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You don't know what you've got till it's gone
News, Roger Crutchley, Published on 16/09/2012
» Today is a somewhat sad day in that TrueVisions is closing down its DMX music channels due to lack of interest. You may well ask ''What music channels?'' as many friends who subscribe to the cable company tell me they didn't even know they had access to this music. And that is probably the problem... they've never really been promoted. I discovered them accidentally some years ago by pushing the wrong button on the remote, only to be blasted off the sofa by Led Zeppelin's Stairway To Heaven.
Do not pass go
Guru, Sumati Sivasiamphai, Published on 31/08/2012
» Great news, people! You can now cross "taxi driver" off the list of people who constantly reject your advances because starting from tomorrow (Sep 1), traffic police are going to arrest and fine cabbies who refuse service to passengers.
The real enemy of our forests
News, Sanitsuda Ekachai, Published on 30/08/2012
» Kanya Pankiti's rubber smallholding in Trang's Ratsada district in the Khao Bantad mountain region is not an ordinary one.
Revealing the national in dress
Life, Usnisa Sukhsvasti, Published on 02/07/2012
» Since being release from house arrest, Aung San Suu Kyi has been on the road big time, making up for all the years she was confined to a few hundred square metres. The world is her oyster. She's accepted her Nobel Prize, her Oxford degree, and been presented with the key to Paris.
Musical brawl
Life, Onsiri Pravattiyagul, Published on 27/06/2012
» Like all ruling political parties, Pheu Thai has the upper hand in launching initiative after initiative. It doesn't matter how idiotic it might seem to us. In the same vein, Pheu Thai often comes up with streams of ideas which they claim to be culled for the greater good and the voting public. But reality often proves otherwise.
The drench resistance
Life, Boaz Zippor, Published on 18/04/2012
» As a general rule I try to avoid being shot at. It is one of those basic rules in life which are always right, always correct. Now, I haven't just woken up one day and decided that this is a good rule to follow, no, it is from experience that this rule has come to life.
Beauty in diversity
Life, Published on 06/03/2012
» Thammasat University has always been known for its stance in supporting diversity and liberation which are the essential elements in democracy. Even though the university was heavily criticised a few weeks ago after preventing the Nitirat group to conduct political activity on the campus, the ban was lifted a week later. It proves that the blood for democracy runs deep in this institution.
Just whose land is Thailand?
News, Thitinan Pongsudhirak, Published on 03/02/2012
» The Nitirat campaign to amend Article 112 of the Criminal Code, commonly known as the lese majeste law, has generated a political tempest.
The fuzzy logic of flood cash
Life, Karnjana Karnjanatawe, Published on 01/02/2012
» There are many things in life I wish I did not have to face, such as falling sick, having accidents and dealing with government agencies.
The 'Fan Club' phenomenon
Life, Usnisa Sukhsvasti, Published on 30/01/2012
» I recently came into contact with a social phenomenon known as the "Fan Club".