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Comfort for the soul
Life, Duangphat Sitthipat, Published on 05/02/2016
» Dear readers, if you were born in 1950, 1962, 1974, 1986 or 1998 (the Year of the Tiger), read carefully. If you're looking forward to a rosy year ahead, you might be in for a major disappointment. Because 2016 is out to get you. If you scrape your car against a tree, get bitten by a dog, get pooped on the head by a pigeon, or end up on a delayed flight, remember that it might not be a pure coincidence. This year, for you, is filled with predestined mishaps.
Soft spot for superstition
Life, Duangphat Sitthipat, Published on 27/01/2016
» On Monday, Prime Minister General Prayut Chan-o-cha weighed in on the current national obsession.
Discovering freedom
Life, Duangphat Sitthipat, Published on 08/12/2015
» 'I am most grateful for two things," said Park Yeon-mi at the recent One Young World event in Bangkok. "That I was born in North Korea and that I escaped from North Korea. These events have made me who I am today."
Stories from dad
Life, Duangphat Sitthipat, Published on 04/12/2015
» Handbooks on parenting are mostly penned by mothers based on their first-hand experiences of giving birth, nursing and raising their children. But there is also a sizeable number of fathers who write parenting books too. To mark Father's Day tomorrow, Life speaks with three fathers who have chosen to convey their fatherly know-how through the written word.
Yielding dining excellence
Life, Duangphat Sitthipat, Published on 22/07/2015
» Eatigo, an online restaurant reservation platform, recently won the Global Brain Award and was second place in the Best Startups in the Region category from Tech in Asia Singapore 2015. The service, which requires no coupon printing and no credit card, works with more than 300 restaurants in Bangkok, Pattaya and Singapore, and has racked up more than 250,000 app downloads since being founded in 2013.
Come fly with us
Life, Duangphat Sitthipat, Published on 10/04/2015
» Shoshi Bromley-Dulfano was taking a stroll one breezy evening at Sanam Luang when she came across a string of purple kites. To her, they looked like jellyfish suspended in the sky.
A ride through motoring
Muse, Duangphat Sitthipat, Published on 13/12/2014
» What is your definition of a car? A moving machine? A convenient vehicle? Something you have never learned how to operate? Well, for many people, like those who go to motor shows every year to look at cars rather than pretty female presenters, they are definitely a big deal. A car is not just something that takes you from one place to another. It is not just something that takes you out on the road. For car lovers, cars are not a just a convenience, but fundamental to their lives.
Those in the nose
Muse, Duangphat Sitthipat, Published on 15/11/2014
» 'Smell is a potent wizard that transports us across thousands of miles and the years you have lived," said Helen Keller, the American author who was deaf and blind. Yes, scent is that magically evocative. If you are in a different corner of the world away from your mother and you get a sniff of her powdery scent from the street you are walking on, the exact same scent that your mum wore every day when you were a kid, suddenly you feel like you're home again.