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Languages, lifestyle and leading ideas
Life, Sasiwimon Boonruang, Published on 29/10/2014
» Amy Kunrojpanya, head of communications and public affairs for Google Thailand and Indochina, is a woman of many talents. The Australian speaks eight languages and has volunteered her time and skills with several community development organisations in Southeast Asia, including Thailand. She has transformed challenges into opportunities and found the motivation to strive towards her goals.
Service above all
Life, Sasiwimon Boonruang, Published on 24/09/2014
» Growing up in the Wilailak family, owners of Samart Corporation, which is best recognised for pioneering TV antennas, Sukanya Vanichjakvong, knew early in life that she would eventually have a job that would require her to be service minded.
Smashing the glass ceiling
Life, Sasiwimon Boonruang, Published on 04/06/2014
» Thai women continue to make great strides in their careers, but there are still much harder steps to take until they reach the same senior positions enjoyed by their male counterparts.
Smells like home
Sasiwimon Boonruang, Published on 15/04/2014
» Fragrances can have different effects on people, attracting some and keeping others away.
The dog whisperer
Life, Sasiwimon Boonruang, Published on 30/01/2014
» Soonthara Satjawatcharaphong, owner of Jojo House Dog Master, has always had a passion for drawing and dogs. Soonthara, or Joey, studied architecture at Assumption University and earned a master's degree in real estate at Thammasat University. Having been in the field of design for three years, her work covered a wide range of projects that included homes, offices and coffee houses, to name a few.
Before Windows and touch screens, computing was a DOS
Sasiwimon Boonruang, Published on 06/01/2014
» If you ask computer users what MS-DOS is, they may not know that you are talking about personal computers. Those aged 30 and above might have used or at least be familiar with CU Writer — the green letter on the black background word-processing program running on the MS-DOS operating system.
The true spirit of volunteering
Life, Sasiwimon Boonruang, Published on 12/11/2013
» When the children got off the bus, their smiles were so bright that your heart swelled. The clapping from a group of people who were waiting for the children made their smiles even broader, as if they could feel the warm welcome. If no one had told you, you would never guess that all these cute children are from families devastated by the 2011 tsunami that left 18,000 dead and parts of the Tohoku region in northeastern Japan in ruins.
Land of the rising son
Life, Sasiwimon Boonruang, Published on 31/10/2013
» Pakistani-born Jamil Ahmad has mastered the Japanese language. The corporate competitiveness manager at HSBC Global Asset Management Japan says experience is one of the best tools to mastering anything a person sets their heart on.
Animate now
Life, Sasiwimon Boonruang, Published on 30/10/2013
» More than 1,300 students and 450 projects entered the 7th Thailand Animation Contest 2013 (TAC), with St Francis Xavier Convent School securing first place in the secondary school category for the third time in a row. The school also took the second and third prizes.
Breaking down barriers
Life, Sasiwimon Boonruang, Published on 15/10/2013
» Autistic and physically handicapped children have often been excluded from regular schools because they are considered to require special care. But that barrier has been overturned by Kunlajin Kindergarten School, where such children are integrated with regular students.