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Bangkok, bluntly
Life, Duangphat Sitthipat, Published on 10/12/2014
» It would be quite offbeat for a Thai to make a fuss about the dirtiness of the capital city. But when an outsider brings up such an ugly truth, it slaps the country right in the face.
Open spaces
Life, Yvonne Bohwongprasert, Published on 27/01/2014
» Motor sports enthusiast Wijak Lertprasertpakorn is as competitive on the auto racing course as he is while juggling the pressures of his family empire. The 39-year-old, whose good looks mean he could easily be mistaken for a model, is managing director of TBN Group, a Toyota dealer and operator of the popular community mall Paseo, which his father, Chan, founded.
The world at their feet
Life, Parisa Pichitmarn, Published on 21/11/2013
» It has taken Roy Flynn, 36, and Nicole Denise Schreiter, 31,500 days to travel by car from Switzerland to Thailand. Leaving their old lives as a technical businessman and nurse in Switzerland behind without any doubts in March last year, thanks to a sense of wanderlust, the couple has travelled through 23 countries, four world religions, and many plateaus and climates after saving for the trip for seven years. Their route on land has led them to Eastern Europe, the Middle East, Central Asia, Siberia, Mongolia, Western China, the Himalayas, India, and finally to Southeast Asia.
Epicure on track
Guru, Pimchanok Phungbun Na Ayudhya, Published on 17/05/2013
» As Deputy Managing Director at Toyota T B N Co, Ltd, Ajcharaporn Phanpanit Lertprasertpakorn is busy overseeing her family-owned automobile business and preparing the launch of the family’s latest venture, The Paseo, a community mall on Sukaphiban 3 Road, to be opened this year. The versatile young exec still manages to share her tight schedule with her abounding interests that include everything from racing (having won a series of championships) to baking (now attending Le Cordon Bleu Dusit Culinary School) to writing (planning to launch a food book). The outgoing epicure can also be seen on her food TV show Aab Aroi by Por Mour Nu on www.iheretv.asia.
Canvas creations: young boxing promoter dreams big
B Magazine, Published on 03/02/2013
» Growing up, Nuttadaj ''Boat'' Vachirarattanawong's main playground was the boxing ring at Lumpini Stadium. As the son of Thailand's pre-eminent boxing promoter Virat Vachirarattanawong, he was raised around muay Thai and learned every facet of it, from the strategies of the boxers in the ring to the everyday tasks involved in running and promoting Thailand's national sport.
A year in fashion
Muse, Published on 29/12/2012
» An A-Z of key events, movements and happenings in 2012 for Thailand and the world.
Terminal love for the airport left behind
B Magazine, Andrew Biggs, Published on 09/09/2012
» Ran into my old friend Don the other day. Good old Don. We used to see each other all the time back in the day. For a good 15 years or so there was hardly a week that went by where we didn't catch up.
For the sake of appearance
Life, Yvonne Bohwongprasert, Published on 03/09/2012
» Beneath Olympic silver medallist Pimsiri Sirikaew's hard-bitten, masculine exterior beats the heart of a young, vivacious, and insecure woman.
Always on the run
Life, Published on 12/07/2012
» American writer Harold Stephens ran away from home at the age of eight when he heard that there were caves in the woods near his home in Bridgeville, Pennsylvania. "I have been travelling all my life," Stephens says.
An assortment of experiences
Life, Alfred Tha Hla, Published on 11/07/2012
» Life for Vina Churdboonchart has always presented itself like a box of chocolates with delicious pieces that reveal their true individual flavours only after each bite.