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High water mark
Business, Nareerat Wiriyapong, Published on 27/07/2012
» Jumpa Aonprae from Ayutthaya's Ban Khlong Sai village cannot wait any longer to return home after having been homeless for nearly eight months.
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Clearing the water
Business, Nareerat Wiriyapong, Published on 09/05/2013
» About 80 households of the Chook Don community in Kanchanaburi's Muang district suffered from polluted water as rubbish was dumped in the nearby Mae Klong River. Situated just one kilometre from the main city, Chook Don used to be listed as a "red zone" community due to drug trafficking.
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Take a load off
Business, Nareerat Wiriyapong, Published on 10/06/2013
» Driving along the Mittraphap Highway from Bangkok to the Northeast during a long public holiday can be tiresome for most motorists, given the traffic. The hilly road encourages some drivers to speed, which can result in accidents.
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Social success stories
Asia focus, Nareerat Wiriyapong, Published on 12/12/2016
» Despite limited government support and funding, an increasing number of women in the Greater Mekong Subregion (GMS) have embraced the concept of social entrepreneurship (SE), saying they want to do good things for the community while also running their own businesses.
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Doing well by doing good
Asia focus, Nareerat Wiriyapong, Published on 12/12/2016
» After working in the finance field for about a decade, Sasibai Kimis quit her job and on Valentines' Day in 2013 she founded Earth Heir Partners as an enterprise that would not only make money but also would do something good for society.
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The world on his plate
Asia focus, Nareerat Wiriyapong, Published on 05/06/2017
» At the age of 71, Adirek Sripratak shows no signs of slowing down. The former president and CEO of Charoen Pokphand Foods Plc (CPF) officially became chairman in March, but he is still travelling far and wide in search of new markets and merger and acquisition (M&A) opportunities for one of the world's leading protein food companies.
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At home in Asean
Asia focus, Nareerat Wiriyapong, Published on 05/02/2018
» The first thing that impressed me about Hideaki Iwasaki, country director for the Thailand Resident Mission of the Asian Development Bank (ADB), was his fluent English. I assumed it was the result of his educational background.
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Road to recovery
Asia focus, Nareerat Wiriyapong, Published on 20/08/2018
» Plastics offer many advances that improve everyday life -- from packaging that helps reduce food waste to life-saving innovations in the medical field. At the same time, plastics are seen as a key contributor to a global environmental catastrophe because not all plastic waste ends up where it should.
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Virtuous circle
Asia focus, Nareerat Wiriyapong, Published on 20/08/2018
» The ever-growing population coupled with lifestyle shifts have put our planet at risk as natural resources dwindle. Meanwhile, wasteful production and consumption behaviours have resulted in growing pollution and other environmental challenges.
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Empowering a region
Asia focus, Nareerat Wiriyapong, Published on 21/01/2019
» Ask Armida Salsiah Alisjahbana, the new executive secretary of the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (Escap), what she misses the most about her Indonesian homeland and the answer is her garden.
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