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Costliest slices of the Big Mango
Business, Kanana Katharangsiporn, Published on 26/02/2018
» For your average Joe, 100,000 baht per square wah is no trifling sum for a piece of land. But for inner Bangkok, it's small change, as the area has set a record high of 3.17 million baht per sq wah for a 880-sq-wah plot on Lang Suan Road. (One wah equals two metres.)
Fighting cancer just half the battle
News, Supara Janchitfah, Published on 15/01/2018
» While picking up a bottle of cancer drugs from her desk, a nurse jokingly mentioned how we had to handle it with utmost care. Each bottle, which lasts 30 days, costs as much as half a car, she said. Almost four years ago, I was diagnosed with stage-four lung cancer. This means the disease has already spread to other parts of my body such as my bones, and it is incurable.
Many shades of grey
Asia focus, Pathom Sangwongwanich, Published on 06/02/2017
» Not far from Angkor Wat lies a village of wooden homes where 19 year-old Pa Kim San stands out among the other residents. As the treasurer of the local older people's association (OPA), the young Cambodian brings youthful energy to the mission of caring for the grey-haired community.
Sparkling Soda
Business, Busrin Treerapongpichit, Published on 07/03/2016
» From the day Soda T-shirts were unveiled in Bangkok in 1979, the brand has never failed to deliver bubbling designs on the Thai fashion scene.
Time for Thailand's cash-rich corporations to invest in disruption
Asia focus, Published on 02/11/2015
» One sign of Thailand's current economic doldrums is the big piles of corporate money sitting idle in the bank. Funds parked in ultra-large accounts have been mounting very fast in recent years, as Bank of Thailand data show.
Ageing society: Call for urgent measures to ease future issues
Business, Pathom Sangwongwanich, Published on 07/09/2015
» Thailand's advance towards an ageing population will cause future problems associated with fiscal expenditures, labour shortages and capital market development. Urgent measures are needed to tackle these challenges, says an academic.
Like K-pop? Then you’re a “ting”
Terry Fredrickson, Published on 12/05/2013
» Get started with Sithikorn Wongwudthianun’s long feature story on K-pop fans in Thailand in today’s Brunch magazine and find out why they are called “ting’s”. Then take a test to find out what kind of “ting” you might be.