wrapped around his neck. Then, it's work time. His priority as a mahout is Thongma, his trusted elephant who is in her 40s.
The elephants in the room
Life, Brandon Harder, Published on 19/12/2016
» When seven-month-old elephant Mosha stepped on a landmine near the Myanmar border, the explosion ravaged her leg. Immobilised, she would've been marked for death, were it not for the staff at Friends of the Asian Elephant (FAE) hospital in Lampang, southeast of Chiang Mai.
Loach film on shame of poverty in Britain moves Cannes to tears
AFP, Published on 13/05/2016
» CANNES - Director Ken Loach denounced the British government's "conscious cruelty" towards the poor Friday after his film about the poverty and humiliation inflicted upon them by welfare cuts had critics at the Cannes film festival in tears.
Billboard
Guru, Sumati Sivasiamphai, Published on 05/09/2014
» What images have started appearing on nearly 100 billboards around Bangkok?
Age is catching up
Life, Published on 09/04/2012
» On September 10 last year, exactly on World Suicide Prevention Day, Khom Khong-ngoen, 67, doused his body and wooden hut with petrol before setting himself alight. The ensuing blaze consumed him and his hut.