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Modern business ideas, ancient materials
Jon Fernquest, Published on 29/08/2011
» PhD Thitiporn Chanawangsa is breathing new life into an ancient handicrafts material, hemp fabric, by adding creativity, research and her own farming.
Organ donors save lives
Jon Fernquest, Published on 15/08/2011
» Kidney, liver and heart transplants mean life or death to many. The Red Cross aims to end the growing organ shortage.
Cost-push inflation and small vendors
Jon Fernquest, Published on 09/08/2011
» How a minimum wage hike would play out in the intensely competive world of small food vendors.
Labour justice
Jon Fernquest, Published on 22/07/2011
» Will better wages and benefits for labour really lead to lost export competitiveness, bankruptcy and a flood of cheap immigrant labour?
Vitamin D for health
Jon Fernquest, Published on 22/06/2011
» Vitamin D slows ageing of muscles, lowers risks for cancers, diabetes, high blood pressure and even weakened muscles in older people
War on drugs, without extrajudicial killing
Jon Fernquest, Published on 09/06/2011
» This time all parties are renouncing the mass-killing of Thaksin's war on drugs in their anti-drug policies.
Guns or doctors?
Jon Fernquest, Published on 06/06/2011
» Thailand suffers from a doctor shortage but not a shortage of soldiers. Military spending eats up money for health care.
Research on inhumane prison conditions
Jon Fernquest, Published on 01/06/2011
» "Thailand's prisons are the eighth-most crowded in the world"
Rural doctor shortage getting worse
Jon Fernquest, Published on 23/05/2011
» Newly graduated doctors willingly pay fine to avoid three-year rural internship in state hospitals.
Drop in Japan trade
Jon Fernquest, Published on 25/03/2011
» Thailand as "the major manufacturing base for Japanese companies" relies on parts from Japan that face delays after the earthquake.