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Missing persons still need legal help
News, Anchalee Kongrut, Published on 05/09/2019
» The Department of Special Investigation (DSI) is getting praise it well deserves. On Tuesday, the DSI held a joint press conference with other state agencies announcing they have found Porlajee "Billy" Rakchongcharoen, a Karen ethnic rights activist who disappeared more than five years ago.
TEST YOURSELF: Framing life and death
Gary Boyle, Published on 16/08/2019
» A new photo exhibition captures the extreme work of Bangkok’s rescue workers
Taking diners to new heights
Life, Melalin Mahavongtrakul, Published on 16/08/2019
» A creaky industrial elevator lit in red slowly brought us up to the plane's entrance. Taken a first step inside the refurbished aircraft that now doubles as a restaurant inside ChangChui Creative Park, it was like being transported into a dystopian world to taste a meal after doomsday.
Framing life and death
Life, Gary Boyle, Published on 14/08/2019
» Some nights nothing happens, and some nights too much happens. For one crew of rescue workers -- volunteers at one of Thailand's largest rescue organisations, Ruamkatanyu Foundation -- each shift is predictable only for its unpredictability. Nights at their base beneath a Nonthaburi overpass are spent monitoring the police radio channel for its most commonly-used word -- accident.
Hidden mysteries lie in wait inside Kenya's fossil treasury
AFP, Published on 09/08/2019
» NAIROBI - The only hint that something extraordinary lay inside the plain wooden drawer in an unassuming office behind Nairobi National Museum was a handwritten note stuck to the front: "Pull Carefully".
Hungarian doctors separate Bangladeshi twins joined at head
AFP, Published on 02/08/2019
» DHAKA - Bangladeshi twins who were joined at the head were recovering Friday after Hungarian surgeons performed a marathon 30-hour operation to separate their skulls and brains.
Hong Kong's expat police become focus of protester rage
AFP, Published on 17/07/2019
» HONG KONG: A peculiar legacy of Hong Kong's colonial past has emerged as a focal point of rage for anti-government protesters: a dwindling band of expat police officers now vilified for doing the bidding of the city's pro-Beijing leaders.
'Oldest remains' outside Africa reset human migration clock
AFP, Published on 11/07/2019
» PARIS - A 210,000-year-old skull has been identified as the earliest modern human remains found outside Africa, putting the clock back on mankind's arrival in Europe by more than 150,000 years, researchers said Wednesday.
Bathe in the beauty of Beethoven and Bruckner
Life, Published on 21/06/2019
» The Royal Bangkok Symphony Orchestra returns to the Main Hall of the Thailand Cultural Centre on June 28 (28 June) for a programme of works by two of the giants of European music, Ludwig van Beethoven and Anton Bruckner.
Grisly guidance
Life, Suwitcha Chaiyong, Published on 17/06/2019
» When Si Quey was accused of murdering seven children back in 1950s, the Chinese immigrant also was believed to have removed his victims' organs, boiling them before eating. After the murders that took place in Prachuap Khiri Khan, Bangkok, Nakhon Pathom and Rayong, Si Quey was arrested in Rayong in 1958, reportedly in possession of the body of a boy, together with an extracted heart and liver. He confessed to the murder but denied charges of cannibalism.