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Plastic addiction bags Pacific island
B Magazine, Andrew Biggs, Published on 30/04/2017
» With a morning meeting scheduled, I pop down to my local supermarket the night before to purchase a few bakery items. I make a habit of arriving at the bakery counter at 8.01pm because all baked goods enjoy a 25% discount from 8 o'clock onwards.
Crossing boundaries
Muse, Melalin Mahavongtrakul, Published on 08/04/2017
» On a recent afternoon, Muse dropped by a private residence on Sukhumvit 31 where we met Thai transgender actress Treechada "Poyd" Malayaporn.
Couture Gold
Life, Published on 31/03/2017
» Guo Pei is a government's dream, a fashionista's dream, a common man's dream, a continent's dream. Only once in a blue moon does one person manage to be all these things, especially because the first sometimes brings a bureaucratically archaic factor into the picture, if not done right. But this Chinese haute couturier shatters any perceptions one may have regarding the glitzy industry of high dressmaking.
Take antibiotics off the menu
Life, Arusa Pisuthipan, Published on 28/03/2017
» As a pig-farm owner in Nakhon Pathom, Sitthichai Suksomboon spent hundreds of thousands of baht each month on antibiotics to keep over 1,000 pigs in his possession healthy and disease-free. Little did he realise that by doing so, he was gradually putting himself in really bad shape.
The craft of cures
Life, Arusa Pisuthipan, Published on 08/02/2017
» While on her way back home from Wat Leng Noei Yi in Bangkok's Chinatown on a recent Tuesday, Dusadee Thanaviboolsawat saw a sign that took her down memory lane. It read "Berlin Pharmaceutical Museum".
Following in her father's footsteps
Life, Karnjana Karnjanatawe, Published on 24/01/2017
» Born in Thailand to an immigrant Chinese father, Yupin Dhanabadeesakul remembers the time when her family lived hand to mouth. While she's made it through the tough times and her family now owns a ceramic factory in Lampang that produces the iconic, widely used and much plagiarised rooster-pattern bowls, or cham kai, Yupin is haunted by two fears.
Hold the sugar!
Life, Arusa Pisuthipan, Published on 22/11/2016
» Under the country's blistering heatwave, something cold and sweet is always welcomed with open arms. Think the popular Honey Toast served with ice cream or the Korean fluffy ice-shaving Bingsu. But for a less luxurious rendition, Thais also have iced sweet drinks. Served in plastic cups from many street vendors, only a few sips of these beverages are so refreshing we might totally forget what they actually contain.
Homey hospitality
Muse, Published on 08/10/2016
» Nopparat Aumpa of Banyan Tree Bangkok doesn't seem like your typical hotel general manager, possessing an autocratic personality. Instead, she is cheerful, down-to-earth, amicable.
Attending Yale from afar
Life, Published on 07/09/2016
» Mobile-education technology company Qooco not only provides a platform for enjoyable and convenient language learning; it also allows learners to attend the prestigious Yale Young Global Scholars (YYGS) -- Qooco Scholarship programme. Applications are now being accepted.
National jobs, international workers
Life, Published on 06/09/2016
» Last week activist Srisuwan Janya filed a petition with the Office of the Ombudsman claiming that Thailand's new tallest building, MahaNakhon Tower, breached Thai laws by hiring a foreign architect to design it. He also complained that several foreign workers also run or own shops in markets around the country, a practice that is against the law.