• LIFE

  Sustainability, taking flight

  Life, Anchalee Kongrut, Published on 11/11/2015

  » At first glance, with its steel scaffolding the newly opened Schiphol-Noord bus station looks like any other unremarkable building. And in terms of European architectural design, the station locally known as Knooppunt Schiphol-Noord pales in comparison to flashier terminals such as the orange, whale jaw-shaped bus station at Hoofddrop's Spaarne Hospital in the Netherlands, or Poole Bus Station in the UK, with its giant mural.

• THAILAND

  From Pattani seas to Bangkok plates

  News, Anchalee Kongrut, Published on 02/09/2019

  » Pattani, one of three restive southernmost provinces, invokes images of violence instigated by insurgency.

• BUSINESS

  The meat of the matter

  Business, Anchalee Kongrut, Published on 19/06/2019

  » In order to become the beef hub of the world and secure the premium market, Australia, one of the world's leading beef exporters, has set an ambitious goal to become the global leader in carbon-neutral red meat.

• BUSINESS

  Pride of Place

  Asia focus, Anchalee Kongrut, Published on 12/06/2017

  » At first glance, exotic names such as Champagne, Roquefort cheese or pricey Cambodian Kampot pepper may seem like little more than catchy branding to attract epicures who associate fine dining with products that have unique origins.

• BUSINESS

  Greening the palm oil supply chain

  Asia focus, Anchalee Kongrut, Published on 08/05/2017

  » 2016 will be remembered as the year of clear blue skies and clean air in the southern peninsula of Southeast Asia. For the first time in nearly two decades, choking haze from fires set to clear land for oil palm plantations was reduced significantly, in keeping with a promise made by Indonesian President Joko Widodo.

• LIFE

  Coursing through a town's veins

  Life, Anchalee Kongrut, Published on 23/01/2017

  » Narong Tiammek, former deputy dean of Muban Chombueng Rajabhat University, should have felt like he was walking (or jogging) on a cloud. The Chombueng Marathon, a local running event that he created 32 years ago, has become a phenomenal success. The number of registered runners steadily climbed up from less than 100 runners in the first year to 13,040 this year, around 5,500 more than in 2016.

• SPORTS

  A run with heart

  Life, Anchalee Kongrut, Published on 24/08/2016

  » The Chombueng Marathon is like a Woodstock for runners. Each year, more than 10,000 visitors vie for a spot in this hugely popular marathon in a small town in Ratchaburi province. The next race will be on Jan 15 next year, with online applications starting on Sept 1 -- expect an internet gridlock since the demand for a place at this event always exceeds the capacity of the organiser. Thus the announcement of registered runners will be done via a random selection process to be announced on Sept 9.

• LIFE

  A cuppa sustainability

  Life, Anchalee Kongrut, Published on 25/05/2016

  » For the urban cool, coffee has somehow become a form of luxurious indulgence -- not just a tonic to wake you up in the morning, or a kick to keep your eyes wide open in the yawning afternoon. But for Theerasit Amornsaensuk, managing director of Green Net SE, coffee drinking has a higher function still -- that of protecting forested mountains, while coffee-growing can provide a means for local villagers to coexist with their environment.

• TECH

  At our fished ends

  Life, Anchalee Kongrut, Published on 23/09/2015

  » With 2,600km of coastline, Thailand has always been blessed by its vast supply of seafood. But when it comes to knowledge about the supposed abundance of our sea, most of us are clueless.

• LIFE

  Through the haze

  Life, Anchalee Kongrut, Published on 30/09/2015

  » For almost two months, Southeast Asian countries including Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore and some parts of southernmost Thailand are affected by haze -- the result of forest clearance for palm oil plantations in Indonesia, the world's top palm oil producer. Since palm oil production has become a major business in this region in the past two decades -- in Malaysia and Thailand as well -- haze has become a growing problem.

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