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Bookworms in the capital rejoice
News, Supoj Wancharoen, Published on 12/03/2016
» Bangkok bookworms can expect a new reading centre in town as City Hall has decided to turn a building in the old town into a modern library — Bangkok City Library.
Best and unfairest battle for control
Spectrum, Jeerawat Na Thalang, Published on 24/01/2016
» The fight for the top job at the Football Association of Thailand next month is a clash of the titans between some of the most powerful personalities in Thai football.
The jury's still out on young judges
Spectrum, Nanchanok Wongsamuth, Published on 17/01/2016
» Five years ago Thidaporn Kornchoodej, then a 24-year-old lawyer’s assistant, was asked to sit in court to hear the verdict in a case she’d been working on. Her client was an American businessman fighting for custody of his four-year-old son, and Ms Thidaporn ended up sitting alone in the room with the judge as she delivered her ruling.
A crumbling gingerbread house
Spectrum, Jeerawat Na Thalang, Published on 17/01/2016
» A teak “gingerbread house” sitting on the banks of the Chao Phraya in an old quarter of Thon Buri often catches the eye of passers-by because of its aged look and exquisite fretwork.
When school isn’t safe
Spectrum, Chaiyot Yongcharoenchai, Published on 10/01/2016
» Bung* is in Mathayom 3 and is counting down the days until he can leave and finally join a school where male students are in the minority. “Three more months in hell,” Bung says hopefully.
Finding 'fatherhood' in unlikely places
News, Achara Ashayagachat, Published on 12/12/2015
» Being a father transcends bloodlines, biological ties and even the health conditions of the offspring, as renowned artist Sannarong Singhaseni has discovered. When Sannarong first dated his future wife at Silpakorn University in the 1970s, he often spent time with her younger sister, Samanjit Saengjak, a little girl with Down Syndrome.
Walking a fine line to model behaviour
Spectrum, Published on 06/12/2015
» South Korean JiWon, 19, is hopeful her career will mirror that of her favourite supermodel, Candice Swanepoel. Growing up in England and Singapore, JiWon made the decision to become a model after seeing South African-born Candice on TV. She felt “an adrenaline rush”. “That was the moment I knew what I wanted to be when I grew up,” JiWon said.
Gays under IS rule fear a cruel death
News, Bassem Mroue, Published on 03/12/2015
» Before a crowd of men on a street in the Syrian city of Palmyra, the masked Islamic State group judge read out the sentence against the two men convicted of homosexuality: they would be thrown to their deaths from the roof of the nearby Wael Hotel.
The mail will always float through
News, Published on 21/11/2015
» Do you remember the last time you sent a handwritten letter? It is accepted that letters on paper — whether for practical or even romantic reasons — are a dying form of communication.
School in the slow lane
Spectrum, Nanchanok Wongsamuth, Published on 25/10/2015
» Unlike his kindergarten peers who learn how to write the alphabet and memorise their times tables, a typical school day for three-year-old Titus Deesaen consists of observing rice fields, moulding candles and folding blankets.