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The price of achievement
Life, Thana Boonlert, Published on 04/04/2026
» Loneliness is a very common issue in urban societies, yet it is often romanticised and not many explore its deeper layers. It is therefore encouraging to see it in a stage play.
Reclaiming motherhood
Life, Thana Boonlert, Published on 19/08/2025
» A woman slowly grows into a mother over time. It is a full-time job that never ends until the lights go out. After nine months of pregnancy, she nurtures her child for years until adulthood. Her reward? It is said that the child is the apple of her eye. It is expected for a woman to sacrifice her body, career and everything for this role.
Thai women still left holding the baby
Life, Thana Boonlert, Published on 18/03/2025
» If you buy abortion pills a day after 12 weeks of pregnancy, you have committed a crime.
Italians in Siam
Life, Thana Boonlert, Published on 03/01/2023
» When Mariannina Zuccaro arrived in Bangkok for her marriage with Mario Tamagno, an Italian architect who worked in Siam from 1900-1925, she encountered a stark contrast between her fiance's self-effacing character and monumental creations. According to Italians At The Court Of Siam, she referred to a photograph of the inauguration of a railway, on the back of which Tamagno listed everybody around King Chulalongkorn (Rama V), except himself.
Freelance artists need rights protections, union says
Life, Thana Boonlert, Published on 06/12/2022
» A recent survey by the Creative Workers Union Thailand (CUT) shows that almost 80% of illustrators have commission-based, underpaid jobs, highlighting the precarity of freelancers who have no access to financial security, welfare benefits orlegal protection.
Give mental health a chance
Life, Thana Boonlert, Published on 18/10/2022
» A string of mass shootings by officers in recent years may involve many factors, but they highlight the need for an improvement in mental health services, experts say, following the nursery massacre in Nong Bua Lam Phu's Na Klang district that left 36 people dead, mostly young children, and others injured.
Pandemic is disrupting travel plans
News, Thana Boonlert, Published on 04/05/2020
» When Alexis Luckey and Sam Matthias set foot in Bangkok in March, they never expected their journey would be turned upside down by the coronavirus pandemic. However, after spending a month at a local quarantine centre in Nonthaburi, the couple decided to put off their plans to return to the United States.
Milk flights a boost for babies
News, Thana Boonlert, Published on 13/08/2019
» Maternal love transcends all boundaries -- including distance.
New centre gives rehab a shot in the arm
News, Thana Boonlert, Published on 12/05/2019
» Many drug addicts go through hell in their struggle to quit, but the rehabilitation model known as "Camp 35" in Pattani aims to bring hope and optimism for the future back into their lives as they begin their long, difficult process of recovery.