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Snapping up the bad guys
Life, Melalin Mahavongtrakul, Published on 18/07/2017
» In deep jungle, a forest ranger in his black uniform slowly climbed up a tree. With trained, quick hands, he strapped a camouflage case to a high branch that could oversee an area underneath it at a wide angle. Inside the case was a camera trap that can monitor the movement of animals, and especially humans who may enter the forest illegally.
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In the mind's eye
Life, Melalin Mahavongtrakul, Published on 28/07/2015
» On a black Velcro board, a pair of small hands gently glided along its slightly thorny surface. In her right hand, a girl held a plastic "tool" that mimics a large pencil. When she dragged it along the Velcro surface, a thread of yarn came out from its tip — sticking on the board and forming into different shapes. Her fingers carefully felt each line that she drew.
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Shortening the supply chain
Life, Melalin Mahavongtrakul, Published on 13/10/2014
» Following the government's decision to make long-awaited rice payments to some of the farmers affected by the previous administration's failed rice-pledging scheme, the topic of the domestic rice market has once again become a hot-topic.
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Something in the water
Life, Melalin Mahavongtrakul, Published on 04/03/2019
» Rows of small glass containers fill multiple shelves along the wall. Inside them, swimming leisurely and living separately in their tiny, private space are colourful Siamese fighting fish, popular among various crowds. Some keep them as pets for their pure eye-candy pleasure, or get them on a fish spar to make quick cash, or selectively breed them for commercial purposes.
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The way she moves
Life, Melalin Mahavongtrakul, Published on 22/09/2017
» What's life like as the most in-demand luk thung star of the moment? After an unexpected catapult to national fame following PM Prayut Chan-o-cha's comment on her twerking, after a frenzy of media coverage sensationalising her stage name and persona, and after becoming an accidental symbol of youth and freedom, 19-year-old Lamyai Haithongkham has only one simple wish: more time to sleep.
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Pleasure at the fairground
Life, Melalin Mahavongtrakul, Published on 24/11/2015
» Forget hazardous flying lanterns of the North. This Loy Krathong Festival, make your way to the old-school ngan wat, or temple fair, and while many temples around the country have put up fairgrounds to celebrate the Full Moon night of the 12th lunar month, none can beat Bangkok's oldest and most legendary ngan wat Phu Khao Thong.
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United in grief
Life, Melalin Mahavongtrakul, Published on 01/11/2016
» Kand Pukrod, 63, a construction worker from Yala province, was sitting on plastic sheets that served as his makeshift mattress on the hard ground. It was drizzling throughout the evening, and Kand decided to settle down under one of the big white marquees.
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Beyond the bullets and bombs
Life, Melalin Mahavongtrakul, Published on 27/09/2016
» The morning breeze was cool on our faces as we cruised past a gleaming mosque. Traffic was light and the town was quiet and peaceful, except around the fresh market occupied by women in hijab. Local shops selling bak kut teh and dim sum were opening their doors. It was a typical, lazy Sunday morning in Yala -- known to the rest of Thailand as the land of insurgency and unrest.
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Earn your stripes
Life, Melalin Mahavongtrakul, Published on 10/03/2016
» After making rounds all over the world, the papier-mâché troupe of 1,600 pandas have finally arrived in our city. Many Bangkokians are now stalking the cute flash mob, an art project to raise awareness for animal conservation, to make sure they get a selfie or two before the pandas migrate elsewhere. (They were at Sanam Luang last week and CentralWorld earlier this week.)
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