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  • LIFE

    A grisly end

    Life, Anchalee Kongrut, Published on 10/07/2013

    » Phuc Tho, a farming village west of Hanoi, has had its heyday. Busloads of Korean tourists used to visit the bear farms in the area, but they didn't come simply to watch and take photos with the fluffy mammals.

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    Clearing the way

    Life, Anchalee Kongrut, Published on 16/10/2013

    » Forest areas in Thailand have been shrinking at an alarming rate. Between 1973 and 2009, 30.9 million rai of land was cleared of trees, according to a study by Khwanchai Duangsathaporn, assistant professor at the Department of Forest Management, Faculty of Forestry at Kasetsart University.

  • LIFE

    A night on the toon

    Anchalee Kongrut, Published on 06/01/2014

    » It's not often that entertainment comes as cheaply as one baht.

  • LIFE

    The wordy wife

    Life, Anchalee Kongrut, Published on 19/05/2014

    » If you know the name “Sidaoruang”, you might already be reaching middle age. If you are younger or non-Thai, knowing the name probably means you are passionate about local literature, especially Wannakam Puea Chevit (Literature For Life), a genre of Thai books conceived in the 1970s that addresses the plight of farmers, social injustice and class struggle in Thai society.

  • LIFE

    Environment for disaster

    Life, Anchalee Kongrut, Published on 15/12/2014

    » The year 2014 hasn't been entirely memorable — in a good way, at least — when considering the progress of environmental campaigns.

  • LIFE

    Encroaching on villagers' rights

    Life, Anchalee Kongrut, Published on 07/01/2015

    » As a New Year's gift, the National Council for Peace and Order (NCPO) has promised to return happiness to the people by giving 53,000 rai of state land to landless villagers. On paper, it looks like a generous present.

  • LIFE

    Taming human behaviour

    Life, Anchalee Kongrut, Published on 14/01/2015

    » Two recent cases of wild elephants charging at tourists’ vehicles in Khao Yai National Park may have many people thinking twice about visiting the area.

  • LIFE

    Going walkabout

    Life, Anchalee Kongrut, Published on 04/03/2015

    » Despite poor footpaths and humid weather, Bangkokians walk more than is believed, according to an academic study that focuses on the "walkability scores" of the capital. 

  • LIFE

    Reading landscapes

    Muse, Anchalee Kongrut, Published on 04/07/2015

    » Every designer, regardless of his or her fame and profile, will usually have a design project that raises eyebrows and defies the norm. For Kotchakorn Voraakhom, a 33-year-old landscape architect, it was her idea to paint more colours in a humdrum swimming pool that did just that. This was a facility for blind students at the Foundation for the Blind in Thailand under The Royal Patronage of Her Majesty Queen Sirikit in the Phaya Thai area of Bangkok. Her idea took people aback and dropped many jaws.

  • LIFE

    Sustaining environmental activism

    Life, Anchalee Kongrut, Published on 21/10/2015

    » The demography of environmental activists in Thailand has shifted. The pioneering generation, those inspired by the life and death of the late Sueb Nakhasathien, the forest official who committed suicide in what is believed to be a protest against bureaucratic hopelessness, have started retiring, or feel too tired and have moved into other fields.

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