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Funny product name fails: Thailand's edition
Guru, Pornchai Sereemongkonpol, Published on 09/03/2018
» English isn't Thailand's official language and that may explain incidents of unintentionally funny product names or slogans in English of Thai products. Some may be the case of not knowing the dirty nuances of English language, while some may argue that the marketing team was being cheeky and clever so that people will talk about their products' curious names. I decided to compile funny product names in recent times for your not-so-SFW entertainment. I didn't get paid by the owners of these products, btw. They have been selected simply because of their funniness -- intentionally or not.
Fighting cancer just half the battle
News, Supara Janchitfah, Published on 15/01/2018
» While picking up a bottle of cancer drugs from her desk, a nurse jokingly mentioned how we had to handle it with utmost care. Each bottle, which lasts 30 days, costs as much as half a car, she said. Almost four years ago, I was diagnosed with stage-four lung cancer. This means the disease has already spread to other parts of my body such as my bones, and it is incurable.
Time to take a bite out of airport prices
News, Umesh Pandey, Published on 14/01/2018
» Any frequent traveller will be well aware that grabbing a bite to eat at either of Bangkok's international airports will cost you significantly more than you'd pay for the same meal outside the premises.
China's cashless revolution is likely to spread afar
News, Adam Minter, Published on 20/07/2017
» On a recent trip to Shenzhen, in southern China, I came across a subway busker with two tip jars. The first was a cardboard box filled with coins and bills; the second was a small QR code taped to the box that allowed passersby to leave a tip by smartphone. On one level, this was simply smart business: Chinese made around $5.5 trillion in e-payment transactions last year. But it also offered a glimpse of the future.
Social democracy offers a third force
News, Published on 06/03/2017
» With the regime's political reconciliation game plan faltering, Thailand faces the prospect of a seemingly unending cycle of crisis, coup and constitution. Neither military rule nor the next constitution, which both embed non-accountability, offer hope for long-term socio-political stability.
Private sector has ways to halt slavery
News, Published on 14/11/2016
» Human trafficking affects most parts of the world and impedes human development. According to the 2016 Slavery Index, some 46 million men, women and children are modern day slaves, with about half in Asia.
Facebook's agenda and worrying hold on the news
News, Farhad Manjoo, Published on 13/05/2016
» Facebook is the world's most influential source of news.
Piracy report is hypocritical
News, Published on 06/05/2015
» The United States has published its annual list of intellectual property pirates. To no one's surprise, Thailand is grouped with a dozen others as the worst offenders. The report goes through the usual and obvious litany of pirated movies and software, and it accuses Thai officials of ennui over the issue. It also gets to the real reason Thailand is on the "Section 301 priority watch list": hypocrisy.
Piracy wars misdirected
News, Published on 11/02/2015
» The tepid response to a highway raid on lorryloads of counterfeit goods seems to carry a message. Police say they were acting on a tip-off when they decided to inspect three parked lorries on a secondary road just outside Korat last Saturday night. They said they found 44,000 individual items, almost all of them knock-offs of brand-name handbags, shoes, ornaments and the like. The goods were supposedly smuggled in from Laos. The media and the public showed little interest.
Death of Barbie − and her allure − has been greatly exaggerated
News, Published on 29/01/2015
» Mattel chief executive Bryan Stockton resigned this week after a five-quarter sales slump and three years of flagging sales of the company's best-known brand, Barbie. It is, however, definitely not the end of the Barbie phenomenon, or, at any rate, of what Barbie stands for: An unattainable ideal of princess-like femininity that is all about looks, not brains. I know — I have a four-year-old daughter.