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Life as a meal
Life, Atiya Achakulwisut, Published on 05/12/2025
» A national team swimmer, a pioneer of the Chef's Table private dining experience, a celebrity chef who has served as judge and head chef trainer on popular cooking shows as Top Chef Thailand and Restaurant War Thailand, veteran chef Supamongkon Supapipat, better known as chef Art, is under fire. He is returning to an intense, high-stakes culinary contest, but trading the judge's chair for the kitchen's heat in Iron Chef Thailand.
A guide to self-healing
Life, Atiya Achakulwisut, Published on 11/08/2023
» 'Know thyself" -- the most well-known of three maxims said to be inscribed upon the Temple of Apollo in Delphi -- is believed to be the beginning of all wisdom.
'Soft power' is not built upon sweet music
Oped, Atiya Achakulwisut, Published on 19/04/2022
» The buzz over #khaonieomamuang and #MILLILiveatCoachella seems to have an ironic twist with Prime Minister Gen Prayut Chan-o-cha jumping on the bandwagon and claiming he was the one who nudged Thailand to develop its "soft power" to attract the world's attention.
Stranger things happening in our strange land
Oped, Atiya Achakulwisut, Published on 05/04/2022
» Strange things are happening in Thailand. Who would believe we would be experiencing a bout of cold and rain in April? But here we are, wrapping ourselves up in thick clothes at the height of summer just a week before Songkran.
Real justice shouldn't be entertaining
News, Atiya Achakulwisut, Published on 15/02/2022
» It is ironic, as laughable as it is sad. Facetiously, dramatically and almost jokingly, justice was literally seen to be done via the live streaming of an event last week when local residents and reporters stormed into a monk's quarters and found a woman hiding there at night.
ASF scandal, pork prices hit govt credibility
Oped, Atiya Achakulwisut, Published on 18/01/2022
» The Prayut Chan-o-cha government has survived five waves of Covid-19 but it could finally be brought down sick by a swine virus.
Thamanat saga allows peek into the PM's mind
Oped, Atiya Achakulwisut, Published on 29/09/2021
» Is the game over? The three Big Ps -- Gen Prayut, Gen Prawit and Gen Anupong aka Big Pok -- seem to have secured power as they vowed to be brothers till death do they part while the deposed former deputy agriculture minister Thamanat Prompow appears to have faded away.
Are we ready for compulsory vaccine passes?
Oped, Atiya Achakulwisut, Published on 07/09/2021
» With just nine million people fully vaccinated or about 13% of the entire population, will such a policy unfairly discriminate those who have not had a chance to take both doses or to any at all?
Govt building Sinovac castles in the sand
Oped, Atiya Achakulwisut, Published on 06/07/2021
» What do we do when more and more medical personnel get infected with Covid-19 even though they had received two doses of Sinovac?
Section 112 and Covid shots are not a good mix
News, Atiya Achakulwisut, Published on 26/01/2021
» Is Section 112 or the lese majeste law a kill or cure for the government when it comes to its Covid-19 vaccination plan?