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Turns for the better
B Magazine, Normita Thongtham, Published on 11/12/2016
» Unlike the Philippines, which is battered by no less than 24 typhoons a year, Thailand is hardly hit by typhoons. Thais, therefore, did not know what to expect when Typhoon Gay hit the Gulf of Thailand on Nov 3, 1989. With gale-force winds of 120kph, it killed 529 people, including fishermen and offshore oil rig workers, and rendered 160,000 homeless in the southern provinces of Chumphon, Prachuap Khiri Khan, Surat Thani and Nakhon Si Thammarat.
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Plant of plenty
B Magazine, Normita Thongtham, Published on 07/02/2016
» After reading the article about how juice from green papaya leaves could treat dengue fever, and how tea from its dried brown leaves could guard against 10 types of cancer (Green Fingers, Jan 24), a friend told me he had no idea papaya could be so useful.
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Nature’s cure
B Magazine, Normita Thongtham, Published on 24/01/2016
» After more than two months of intensive care at Ramathibodi Hospital, popular actor Tridsadee “Por” Sahawong finally lost his fight against dengue haemorrhagic fever. He died on Monday, just five days short of his 38th birthday.
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The tree of life
B Magazine, Normita Thongtham, Published on 08/11/2015
» I received an invitation to a symposium recently. Well, I thought that was what it was, for the invitation and the programme were in Vietnamese and there were only three words that I understood: Hanoi and Morinda citrifolia.
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A prune with a view
B Magazine, Normita Thongtham, Published on 04/10/2015
» A friend of mine has a roadside tree in front of his house. It had become so dense that he could not see through it from his second-floor window. Last month he had it trimmed.
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Space invaders
B Magazine, Normita Thongtham, Published on 02/08/2015
» What’s in a name? It may not sound funny to you, but I find it amusing how American lawmakers could waste so much time and energy, not to mention taxpayers’ money, deliberating over what to call a fish. Last year, Senator Bill Hoffman of Minnesota was concerned that the name “Asian carp” was “hurtful” and “offensive” to some people so he sought to change the name to “invasive carp”. And guess what, the Minnesota Senate approved the bill.
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Poison in the petals
B Magazine, Normita Thongtham, Published on 31/05/2015
» Alicia Harrison of Royersford, Pennsylvania wrote on her Facebook wall that a biopsy report showed her beloved dog, Goldie, died from the toxin in a plant that she had on her deck. “It is called heliotrope and is highly toxic, causes total liver destruction,” she wrote. “The pathologist said our angel had the worst liver damage he’s ever seen. Goldie would nibble at the leaves of this plant every so often and we had no clue it was toxic. Please share with any dog owners you know to hopefully prevent their dog from becoming a statistic like Goldie.
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The bugs that make a meal of the garden
B Magazine, Normita Thongtham, Published on 30/11/2014
» Reader Margaret McMillion sent me a picture of a pest which she said had been periodically attacking plants in her Bangkok garden. “It is most prevalent at the end of the rainy season, but it can appear at almost any time,” she wrote.
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Tree foundations vs building foundations
B Magazine, Normita Thongtham, Published on 18/05/2014
» Trees around the house make the surroundings cool and lessen the air-conditioning bill. They provide privacy and screen the house from the heat of the sun and dust. However, trees grow big, and planted too close to a house or building, they can cause problems in the long run. A big branch of a large tabebuia tree behind my brother-in-law’s house once broke in strong winds and landed in a neighbour’s garden. It missed her roof by a couple of metres and, luckily, it did not hit someone.
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When your garden goes squirrelly
B Magazine, Normita Thongtham, Published on 02/03/2014
» In urban gardens, the occasional squirrel or two feeding on the fruit of trees can be a welcome sight. When my children were growing up, my son would not let me pick ripe fruit from a papaya tree that was within reach of his bedroom window so that squirrels would come to feed on them. “We can buy fruit, the squirrels cannot,” he said. Now we have star fruit trees, and the ground under them is littered by young fruit which have fallen after squirrels have eaten their tender seeds. During the mango season, the fluffy-tailed rodents jump to neighbouring trees to merrily nibble at my neighbour’s ripening mangoes, or jackfruit on another neighbour’s tree.
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