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Soft power sells best when not force-fed
Arusa Pisuthipan, Published on 07/08/2023
» South Korea knows how to sell its products. Apart from K-entertainment, the country has also popularised K-merchandise through pop culture. From fried chicken and ramyeon cup noodles to egg drop sandwiches and soju, instant coffee and dietary supplements, we have seen countless products from South Korea in series and movies successfully create a huge customer base in Thailand.
A senior moment
Life, Arusa Pisuthipan, Published on 04/02/2015
» In the first of a series delving into the work of people often overlooked, Life follows a caregiver at a home for the elderly, hearing her thoughts on a country verging on becoming an ageing society, and what actions need to be taken to ensure the aged are not forgotten.
When the carrot works more than the stick
Life, Arusa Pisuthipan, Published on 26/08/2019
» If Marium, the famous eight-month-old orphaned dugong, was able to speak, she might ask what she had done to deserve being fed all that plastic.
Safe as milk
Life, Arusa Pisuthipan, Published on 12/08/2019
» Breast milk is the best food for babies. It has a myriad of health benefits: it's an immunity booster, the most complete form of infant nutrition, great for the brain, the list goes on.
Wake up and smell the coffee
Life, Arusa Pisuthipan, Published on 02/05/2019
» Coffee is a big business. The world's population drinks around 3.5 billion cups of coffee every day, according to a 2017 research paper. But your cup of joe is responsible for a large amount of waste too -- starting from the farm all the way to the cafe.
The truth about cats and dogs
Life, Arusa Pisuthipan, Published on 23/10/2018
» Aunt Chutima has adopted 70 stray cats and 30 stray dogs in her neighbourhood of Ang Thong province. Yet she never considers them to be a burden, even though she is partially blind. Each month, she spends over 10,000 baht on food for the abandoned animals that now call her place home.
Take antibiotics off the menu
Life, Arusa Pisuthipan, Published on 28/03/2017
» As a pig-farm owner in Nakhon Pathom, Sitthichai Suksomboon spent hundreds of thousands of baht each month on antibiotics to keep over 1,000 pigs in his possession healthy and disease-free. Little did he realise that by doing so, he was gradually putting himself in really bad shape.
How scared should you be?
Life, Arusa Pisuthipan, Published on 16/09/2016
» Despite a rapid increase in the number of Zika-infected patients reported earlier this month in Thailand, the public have been left in the dark about the virus.
Nurtured with little nutrients
Life, Arusa Pisuthipan, Published on 10/11/2015
» James Roland-Jones came to realise that parents of little ones in Thailand had limited food choices for their babies when he roamed a neighbourhood supermarket seven years ago, hunting for dietary supplements for his seven-month-old son Peter.
'Necessary' fight for animal rights
Life, Arusa Pisuthipan, Published on 30/01/2015
» 'Kankluay", a pet dog belonging to Saiyon and Jomsri Khamphukaew in the northeastern province of Nong Khai, is the first animal in Thailand to benefit from the newly enacted Prevention of Animal Cruelty and Provision of Animal Welfare Act.