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Double Vision
Guru, Published on 06/01/2012
» Life in Bangkok is exactly like the adverts. Our wonderful society is a perfect utopia, without any unsavoury characters. The people are smiley, polite and helpful, and the food is healthy and delicious.
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The Land of Scams
Guru, Published on 20/01/2012
» Let's face it, the world is at a lowpoint and definitely going to end soon. It's 2012, and all the actors have been replaced by clones while the music charts are full of attention-seeking kids with ADHD. So it's no wonder that morality is plummeting to darker depths than Donald Trump on a bad hair day.
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'Top' happily no longer in poll position
B Magazine, Saritdet Marukatat, Published on 05/02/2012
» If Varawut "Top" Silpa-archa could have just one wish, this is what it would be: "I'd really want to give all the judges a kiss on the cheek." He's referring to justices from the Constitution Court who on Dec 2, 2008, disbanded his Chart Thai Party and banned its executives, Top included, from politics for five years.
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Dan Dances to a Romantic ‘Melody’
B Magazine, Published on 12/02/2012
» 'I feel like I fill my life with crap,'' Worrawech ''Dan'' Danuwong says. It's an odd statement coming from a guy who at only 27 years of age has played numerous roles including being an entrepreneur, singer, songwriter, producer, actor, short film and
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Delving into the past
Life, Anchalee Kongrut, Published on 16/02/2012
» Bhawan Ruangsilp, a history lecturer at Chulalongkorn University's Faculty of Arts, finds the past intriguing. But her fascination is not limited only to Thai history. The 40-year-old historian is an expert in the history of Asian and European relations. She graduated with a bachelor's degree from Chulalongkorn's Faculty of Arts, with a major in German language and minor in history, and pursued her graduate studies, majoring in German history, at Tubingen University in Germany. She later received a doctorate degree from Leiden University in the Netherlands for her study of the Dutch East India Company (Verenigde Oostindische Compagnie _ VOC), which conducted brisk trade in the Court of Ayutthaya during 1604-1765. Her research offers new perspectives of the Kingdom of Siam through different evidence.
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Where there's smoke...
Guru, Published on 17/02/2012
» Red shirt co-leader Jatuporn Prompan unsettled a few Bangkokians with his recent tirade in which he claimed that the Red Army must take to the streets once again because his inside sources at US Intelligence HQ told him there's going to be a coup to overthrow the beloved sister of Mr Thaksin "The Outlaw" Shinawatra in April.
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Call of the riled
B Magazine, Andrew Biggs, Published on 25/03/2012
» I did it. I broke through my personal best. It's taken me four months but I did it.
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Amazing Biodiversity in jeopardy
Life, L. Bruce Kekulé, Published on 26/03/2012
» On Dec 8, 1941, the same day of the Pearl Harbor attack in Hawaii (Dec 7 in the US), the Japanese Imperial Army invaded Thailand with thousands of troops and settled in. Sometime in 1942, a decision was made to build a railway from Bangkok to Burma and beyond through the thick malaria- and tiger-infested jungles in Kanchanaburi province using Allied and Asian prisoners of war as construction labour.
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Making his influence Count
Life, Yvonne Bohwongprasert, Published on 16/04/2012
» As a billionaire with a European title of nobility, Count Gerald van der Straten Ponthoz has the world at his feet. Having traversed the globe for years, a handful of coincidences brought the Belgian to Thailand a decade ago. Little did he know back then that moving to the Land of Smiles would be the start of a string of projects which he would help spearhead to equip tribal folk in the North with the educational know-how to a promising career path of their choice.
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Breadmakers' recipe for success won't go stale
B Magazine, Suthon Sukphisit, Published on 22/04/2012
» Thailand's cuisine boasts hundreds of delicious dishes, but most lose much of their appeal if there is no rice to go along with them. Similarly, most Western meals fall short of perfection if there is no bread on the table.
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