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Work(shop) IT!
Guru, Pornchai Sereemongkonpol, Published on 14/03/2014
» Since the ability to wiggle your ears or belch really loud doesn’t count as a skill once you pass the age of nine, you may find yourself without many extracurricular activities to put on your resume. With our selection of interesting workshops in Bangkok, we want to encourage you to attain a new passion to enrich your life, make your CV more outstanding, or simply impress a date with.
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Recapping 2013
Guru, Pornchai Sereemongkonpol, Published on 27/12/2013
» New Year’s is time to look back at what has happened during the year that is about to pass. The media usually takes this opportunity to do a round-up of memorable moments. As an esteemed publication ourselves, we decided to do our very own recapping of 2013 (and because we’re too lazy to go out and find new stories). The year hasn’t been a thoroughly smooth ride but we were certainly never bored. Bye-bye, 2013!
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Productive pursuits
Guru, Pornchai Sereemongkonpol, Published on 07/02/2014
» There are other ways to kill your idle time besides playing FB games or stalking someone on Instagram. We’ve spotted six interesting hobbies in Bangkok that you may not be aware of. Instead of plainly explaining them to you, we present a flowchart to help you figure out which hobby suits you best. Follow the path that most sounds like you, and see your corresponding results in the next pages. Who knows, you may discover a new skill you never knew you had with one of these hobbies.
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Spotlight Bangkok
Guru, Pornchai Sereemongkonpol, Published on 06/09/2013
» Bangkok Governor MR Sukhumbhand Paribatra, aka Khun Chai Moo, will announce the progress of his policies after six months of being in office in early October. Being the concerned and responsible citizens we are, Guru would like to report on the performance of the Bangkok Metropolitan Administration (BMA) so far and analyse their notable policies as well as ask Bangkokians their wishes for this beloved city.
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Home and away
Life, Published on 23/07/2013
» Among the 60,000 football fans packing out Rajamangala National Stadium for a Manchester United football match earlier this month were 36 children with intellectual disabilities.
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Skin Deep?
Guru, Published on 26/07/2013
» In Thailand, the topic of physical beauty - whether yours, ours or a stranger's - has become a huge part of our culture. Like a personal bowel movement, appearance is a casual topic that can be brought up in any conversation. After all, friends and acquaintances comment on weight or skin colour often immediately after a sawasdee.
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A dying breed
Life, L. Bruce Kekulé, Published on 31/07/2013
» Of all the mammals in Thailand, the wild elephant is probably the most important indicator species of a disappearing wilderness. A century ago, there were more than a 100,000 elephants found in the country when 75% of the Kingdom was still covered by forest. Just north and east of Bangkok, these huge mammals thrived in the marshlands and forests near the city.
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A vanishing northern tradition
News, Published on 23/03/2013
» More than just a traditional way of farming is vanishing with the slow but inexorable decline of buffaloes in the North. Not being ones to waste anything, the people of the region are also rueing the loss of certain culinary arts of which the buffalo is an intrinsic part.
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Thai buddhism in the next decade
Life, Phra Paisal Visalo, Published on 07/02/2012
» Ten years ago, some observers were voicing doubts about whether the increasing popularity of meditation retreats among the middle class would just be a passing fad. What we are witnessing today has shown that the meditation retreats are still growing and steadily expanding into all sectors of the middle class.
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Historic canal feels the pressure of modern life
News, Supoj Wancharoen, Published on 31/03/2012
» Almost 500 years ago, a royal command was issued for a canal to be dug through a land plot in front of an area that is currently the Tha Phrachan campus of Thammasat University.
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