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Bike park opens
Life, Karnjana Karnjanatawe, Published on 14/05/2015
» A new mountain bike park opened last Saturday in Bangkok's Bang Kapi district.
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.
Off to nether Netherlands
Life, Karnjana Karnjanatawe, Published on 04/12/2014
» The smell of cacao hit my nose as I got off a bus and slowly walked toward a small village in Zaanse Schans, a village that is a popular tourist attraction in the Netherlands.
Over the borderline
Life, Karnjana Karnjanatawe, Published on 25/09/2014
» A temporary tent was set up at one corner of the Three Pagodas Pass, the border checkpoint in Sangkhla Buri district of Kanchanaburi, while a signboard displayed a tour service with pictures of attractions for Payathonsu town, in Kayin State of Myanmar.
Sufficient,safe and sound
Life, Karnjana Karnjanatawe, Published on 18/09/2014
» Many awards and certificates of achievement are displayed in the house of Somboon Srisubat. Seventeen years ago, the skinny farmer suffered great distress and almost committed suicide due to huge debts. Today, he's found a way to get back on his feet and now runs the successful Suan Lung Nin, or Uncle Nin's Orchard, in Chumphon, about 450km south of Bangkok.
A land of plenty
Life, Karnjana Karnjanatawe, Published on 28/08/2014
» Things have changed since my first visit to Farm Chokchai, one of the largest cattle ranches in Southeast Asia, a decade ago.
Chumphon’s understated charms
Life, Karnjana Karnjanatawe, Published on 17/07/2014
» The coffee cherries were ripe, a bright, appetising red. Even from a distance, the scarlet berries stood out clearly on the long, straight branches of Coffea canephora, the botanical name for the species commonly known as Robusta. This type of coffee is widely grown in the South and, according to statistics compiled by the Office of Agricultural Economics, more than half the land devoted to cultivating this cash crop in our southern provinces is located in Chumphon, where plantations also boast the highest yield per rai in the entire region.
Moving on
Life, Karnjana Karnjanatawe, Published on 26/12/2013
» Before bidding farewell to the Year of the Snake and welcoming the Year of the Horse, according to the Chinese zodiac, Life has compiled the top five of what's hot and what's not in our tourism industry. There are some things that are truly memorable, and some things that need to be improved on.
A taste of the great white North
B Magazine, Karnjana Karnjanatawe, Published on 22/12/2013
» Born and growing up in and around Vancouver in Canada, Lee Wood is today the executive chef at the Anantara Vacation Club in Phuket. He has worked and lived on the resort island for 10 years. Now aged 36, Wood has had a passion for cooking since he was in high school.
The government that cried wolf
Life, Karnjana Karnjanatawe, Published on 07/08/2013
» Watching people putting food in their mouths isn't fun. But we see this kind of scene every time there is a question about food safety. And so here we go again.