• LIFE

  Celebrate Pride Month with these streaming series

  Life, Arusa Pisuthipan, Published on 31/05/2023

  » June is celebrated annually as Pride Month, a celebration and commemoration of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and other forms of sexual diversity.

• LIFE

  Seeking certainty

  Life, Arusa Pisuthipan, Published on 04/03/2020

  » Questions and confusion are spreading now that the novel coronavirus 2019 has wreaked havoc in at least 70 countries. The virus has so far infected over 90,000 people and taken more than 3,100 lives across the globe, according to figures from the Department of Disease Control under the Ministry of Public Health.

• THAILAND

  Minding the measles

  Life, Arusa Pisuthipan, Published on 19/03/2019

  » Measles is now a serious epidemic. Rubeola, the virus responsible for measles, can sicken nine in 10 people who breathe the air that surrounds an infected person for two hours after one coughs. Despite the availability of the measles vaccine, the disease killed around 136,000 people last year, according to the World Health Organization (WHO).

• LIFE

  Hope on the horizon

  Life, Arusa Pisuthipan, Published on 22/05/2018

  » Life can be very complicated for patients falling victim to thalassaemia. First, the inherited blood disorder leads to anaemia so patients require very frequent blood transfusions for the rest of their lives -- an expense of around 10 million baht through the age of 30.

• LIFE

  Home is where the virtual background is

  Life, Arusa Pisuthipan, Published on 28/04/2020

  » Although Thailand is seeing a drop in daily coronavirus infections nationwide, it seems people in provinces where the spread is huge such as Bangkok, Nonthaburi, Chon Buri, Phuket, Samut Prakan, Pattani and Yala are still being asked to hunker down as the lockdown is expected to continue until June.

• LIFE

  Christmas carnival at Paragon

  Life, Arusa Pisuthipan, Published on 18/12/2019

  » 'Tis the season to be jolly, and Siam Paragon joins the festive air with its series of events "The International Carnivals" from now until Dec 31 at Parc Paragon, Siam Paragon.

• LIFE

  Dark horse

  Life, Arusa Pisuthipan, Published on 04/12/2019

  » As a little boy, Weerapat Pitakanonda was mesmerised by the Chinese TV series The Legend Of The Condor Heroes, in which the characters regularly rode elegantly on horseback.

• LIFE

  Loving Vincent at the RCB

  Life, Arusa Pisuthipan, Published on 10/07/2019

  » The Documentary Club together with River City Bangkok is holding a screening of Vincent: The Life And Death Of Vincent Van Gogh this weekend at 2pm and 6pm at RCB Forum, the River City Bangkok on Charoen Krung Road.

• THAILAND

  The time to combat plastic is now

  Life, Arusa Pisuthipan, Published on 02/07/2018

  » It comes as no surprise that Thailand is among five Asian countries -- together with China, Indonesia, Vietnam and the Philippines -- that are responsible for more than half of the 8 million tonnes of plastic waste dumped into the world's oceans every year, according to a 2015 Ocean Conservancy Report. The people of Thailand use over 70 billion plastic bags a year.

• LIFE

  No longer medical sci-fi

  Life, Arusa Pisuthipan, Published on 06/02/2018

  » Imagine a world without cancer, HIV, flu or diabetes. Humans somehow strive for such a utopia but no one can say if it's near, or even possible.

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