• THAILAND

  House speaker row hurts coalition unity

  News, Published on 02/07/2023

  » Academics and politicians believe the battle for the House speaker position between the Pheu Thai Party and the Move Forward Party (MFP) will undermine unity among the eight parties seeking to form a coalition government.

• THAILAND

  Revving up for danger

  News, Published on 14/07/2019

  » The crash involving a big bike that was driven by a 13-year-old boy and injured two people in Chiang Mai last weekend has set alarm bells ringing about the dangers of powerful motorcycles on public roads, particularly of those in the hands of careless riders.

• THAILAND

  The cops who opt to die

  News, Wassayos Ngamkham, Published on 08/12/2019

  » Police officers are perceived as guardians who protect life. They are projected as tough guys with guns who catch criminals and make communities safe. Yet shocking statistics of their suicide in Thailand show our guardians can be vulnerable and need help too.

• THAILAND

  Myanmar entrepreneur buys unused bicycles for poor children

  Published on 05/06/2019

  » SINGAPORE: When bicycle-sharing company oBike pulled out of Singapore abruptly last year, leaving the city with unattended bicycles rusting away in parks and public spaces, Myanmar entrepreneur Mike Than Tun Win saw the perfect opportunity to turn trash into treasure.

• THAILAND

  Korean dream jobs sour

  News, Published on 02/09/2018

  » An ex-worker in South Korea is telling Thai people to think twice if they want to be called "phi noi", or little ghost, by working illegally and risking arrest there in exchange for high wages.

• THAILAND

  US bikers divided over Trump's war with Harley-Davidson

  New York Times, Published on 13/08/2018

  » STURGIS, South Dakota: Gary Rathbun rumbled into town to attend the United States' pre-eminent gathering of motorcycle enthusiasts atop his Harley-Davidson, a 2009 Ultra Classic that brought him 800 miles from Idaho. It is the 40th Harley he has owned. It will also likely be his last.

• THAILAND

  Carnage: An analysis of Thailand's road safety

  Spectrum, Published on 03/06/2018

  » Every 22 minutes, a human being dies on Thailand's roads. At 24,000 deaths a year -- the equivalent of a small city -- traffic ends more lives prematurely in this country than strokes, Aids, any single kind of cancer, pneumonia, or diabetes.

• THAILAND

  Stuck in the slow lane to stress

  Spectrum, Paritta Wangkiat, Published on 04/09/2016

  » A taxi cuts across the lane ahead. A six-wheel truck loaded with sand bursts onto the main road. Motorbikes weave alongside. Another taxi cuts across the lane. Someone honks a horn. Every car is rushing to pass an intersection. When the traffic lights switch to red, the chaos eases for a few, brief minutes. Heat haze shimmers near the exhaust pipes of vehicles.

• THAILAND

  Ageing China, Europe search for more children

  New York Times, Published on 11/11/2015

  » China's decision to allow more families to have a second child is an effort to confront a problem that is facing much of Europe, too - ageing populations and not enough babies. But reversing a demographic slide involves a complicated set of incentives that have more to do with social mores than with government policies, experts say.

• THAILAND

  Off-road and out of control

  Spectrum, Published on 30/08/2015

  » A fleeting silence fell over the thick jungle, an ominously calm presage to the horror about to unfold. Seconds earlier, the sound of a revving engine had elicited excited cheers from the carload of tourists making their way up the precipitous mountain trail.

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