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The road to healthy lunches
Life, Arusa Pisuthipan, Published on 20/10/2020
» Well-seasoned phalo soup with eggs, crispy fried chicken served with rice, and a khanom jeen dish with side vegetables are all delicious Thai-style treats that can be served to school students for lunch. However, in reality, what some Thai children receive is rotten eggs in phalo soup, small slices of fried chicken on top of a tiny amount of rice that barely fills three spoons, and khanom jeen or fermented rice noodles with sprinkles of fish sauce and nothing more.
The consequences of sugar
Life, Arusa Pisuthipan, Published on 25/08/2020
» About 50% of Thai schoolchildren suffer from dental health issues, with the worst facing five-year-olds where 70% of their milk teeth are found to be decayed, according to figures from the Sweet Enough Network under the Bureau of Dental Health, the Department of Health.
A failing grade
Life, Arusa Pisuthipan, Published on 20/08/2019
» First it was rotten eggs in phalo soup served to schoolchildren in Prachin Buri province. Then it was criticism over a school lunch case in Nakhon Pathom where people took to social media, complaining both the quality and quantity of a lunch meal served to primary pupils.
Philanthropy at its finest
Life, Arusa Pisuthipan, Published on 09/01/2018
» When Thailand was wrecked by months of heavy flooding in 2011, over 13 million people were affected. More than 2,300 households were completely destroyed, almost 100,000 homes partly damaged. The deluge killed around 650 people.
Leaping hurdles
Life, Arusa Pisuthipan, Published on 15/07/2013
» Cleaning the shop's displays and filling the shelves with products all day long, Supakorn Gesmankit lives his typical working days just like other part-timers at a clothes store. His shift starts at 7.30am and ends at 3pm. He works four days a week and is paid the same wages as other temps. But there is one huge difference, and that is his intellectual impairment.
Not for sale
Life, Arusa Pisuthipan, Published on 18/03/2013
» Living in the neighbourhood of Mae Lao in Chiang Rai province where a number of girls and boys have been trafficked from, Nat* has no idea she herself is also at a very high risk of becoming part of the human market.
Partners in philanthropic planning
Life, Arusa Pisuthipan, Published on 29/01/2013
» Back in 1915 when the people of Thailand, then known as Siam, fell prey to a serious hookworm infestation, an American physician from the Rockefeller Foundation, Dr Victor Heiser, stepped off a steamship and proceeded to Bangkok for meetings scheduled with government officials to discuss ways of eradicating the parasite.
When imagination meets technology
Life, Arusa Pisuthipan, Published on 14/05/2012
» Atippatai Suwan and Sanchai Noichan have a head full of imagination. And fortunately, they both have a good means to unleash their fantasies.