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Life, Arusa Pisuthipan, Published on 08/04/2015
» Payong Huangmitr makes a living selling din sor pong — the natural white powder Thai people put on their faces and mix with water during Songkran. During next week's festival, where revellers' faces everywhere in the country will be painted with the powder, she expects to rake it in.
Life, Arusa Pisuthipan, Published on 28/04/2015
» In the summertime, many people shun the sun. Ladies apply thick sunscreen, wear shades and stay indoors to avoid as many rays from the sun as possible.
Life, Arusa Pisuthipan, Published on 12/05/2015
» Sleep disorders are a universal problem. In Thailand, up to 40% of the population are reported to have suffered insomnia at some point, according to the Department of Mental Health. The US Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) considers insufficient sleep a public epidemic with an estimate of 50-70 million American adults falling victim to sleep, or wakefulness, disorder.
Life, Arusa Pisuthipan, Published on 16/06/2015
» Corpses are the most valuable part of Durongrit Sawangnet's job. Every day he tirelessly walks in and out of cold storage rooms looking after dozens of dead bodies awaiting dissection.
Life, Arusa Pisuthipan, Published on 24/11/2015
» Coin-operated water dispensers in urban residential areas like condominiums and housing estates are convenient, but if you think they are clean, then think again.
Life, Arusa Pisuthipan, Published on 29/03/2016
» A growing number of countries around the world such as France, Mexico and Finland have implemented taxing on excessive sugar levels in soft drinks with Britain as the latest one to have announced its plan earlier this month to start the tax in two years' time to cut down childhood obesity.
Life, Arusa Pisuthipan, Published on 17/05/2016
» It was just less than a year ago that worldwide consumers almost jumped out of their skin when the WHO's International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) categorised processed meats such as sausage, ham and bacon as not just unhealthy, but linked to cancer.
Life, Arusa Pisuthipan, Published on 12/07/2016
» A lot of Thais, especially those in journalism, are mourning the death of Poochanok Rakthai, the TNN24 news reporter who died of liver cancer last week. At only 30 years of age, Poochanok was diagnosed in December last year with a 13cm tumour in his liver. The malignancy was found to have been caused by the hepatitis B virus.
Life, Arusa Pisuthipan, Published on 12/12/2017
» An average schoolchild requires 1,600 to 1,850kcal of energy per day. Let's say he eats three grilled pork skewers and a doughnut for breakfast, a pad Thai and a piece of chocolate cake for lunch before wrapping up his day with fried rice and a piece of Hawaiian pizza. All this is almost 2,400kcal. If this boy is a couch potato, he could soon turn himself into one fat kid.
Life, Arusa Pisuthipan, Published on 16/01/2018
» Pol Snr Sgt Maj Prateep Dinsakul woke up one day and suddenly found himself unable to speak. Seeing no warning sign of disease, his family took him to Srithanya psychiatric hospital in Nonthaburi for preliminary evaluation.