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Run for your life -- every step counts
News, Anchalee Kongrut, Published on 23/11/2017
» My topic this week is running. No, I am not going to write about rocker Toon Bodyslam and his "Forrest Gump" long-distance running campaign. But please don't run away from this column just yet.
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Is Asean ready to adapt?
Asia focus, Anchalee Kongrut, Published on 21/08/2017
» Southeast Asian countries could face intense impacts from climate change that would limit the potential of the Asean Economic Community (AEC), where agriculture still accounts for more than 10% of gross domestic product.
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World on the move
Asia focus, Anchalee Kongrut, Published on 26/06/2017
» It is not an overstatement to say that the world is no longer a safe and peaceful place. News of terrorist attacks has become a sad fact of daily life, most recently in London and Paris again this month.
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Drought, fishing scandals and winding roads
Life, Anchalee Kongrut, Published on 23/12/2015
» In the past year, environmental disasters once again proved how much of an impact they have on everyone's lives: the air we breathe (the haze in the South, blown over from Indonesia); the water we use (the contentious Chao Phraya roads); the lights we see (the coal-fired power plants); the ground beneath our feet (the gold mining scandals); the food we eat (the fishery disputes). In all of this, local communities and the rural poor feel the heat and the fire more than Bangkok's urbanites and they're the people who keep showing public resistance against environmental problems and the depletion of natural resources, despite the grip of military rule.
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Turning over a new leaf
Life, Anchalee Kongrut, Published on 20/11/2015
» Among the community of music lovers in Chiang Mai, the name Pharadon "Por" Phonamnuai is associated with North Gate Jazz, a popular haunt and favourite hangout for local musicians on Si Phum Road. The lanky 34-year-old saxophonist is also known for his Loem Tai Pord (Wind Beneath My Breath) travelogue based on his hitchhiking adventure from Chiang Mai to Paris with just 20,000 baht and a saxophone.
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Bringing climate change policy into the 21st century
News, Anchalee Kongrut, Published on 07/08/2015
» Paris will heat up in the winter month of December when delegates from 190 nations gather for a key climate change meeting, better known as Cop 21 (abbreviation of the 21st yearly session of the Conference of Parties).
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Revolution in a cuppa
Life, Anchalee Kongrut, Published on 21/08/2015
» What sort of an image comes up in your mind when you hear the words "high tea"? Is it a Victorian style pinkie-up tea-sipping ritual; or an image of a cuppa served with petite fours -- cucumber sandwiches, scones, clotted cream and jams.
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Asia 'must unite in climate fight'
News, Anchalee Kongrut, Published on 20/08/2015
» Asian countries need to work as one in the fight against climate change because the region will bear the biggest consequences from rising temperatures, a UN official warned yesterday.
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Je suis Nattanan
Life, Anchalee Kongrut, Published on 16/01/2015
» No, I’m not trying to drag you into a debate about free speech, the celebrated value that underlines the “Je suis Charlie” movement, which erupted as a tribute to the cartoonists and editorial staff of Charlie Hebdo, who were massacred by three gunmen in Paris on Jan 7. A huge number of people around the world have shown their support by becoming “Charlie”. Hollywood stars such George Clooney and his wife are Charlie. Many of my friends, but not all, are Charlie, too. At the same time, “Je ne suis pas Charlie” has sprung up here and there as well. I believe Charlies and non-Charlies can have lively debates — or get drunk together — because both groups are alike in condemning the use of violence.
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Censorship can be a total bore
Life, Anchalee Kongrut, Published on 12/10/2012
» At last, I watched a movie in China.
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