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For me, mass killer will never have a name
News, Anchalee Kongrut, Published on 13/02/2020
» Looking at him, you would think he was harmless. The guy next door who always had a smile on his face and was always ready to help.
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The fear of becoming a banana state
News, Anchalee Kongrut, Published on 15/08/2016
» 'The company changed the pattern of the rains, accelerated the cycle of harvests and moved the river from where it had always been." This vivid line is from the book <i>One Hundred Years of Solitude</i>, a magnum opus written by Gabriel Garcia Marquez, a Nobel Prize-winning writer.
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Real life can't really mimic the movies
News, Anchalee Kongrut, Published on 23/05/2016
» In the final scene of the Oscar-winning road movie, Thelma & Louise, the two desperate housewives and fugitives look at one another and hold hands. "Let us keep going." "What do you mean?" "Go!" "You sure?" Then, they hit the gas of the 1966 Ford Thunderbird convertible classic and fly off the cliff.
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Only compassion can douse the fires
News, Anchalee Kongrut, Published on 11/05/2019
» The bushfires that have ravaged parts of northern Thailand this year have been unusually fierce.
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Smoggy North: Not only capital suffers
News, Anchalee Kongrut, Published on 30/03/2019
» A friend of mine in Chiang Mai recently lamented the double standards regarding the way in which the government and society has responded to the haze problem in the North.
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Bangkok faces its very own 'airpocalypse'
News, Anchalee Kongrut, Published on 02/02/2019
» City schools have been closed. Soldiers have been deployed to check and shut down factories that pollute the air we breathe (but we never find out which factories have been closed!) And our prime minister is acting tough in a desperate bid to combat the PM2.5 haze-causing particles.
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No silver lining on smog clouds, yet
News, Anchalee Kongrut, Published on 18/01/2019
» As a Bangkok resident, I have also been badly affected this week by the hazardous smog. As such, the first thing I do each morning now is check the Air4Thai app on my phone.
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Cash crop policy a recipe for floods
News, Anchalee Kongrut, Published on 24/08/2018
» Like several cities in Thailand, Nan, an increasingly popular tourist town in the northern region, has been devastated by floods since July.
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Lacking the grit to take up Sombath case
News, Anchalee Kongrut, Published on 14/12/2017
» The year-end period is supposed to be the time for celebrations with loved ones. But for Ng Shui Meng, wife of the missing rural community developer in Laos, Sombath Somphone, this time of year is traumatic.
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Public enemy No.1: Extreme poverty
News, Anchalee Kongrut, Published on 29/12/2017
» When I look back through 2017, "Thailand 4.0" seems to be the most frequently used buzzword of the government this year. We have repeatedly heard and seen authorities' attempts to "digitalise" the economy and various services.
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