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Lip service: there's a pucker born every day
Spectrum, Nanchanok Wongsamuth, Published on 28/08/2016
» Plastic surgeon Chamnong Chirawichada has seen quite a few lip reduction cases during the past 15 years at his practice. But nothing has baffled him as much as the trend for thin lips shaped like buffalo horns which has emerged in Thailand -- and only Thailand -- in the past few years.
Rise of the rural middle class
Spectrum, Nanchanok Wongsamuth, Published on 10/08/2014
» Outside the Central department store in Ubon Ratchathani, a black Mercedes-Benz S-Class with yellow Lao licence plates drove from the car park. It was a Wednesday, but at weekends, a security guard told me, some 20% of the vehicles parked here are from Laos, many of which are European cars travelling to the northeastern province through Pakse or Mukdahan.
When the rescue causes harm
Spectrum, Nanchanok Wongsamuth, Published on 11/05/2014
» A visit by Chantawipa Apisuk and a group of sex workers to a Thai shelter for girls rescued from prostitution last April is a memory she will never forget.
Breaking down taboos
Business, Nanchanok Wongsamuth, Published on 03/09/2012
» Kasetsart University (KU) is well known for its agricultural programmes and already home to enclosures of chickens, pigs and fish, so it should have come as no surprise when it decided to set up a facility for water monitor lizards (Varanus salvator) almost a year ago.
The death of tradition
Business, Nanchanok Wongsamuth, Published on 09/07/2012
» Life for 58-year-old Sanong Cherdchoo back in 1987, like many others living in Chon Buri's Bang Lamung district, was blissful simplicity.
Monitors: Pprotected, Then Hunted
Business, Nanchanok Wongsamuth, Published on 27/06/2012
» Who would have thought that the reptile most hated in Thai society, taken as a jinx bringing us bad luck, might end up as something useful in people's daily lives?Leather made from water monitor lizards is expected to be commercially manufactured over the next two years after the reptile is taken off the list of preserved species, according to the chairman of the Thai Leather Association.