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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.
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.
City governor poll offers us a glimmer of hope
Oped, Atiya Achakulwisut, Published on 08/03/2022
» Following a long delay, the cabinet is expected to set the date for the Bangkok governor election for May 29, according to news reports. To say that it's long-awaited is an understatement.
Paween 'thriller' timely reminder of chilling reality
Oped, Atiya Achakulwisut, Published on 22/02/2022
» Does it sound right for Prime Minister Gen Prayut Chan-o-cha to tell Pol Maj Gen Paween Pongsirin to come back and fight after he had been explicit that the threat against his life came from "the highest-ranking people" in the country?
When zebra crossings become death traps
Oped, Atiya Achakulwisut, Published on 25/01/2022
» A female doctor's death on a zebra crossing on Friday is no doubt a heartbreaking tragedy. But will it make a difference to the country's notorious killer roads? That remains highly doubtful.
'Squid Game' rings true in our new reality
Oped, Atiya Achakulwisut, Published on 12/10/2021
» The warning does come across like a sick joke. Following the popularity of Netflix’s series Squid Game, deputy police spokesman Pol Col Kissana Phathanacharoen told parents to beware of violence seen in the show.
We've all had to bargain with a 'friend of Choke'
News, Atiya Achakulwisut, Published on 21/05/2019
» What is the difference between a chief justice who refused to show his driving licence to a policeman claiming he was a friend of the officer's boss and a prime minister who justifies refuses to discuss how the 250 senators were selected by saying people should treat him with respect?
Legal system is a hoax on the public
News, Atiya Achakulwisut, Published on 04/09/2018
» The death was barely noticeable. The news about it was brief, published almost two weeks after the event. The father of the man who plunged to his death from the 8th-floor window of the Criminal Court Building last month after hearing the lower court had dismissed the case involving the murder of his son died out of grief.
Bureaucrats and artists no bedfellows
News, Atiya Achakulwisut, Published on 15/05/2018
» Their sidewalks are crooked, pedestrian bridges poorly designed. When they go out and cut trees, people cry out in horror at the butchers' work. Their bike lanes seem to go nowhere and their sewage covers famously cause people to fall over, requiring hundreds of stitches.
When two sets of rules spell double trouble
News, Atiya Achakulwisut, Published on 27/03/2018
» Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha may want to tread carefully in exercising his special power under Section 44 to serve his increasingly arbitrary and unpredictable decisions. These have proven even more erratic recently, especially after he invoked Section 44 to fire Election Commissioner Somchai Srisutthiyakorn last week.