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Big problems for miniature museum
Life, Ploenpote Atthakor, Published on 24/04/2012
» When Piyanuch Narkkong Sakultanark, director of a museum of miniature objects, decided to close her establishment, it caused a stir on the local museum scene.
Global vision
Life, Kanokporn Chanasongkram, Published on 02/04/2012
» Since the age of 8, Parinda Hasdarngkul grew up in the US with her uncle and aunt taking care of her when her parents lived in Thailand.
The slow and the curious
B Magazine, Sirinya Wattanasukchai, Published on 25/03/2012
» 'This car is the result of an argument between two designers," says Jiraporn Ruanngoen, a guide at the Jesada Technik classic car museum, as she opens the right door on a tiny, fridge-sized vehicle.
Healing broken hearts
News, Achadtaya Chuenniran, Published on 24/03/2012
» Yaowawit school in the Andaman province of Phangnga is an island of hope for underprivileged children and those orphaned by the 2004 tsunami.
Thinking outside the box
Guru, Pornchai Sereemongkonpol, Published on 16/03/2012
» Sometimes it's easy to get frustrated with Thailand's lack of logic when it comes to problem solving. For example, we're constantly warned about the threat of Bangkok sinking, yet developers continue to build hotels, condos and shopping centres, eroding the urban landscape. Ask a student a question that requires critical thinking, and expect a blank stare in response. Politicians go on about making society better, when in reality all they do is give themselves undeserved pay rises and free iPhones.
'Film' rolls into third act
B Magazine, Kritini Upayokin, Published on 11/03/2012
» It's a sunny Saturday afternoon, only five days before the opening of the film that is meant to mark his comeback following the paternity controversy that has dogged him for months and Rattapoom ''Film'' Tokongsub sits at the Windmill Summit Golf Club sipping watermelon smoothies. It's not exactly the bad boy image one would expect from a man whose name has been front-page tabloid fodder and linked with starlet flings, a paternity suit and DNA test requests.
Working the grapevine
Life, Published on 01/03/2012
» Visootha "Nikki" Lohitnavy is the first female oenologist (an expert in the science and study of wine and winemaking) in Thailand and, at 24, possibly the youngest. Nikki graduated with second class honours and won the Foster's Wine Estates Prize for Excellence in Winemaking while at college in 2006.
Degrees in destruction at schools of hard knocks
B Magazine, Andrew Biggs, Published on 26/02/2012
» I was witness to a seething mass of white shirts while sitting in Ekamai traffic this week.
Cross-Cultural name game turns diamonds into dung
B Magazine, Andrew Biggs, Published on 19/02/2012
» I once had a student who was preparing for a trip to Australia. He was a 30-year-old engineer from Chiang Mai who'd won a three-month scholarship to Melbourne. His English wasn't great but he was a fast learner and extremely diligent. Anyway, it wasn't his English that bothered me.
Digging in her heels
B Magazine, Published on 22/01/2012
» 'Was it hard to find? I hope the traffic wasn't too bad. Thank you for coming all the way here," says Pichayanund "Pring" Chindahporn as Brunch arrives at her parents' house tucked away in Bang Na. "Bangkok is fabulous but it suffocates me sometimes. In Paris, I chose not to commute and lived in a smaller apartment in the centre of town instead," she says before fetching iced water, while her maid appears with a tray of chocolate cake, tea and snacks.