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Defeating death
Life, Tatat Bunnag, Published on 02/07/2019
» Losing people you love is hard. Accepting loss is extremely challenging. People from different cultures and religious backgrounds have their own beliefs on how to deal with grief, or whether or not there's life after death.
Read any good books lately?
Life, Tatat Bunnag, Published on 05/04/2019
» Literary magazines around the world have long helped readers to discover exciting new writers and serve as channels to read new works by established authors.
Striving for safer passage of goods
Spectrum, Om Jotikasthira, Published on 22/07/2018
» The European Union (EU) has commissioned Thailand to conduct training workshops for the transportation of dangerous goods in the Greater Mekong Subregion (GMS), as part of a move to get the entire sub-region to adopt United Nations-based safety regulations for road-based logistics operations.
Out of the jungle
Business, Published on 07/07/2018
» The man sits stoically drinking clear soup, a dish he has had for breakfast and lunch every single day for the last decade, as the rest of the group partakes in generous portions of pork, chicken and rice. Sathien Setthasit, founder of Carabao Group, says he has not eaten rice since he went into the jungle to protest the government after the revolts of the 1970s.
Grown child-refugee now helps others flee Myanmar
Associated Press, Published on 16/11/2017
» KUTUPALONG, Bangladesh: Zahida Begum does not remember her home village, a tiny speck amid the mountains and forests of Myanmar. She was only 18-months-old when her mother smuggled her across the Naf River on a fishing boat, carrying her into Bangladesh.
Animal farms fuel cruel, illegal trade in rare wildlife
New York Times, Published on 06/06/2017
» BOKEO PROVINCE, Laos -- The tiger paced back and forth in its cage, groaning mournfully. A second big cat slept soundly in the corner, while a third stared blankly at the bars.
To be or not to be in Thailand
Spectrum, Jeerawat Na Thalang, Published on 30/04/2017
» Most Thais regard William Shakespeare's plays as high art which they have to climb a balcony to understand, though they may be surprised to find that the Bard's plays are not all Greek to them.
The truth about Ayutthaya
Spectrum, Jeerawat Na Thalang, Published on 16/04/2017
» Most people think of the Ayutthaya period in terms of its cultural heritage, but Warangkana Nibhatsukit's latest book highlights the economic aspect of the ancient capital.
UN child sex ring left victims but no arrests
Associated Press, Published on 13/04/2017
» PORT-AU-PRINCE, HAITI - In the ruins of a tropical hideaway where jet-setters once sipped rum under the Caribbean sun, the abandoned children tried to make a life for themselves. They begged and scavenged for food, but they never could scrape together enough to beat back the hunger, until the UN peacekeepers moved in a few blocks away.
Lifting the veil on virgin brides for sale
Spectrum, Chaiyot Yongcharoenchai, Published on 16/10/2016
» After being sold by her own father, Anong, a 15-year-old girl from Muang Fuang in Laos, came to realise that her home wasn't the protective, caring place she thought it was.