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A chance of less haze?
Life, Anchalee Kongrut, Published on 20/01/2016
» Despite the cool weather, the period between late January to March is not a pleasant time for villagers in Lampang and the other northern provinces. It is the time that haze -- caused by the swathes of smoke from forest fires and the burning of agricultural waste -- blankets the region. The man-made smog has been an inevitable seasonal event. Every year, farmers need to clear agricultural leftovers on their farms before sowing new seeds in May. In the old days, haze was tolerable. But mono-cultivation, especially large scale corn plantation, has recently forced farmers to clear large plots of land quickly for re-harvesting.
Whatever the leather
Life, Anchalee Kongrut, Published on 09/12/2015
» Like many Dutch people, Anneke van der Heide Wijma uses a bicycle to get around. One day, while pedalling across Amsterdam on her way home, van derHeide Wijma saw an old sofa discarded on the street.
Sustainability, taking flight
Life, Anchalee Kongrut, Published on 11/11/2015
» At first glance, with its steel scaffolding the newly opened Schiphol-Noord bus station looks like any other unremarkable building. And in terms of European architectural design, the station locally known as Knooppunt Schiphol-Noord pales in comparison to flashier terminals such as the orange, whale jaw-shaped bus station at Hoofddrop's Spaarne Hospital in the Netherlands, or Poole Bus Station in the UK, with its giant mural.
Using man to save nature
Life, Anchalee Kongrut, Published on 28/10/2015
» It is hard to imagine that Suan Pa Ket Nom Klao -- 75 rai of forest in Bang Krachao -- is so close and accessible from the centre of Bangkok. Just a few minutes ferry ride from the pier at Klong Toey, visitors find themselves in leafy orchards and among a web of small canals.
Tha Maharaj community mall blends old and new
Life, Anchalee Kongrut, Published on 27/03/2015
» Maharaj Road, particularly the section that runs from Thammasat University to Tha Tien pier, is known as a hub of amulet trading, as well as a place to find idiosyncratic second-hand goods such as eight-track tapes, old dentures or bottled voodoo babies (real and fake). But keeping with the trend of gentrifying old neighbourhoods, there is new hype about the area in the form of Tha Maharaj, a gleaming community mall by the river that opened on March 14.