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Something's brewing
Spectrum, Nanchanok Wongsamuth, Published on 15/01/2017
» A fortune teller suggested Puripong Suthisopapan and his business partner focus on selling beer when they opened their Be Right Back restaurant in Khon Kaen over a year ago. Starting only with one refrigerator, most of the beer they sold was illegally home-brewed as Thai law prohibits small-scale brewing.
Fish out of water
Spectrum, Paritta Wangkiat, Published on 16/10/2016
» A rarely sighted creature -- the giant freshwater stingray -- was lying still on the bottom of the big blue tank.
Island adopts bio-gas
News, Nauvarat Suksamran, Published on 01/08/2015
» Living on a small and sparsely populated island in Phangnga, the locals have found it difficult to receive any help from authorities. But the hardship has also taught them to stand on their own feet.
Sick or swim: Olympic teams to swim, boat in Rio's filth
Associated Press, Published on 31/07/2015
» RIO DE JANEIRO – Athletes in next year's Summer Olympics here will be swimming and boating in waters so contaminated with human faeces that they risk becoming violently ill and unable to compete in the games, an Associated Press investigation has found.
Thailand leading Asia in cracking down on drinking
Bloomberg News, Published on 23/07/2015
» By banning alcohol sales near universities and technical colleges, Thailand is putting the nation at the forefront of efforts in Asia to curb booze consumption.
A clash of spirits
Spectrum, Nanchanok Wongsamuth, Published on 07/06/2015
» The houses of the Christians stand in stark contrast to the rest of the households where the roofs are thatched with cogon grass. Located on the lower end of a mountain range in the remote North, the homes of the converts are equipped with television sets and have roofs of corrugated iron that glisten silver in the sun, which are forbidden under animistic Lua beliefs that centre on spirits.
The baffling and convoluted logic behind our wines of discontent
Spectrum, Published on 31/08/2014
» First a few facts. Thailand has one of the most convoluted systems for taxing alcohol anywhere in the world.
Tipsy in traffic
Spectrum, Published on 29/09/2013
» It's Monday night and you decided to have just one more pint with the lads before your commute home. What could go wrong? Now you're behind the wheel of your 5 Series on the inside lane of Sukhumvit Road with a police breathalyser stop 30m ahead, cars on all flanks and nowhere to go.
Tides of confusion surround oil clean-up
Spectrum, Published on 11/08/2013
» I ndependent marine biologists and government agencies charged with supervising the clean-up of last month's estimated 50,000 litre PTT oil spill in Rayong are at odds over the impact the slick has already had on marine life.
No slick explanation for huge PTT oil spill
Spectrum, Published on 04/08/2013
» The head of PTT's oil slick clean-up team was driving back to Bangkok last Sunday evening from Rayong when he received a phone call he wasn't expecting.