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Thailand's green transition: Embracing the electric vehicle wave
Life, Anucha Charoenpo, Published on 27/09/2023
» Pinpawee Pulsawad, a 38-year-old owner of a maid services company in Saraburi province, harbours no regrets about her decision to purchase an electric car for her daily commute.
Taking on an ocean of waste
Life, Suwitcha Chaiyong, Published on 29/07/2019
» Debris, plastic bags, plastic bottles, straws. These are things that should never end up in the stomach of a sea creature. Yet this is a depressingly common occurrence, as veterinarian Weerapong Laovechprasit has discovered in his work at the Department of Marine and Coastal Resources. The autopsies he has conducted have turned up rope, Styrofoam, coins and worse. The huge quantities of waste in the oceans is proving fatal to creatures both great and small: sea turtles, dolphins, even whales.
Where there's smoke
B Magazine, Andrew Biggs, Published on 06/03/2016
» I have a staff member whose name is Jerd. Jerd is one of my information channels into the Thai working class. He used to raise his family on the minimum wage of 300 baht a day as a rubber plantation worker. Being a benevolent employee I naturally raised that figure substantially when I hired him, and these days he is earning that amount plus an extra four or five percent; the joys of a foreign employer.
Champion of commuters
Life, Sirinya Wattanasukchai, Published on 08/04/2013
» With his solid, well-paid job at a private hospital, Dr Sukamon Wipaweeponkul has every reason to own a car. Going against social expectations, however, he chooses not to.