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Thailand's bumpy road to the World Cup
Life, Yvonne Bohwongprasert, Published on 25/06/2018
» As a football-loving nation, qualifying for the World Cup has been the ultimate dream for Thailand.
Man of vision
Life, Yvonne Bohwongprasert, Published on 21/01/2016
» Staffan Herrström, Swedish ambassador to Thailand, is a man of vision.
The accidental president
Life, Yvonne Bohwongprasert, Published on 03/12/2015
» Dressed in simple cream trousers and a burgundy colour blouse, Ameenah Gurib-Fakim seems at home in her new role as the first female president of the Republic of Mauritius, an island nation in the Indian Ocean famed for its beaches and lagoons.
Thoughts of home
Life, Yvonne Bohwongprasert, Published on 16/11/2015
» According to official figures, there are a million Myanmar migrant workers in Thailand. In the wake of recent democratic elections in the country, Life spoke to four of them to see whether they hold any hopes of returning home
True essence of Islam
Life, Yvonne Bohwongprasert, Published on 20/01/2015
» On a recent afternoon it was business as usual at Haroon Mosque, a 150-year-old Muslim enclave neighboured by a Buddhist temple, Catholic church and the gleaming new French embassy. Residents went about their daily chores before the call for afternoon prayers sounded from the mosque. Savouring the centuries-old community's laid-back feeling were a couple of European tourists who wandered around with their cameras.
Overcoming the depths of depression
Life, Yvonne Bohwongprasert, Published on 18/11/2014
» Not in her wildest dreams did Saitong Sittieansak, a volunteer mental health social worker in Nonthaburi’s Khlong Phra Udom Pak Kret community, see herself suffering the same emotional traumas as the very people she has helped through the years.
Home away from home
Life, Yvonne Bohwongprasert, Published on 22/07/2014
» It is the final week of Ramadan, the Islamic holy month of fasting. During the day, one of Ramkhamhaeng’s busiest roads, Soi 53, is still devoid of activities. But come sunset, as the muezzin calls for evening prayer from the nearby mosque and announces the time of the fast-breaking meal, the soi comes alive and the air is filled with chatter and aroma of food and tea.
In the hot seat
Life, Yvonne Bohwongprasert, Published on 15/07/2014
» Forty-seven-year-old Bee’s chronic insomnia has somewhat subsided since the coup d’état in May, which brought to an end political unrest and much-awaited peace in the Kingdom.
A global approach
Muse, Yvonne Bohwongprasert, Published on 10/05/2014
» Bold yet unassuming Supathra Kuratana comes across as a people person. The managing director’s knack for putting those around her at ease has enabled her subordinates at T-Holding, a subsidiary company of Thai Union Group which distributes and markets brands such as Sealect, Fisho and Bellotta, to expect a caring yet strict leader.
Stopping the madness
Life, Yvonne Bohwongprasert, Published on 03/03/2014
» Festering anger over the senseless deaths of four children who became the latest victims of political violence in Trat province and Bangkok’s Ratchaprasong has put Veena, a noodle vendor with an avid interest in politics, on an emotional roller coaster. As she closely monitors what daily newspapers have to say on the deaths, she gets irate and begins to spew a tirade of insults about ousted prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra and his red-shirt supporters, whom she blames for being behind the incident. “They’re the aggressor, so terrible,” Veena says.