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Consultancy takes off
Life, Kaona Pongpipat, Published on 28/05/2013
» From childhood and through-out her working career, Atchara Juicharern has always had within her a passion for teaching. She has always loved talking to a large audience, but unlike being a stand-up comedian, she not only wanted to entertain but to inform, and have the audience learn something educational and useful in an enjoyable way. So while it's not what she planned, it probably shouldn't come as a complete surprise that she founded and currently manages AcComm & Image International, a leadership and staff development consulting company.
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Chinn's up in the kitchen
Life, Kaona Pongpipat, Published on 03/06/2013
» Ask Bobby Chinn to introduce himself and the answer, fired off in a single breath, is: "I'm half-Egyptian, half-Chinese. Born in New Zealand. Educated in England. From San Francisco. Have been living in Vietnam for the last 18 years." A pause, then the punch: "Oh, and I was conceived in Thailand."
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Pandora's paradox
Life, Kaona Pongpipat, Published on 19/06/2013
» This coming Monday, June 24, marks the 81st anniversary of the birth of democracy in Thailand. It's been a rough road we've taken since the 1932 Revolution, followed by subsequent coups and counter-coups, the decades of dictatorship, the student uprisings, the money politics and the complication of visible and invisible forces, right up to our deep divides of now. All of these are presented in an ambitious documentary film to be released on Monday. Prachathipathai, or Paradoxocracy, chronicles and comments on the eight-decade journey of Thai-style democracy whose past is sometimes forgotten and whose future is always uncertain.
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Snappy days
Life, Kaona Pongpipat, Published on 01/07/2013
» It comes as no surprise that Dr Brady Barr _ National Geographic's resident reptile expert _ finds the thousands of crocodilians he has caught so far to be his "comfort zone". To date, he is famed for having landed more than 5,000 crocodiles and alligators.
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Courage down to his bones
Life, Kaona Pongpipat, Published on 09/07/2013
» For most people in their early 20s, it's either about building good careers that can make lots of money for brighter futures, or searching for love to ensure even more complete and happier lives. But for 24-year-old Teerapat Boonyakiat, it's all about doing everything he can to stay alive.
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Special delivery
Life, Kaona Pongpipat, Published on 06/08/2013
» Rather bulky and not very tall, Pol Sen Sgt Maj Mana Jokkok-sung doesn't have the ideal physique for chasing thieves. Late in the evening as he and his colleagues are about to mount their motorcycles, ready to go home, a voice comes through his police radio.
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The man behind the spotlight
Life, Kaona Pongpipat, Published on 12/08/2013
» It's an equally difficult task listing what Porachon Sathanon has done professionally for the past 15 years as it is predicting where his passion will lead him in the future.
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Fast and Furious 8: Life in the slow lane
Life, Kaona Pongpipat, Published on 21/08/2013
» I got on a No. 8 bus the other day expecting to experience what people have been talking about this past week _ a nightmare. Taking a seat at the back, I braced myself for some action _ the sudden lurching off and slamming of brakes, cursing from the driver, yelling from the conductor, pulling up at the wrong spots, dropping passengers off in the middle of the road, and the speeding up and overtaking of other buses.
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Chopin at the bit
Life, Kaona Pongpipat, Published on 29/08/2013
» Chanyapong Thongsawang's bio is pretty straightforward: he fell in love with the piano when he was about seven years old, and more than 20 years later the feeling's stronger than ever. When other kids started dozing off at the first strains of classical music, it was the start of a lifelong journey for Chanyapong that has become more and more "extreme" as years have rolled by.
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Lessons in letters
Life, Kaona Pongpipat, Published on 14/10/2013
» Before receiving an official phone call from the judging committee or the competition organiser, Angkarn Chanthathip learned he had won this year's SEA Write Award from a post "some Facebook friend made". It wasn't on his Wall, but randomly in the Newsfeed _ perhaps the most un-poetic mode of modern communication.
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