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    In the driver's seat

    Asia focus, Nareerat Wiriyapong, Published on 14/12/2020

    » Ramesh Narasimhan has loved cars since he was young. The holder of an MBA from Australia's Monash University has turned his passion for cars into a successful career, and two decades on he still finds it fun to come to work every day.

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    Stop the shameless and unjust system

    Life, Tatat Bunnag, Published on 17/08/2020

    » What do you think of the saying, "In Thailand today, prisons are only built for the purpose of imprisoning the poor"?

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    Mushrooms make their presence felt

    News, Roger Crutchley, Published on 16/10/2022

    » The most exciting news of the week is that mushrooms were found growing on a seat of an active Bangkok bus. In addition to carrying passengers on the No 82 route from Phra Pradaeng to Phahurat, the bus featured a battered seat covered in newly sprouted mushrooms. Alas, the seat has now been replaced by spoilsport officials following complaints from passengers unimpressed by sitting next to a seat covered in fast-growing fungi.

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    Not every hero wears a cape

    News, Postbag, Published on 16/01/2022

    » Re: "Covid hysteria", (PostBag, Jan 12) and "Heedless manhunt, Omicron marches on", (PostBag, Jan 10).

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    Ford mum about rejig's Asean impact

    Business, Piyachart Maikaew, Published on 11/10/2018

    » US car maker Ford Motor Co remains silent on whether its Asean operations will be affected by a US$11-billion restructuring plan to cut 70,000 salaried employees worldwide.

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    Mazda traces 5-year plan for BoI perks

    Business, Published on 20/11/2018

    » Japanese carmaker Mazda Motor Corporation has planned to implement its 11.48-billion-baht hybrid electric vehicle (EV) projects over five years after winning Board of Investment (BoI) privileges on Monday.

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    Everything old is new again

    Guru, Kankanok Wichiantanon, Published on 11/10/2019

    » Bangkok is a city that constantly sees new constructions reaching up to the sky. But if you look close enough, a great number of ancient homes are being brought back to life, reborn with renewed purpose. They demonstrate that embracing historical beauty along with modern innovation produces fascinating and profitable results, with the reassurance that architecturally significant homes are being kept alive. Over the recent years, such places have been popping up more and we hope they continue to. Guru has scoped out some of Bangkok's most admirable, century-old homes to discover the stories behind them.

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    Company man

    Asia focus, Published on 19/03/2018

    » Shinsotsu-ikkatsu-saiyo, the tradition of simultaneous recruitment and employment of new graduates by companies, has long been unique to Japan and South Korea, before the latter abolished the practice in 2010. But in the world's third largest economy it is so embedded in the culture, who's to say it's not working for the country and its people?

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    High-minded brow

    Life, Published on 08/05/2018

    » May is a charitable month for Benefit Cosmetics, whose "Bold Is Beautiful" project invites people to contribute by having a brow wax to raise funds for charities worldwide.

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    Leave Yingluck be

    Oped, Postbag, Published on 13/01/2018

    » Re: "Officials 'must capture Yingluck'," (BP, Jan 12). We should all extend our sympathy to the government for having to resist pressure from various sources to pursue extradition proceedings against Yingluck Shinawatra.

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