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  • News & article

    Root for city workers

    Oped, Postbag, Published on 03/02/2024

    » Re: "High-perched garbos killed as truck enters underpass", (BP, Jan 24).

  • News & article

    Child restraint rule a work in progress

    News, Post Reporters, Published on 10/05/2022

    » Mandatory safety restraints for children under six years old in moving vehicles may not be enforced until December pending the furnishing of vital regulatory details, according to the police.

  • News & article

    Covid lessons for cholera handling

    Oped, Published on 04/05/2022

    » Since Covid-19 engulfed the world two years ago, "unprecedented" has become something of a buzzword. But while the coronavirus has posed unique challenges at a time of deep global interconnectedness, pandemics are nothing new. The Covid-19 pandemic is not even the only one we are currently experiencing. In much of the developing world, cholera outbreaks are proliferating.

  • News & article

    Watch what you eat

    Life, Arusa Pisuthipan, Published on 22/02/2022

    » Earlier this month, children in various provinces across Thailand including Chiang Mai, Phetchaburi, Saraburi, Trang and Kanchanaburi suddenly developed acute conditions, including breathing difficulty, paleness, fatigue and eventually methemoglobin -- a dysfunctional form of haemoglobin that is incapable of transporting oxygen -- after eating unbranded sausages.

  • News & article

    Sandbox saga

    News, Postbag, Published on 13/07/2021

    » Re: "Two more visitors test positive for virus in Phuket", (BP, July 12).

  • News & article

    Mass jab hopes a crucial test for Prayut

    News, Veera Prateepchaikul, Published on 31/05/2021

    » Despite reassurances from Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha and Public Health Minister Anutin Charnvirakul that the mass Covid-19 vaccinations for people over 60 and those suffering from seven non-communicable underlying diseases across the country will proceed as scheduled on June 7, scepticism remains strong among many about whether this administration can still be trusted after repeated blunders in the handling of the pandemic.

  • News & article

    Healthy outlook

    Asia focus, Paritta Wangkiat, Published on 11/01/2021

    » 2005 was a turning point, and also a heartbreaking year for Mihai Irimescu. When his mother passed away after years of battling cancer, he began to approach life with a new sense of purpose. One result was a decision to switch his career focus from telecoms and information technology to healthcare.

  • News & article

    A year like no other

    Asia focus, Published on 28/12/2020

    » In a world under siege from a relentless virus, Asia's resilience was tested to the utmost. Asia Focus staff look back at key events

  • News & article

    2020: The year virtual concerts took off

    Life, Tatat Bunnag, Published on 22/12/2020

    » International concerts were absent for much of 2020 as every tour and festival was postponed or cancelled due to the pandemic. While there was not much to look forward to, one ray of hope we had amid the absence of live music was to see the number of artists around the globe covering all genres turning to the virtual world as a new medium to engage with their music fans. They took to social media live-streaming to give fans a much-needed virtual music fix and while the novelty of DIY online concerts filmed in artist's living rooms and home studios via Facebook, Instagram, or YouTube wore off after a few days in quarantine, many musicians and music labels quickly became even more creative in lockdown and evolved a whole raft of innovative and all-round entertaining virtual concerts bringing the new experience of live music into people's homes.

  • News & article

    From top down, are we broken beyond repair?

    News, Published on 29/09/2020

    » In this country, there is a section of a road in the middle of the capital Bangkok that was named "the 100-deaths curve'' because of the frequent deadly accidents there.

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