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Empowering the next generation of digital defenders
Life, Sirinya Wattanasukchai, Published on 16/04/2024
» Once the challenge was decoded, young participants in the room made their way to an adjacent building. Some dashed without a clear direction, while others looked at their devices searching for a clue about the next challenge. Attached discreetly to a corner of the building, this clue held the key to their next endeavour.
Breaking the cycle
Life, Sirinya Wattanasukchai, Published on 19/03/2024
» 'Our mission is to break the cycle of despair," says Chanya Suebpetch, one of the members of a team of social workers at Siriraj Hospital in Bangkok. The 37-year-old works in the Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Department of Pediatrics. Chanya's work is therefore focused strongly on supporting vulnerable children.
Caring for the young and homeless during Covid-19
Life, Sirinya Wattanasukchai, Published on 12/07/2021
» 'I'm afraid I'll get infected living on the streets," said Vee (not her real name), cautiously removing her face mask to eat lunch at the Hub Saidek, a refuge for Bangkok's vulnerable children.
Vulnerable and struggling
Life, Sirinya Wattanasukchai, Published on 20/05/2020
» Suthat Namgasa is relieved to discover he still has one packet of instant noodles in his relief bag. He will eat tonight, but he has no idea how he will find the money to pay the next instalment on his taxi.
Ringing up high costs
Life, Sirinya Wattanasukchai, Published on 25/03/2014
» When Jandee Pattani was told that her 1.3 million baht phone bill wasn’t a technical error, she was so shocked her hands began to feel weak.
A rotten deal
Life, Sirinya Wattanasukchai, Published on 04/03/2014
» When picking up a ready-to-consume food or beverage product, what do you look at first — the price tag, brand, flavour, package or expiry date? If you look at just one — or don’t look at all — you should think twice.
The takidashi concept
Life, Sirinya Wattanasukchai, Published on 06/11/2013
» A man pours liquid fat over chunks of chicken through a wire strainer and his cooking station roars when the fat meets the crackling hot flames. Nearby a man is busy making waffles, and a woman cooks kaphrao gai.
Rebuilding Trust
Life, Sirinya Wattanasukchai, Published on 20/09/2013
» Methyl bromide, formalin, growth hormones, preservatives, insecticides, ammonia, or pink slime. What else is included but unidentified in our meals?
Breast intentions
Muse, Sirinya Wattanasukchai, Published on 03/08/2013
» When Panudda Sothanapaisal was told her pre-term baby could only be saved by her own breast milk, the young mother didn't hesitate to put every effort into pumping despite a limited supply. Her baby was six weeks premature, isolated in the intensive care unit, on oxygen support and needed every help.
Out with the old
Life, Sirinya Wattanasukchai, Published on 26/12/2012
» This year was a tough one for conservationists who have been vehemently fighting to preserve national heritage under threat in the name of "development".