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Temple dogs a victim of religious commercialisation
Spectrum, Nattha Thepbamrung, Published on 25/03/2018
» Temples in tourist hotspot Phuket are experiencing a crisis of identity: are they places of compassion, contemplation and meditation, the spritual and social centres of the community? Or are they tourist attractions, beholden mainly to visitors?
Getting through a dangerous haze
Spectrum, Nattha Thepbamrung, Published on 31/08/2014
» As a freshman, Panuwad Hongsawatchai felt the wrath of his fellow students at Maejo University in Phrae when he refused to be part of its traditional hazing ceremonies intended to absorb him into campus life.
The battle for hearts and minds
Spectrum, Nattha Thepbamrung, Published on 22/06/2014
» With Thailand’s long history of military coups, the country’s generals are well versed in the ways of post-putsch propaganda.
Degrees of dishonesty
Spectrum, Nattha Thepbamrung, Published on 25/05/2014
» Plagiarism seems to be a new word — especially for students.
Band on the run
Spectrum, Nattha Thepbamrung, Published on 06/04/2014
» Members of a Bangkok high school band have learned some very hard lessons in a very public way — and the scandal in which they became embroiled is growing by the day.
Beware of pirated products
Spectrum, Nattha Thepbamrung, Published on 24/11/2013
» At a shopping mall in Pathumwan, the luxury make-up, beauty lotions and creams are on sale for a fraction of the price they would fetch in the ritzy up-market shops of Sukhumvit Road.
How Thammasat lost its faculties
Spectrum, Nattha Thepbamrung, Published on 22/09/2013
» When second-year arts student Saran Chuchai, 20, hung posters around Thammasat earlier this month of her simulating sex while wearing a uniform she triggered a debate that has forced the university to question its position as the bastion of academic liberalism in Thailand.