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  Change-makers

  Guru, Pornchai Sereemongkonpol, Published on 25/04/2014

  » Recently the BTS launched a campaign to encourage Thais to start using escalators properly. Y’know, walk on the left side or stay on the right if you want to stand still. While we’re at it, we think they should discourage people from hugging the centre poles between their buttocks unless they’re strippers (go to fb.com/ohmysat to see what we’re talking about).

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  Looking to Hong Kong

  News, Published on 15/02/2014

  » Building urban railways is a costly exercise although it does not always have to burn a hole through the developer’s pocket.

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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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  Social fabric

  Life, Published on 04/07/2013

  » We open the doors to sweet symphonic music, which sets our mood for the guided tour of the exhibition. On entering the new section of Queen Sirikit Museum of Textiles (QSMT) _ the main space has been open to the public since May last year as a learning centre about textiles _ we had to pinch ourselves that we hadn't walked into the Mad Hatter's tea party.

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  The unbreakable brotherhood

  Life, Arusa Pisuthipan, Published on 25/06/2013

  » The clock said it was nearly evening prayer time for Chiang Mai's At-Taqwa community. Women rushed home while men of all ages gathered at the mosque. The sun was going down yet everybody's spirit was uplifted as they paid respect to Allah.

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  The man who sold the world

  Life, Yanapon Musiket, Published on 30/05/2013

  » Everybody deserves an escape, and my recent annual leave took me to London, a city where men know how to wear a suit with style. It is also the city of David Bowie _ the man whose persona seems to tease and provoke the boundaries of gender and whose five-decade career is one of the most spectacular in the music industry.

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  In search of a king

  Life, Sirinya Wattanasukchai, Published on 25/03/2013

  » It was late afternoon on a hot day in Myanmar. A group of Thai archaeologist at an excavation site in Linzingong cemetery in Mandalay were about to wrap up their work when one of them emerged with a lotus-shaped artefact.

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  A rewarding spot

  Muse, Published on 16/03/2013

  » [WHAT] Le Tour d'Angkhang for Spot Reward lucky members

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  Old village show gets a modern lift

  News, Nopparat Kingkaew, Published on 26/01/2013

  » Jariang Baroen is still a feast for the eyes and ears for the older generation but time and modernity have caught up with it.

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  Past grandeur lives on

  Life, Published on 25/01/2012

  » Imagine yourself on a rice barge or steamboat chugging along the River of Kings, intermittently stopping off at the homes of a prince, a nobleman and a merchant, with the glistening spires of the Grand Palace and Wat Arun providing the backdrop for a fascinating journey back to old Siam. On Saturday, the much anticipated annual home and garden fundraising event organised by the Soroptimist International Club of Dusit is set to take guests on such a journey. The tour will offer a rare opportunity to experience the past grandeur of the rarely visited Chakrabongse Villa, the home of Prince Chakrabongse, son of Rama V; the Praya Palazzo, originally a riverside home of a nobleman at the court of Siam; plus the Chinese courtyard home of the Wanglee family _ all steeped in history and evocative of old Siam.

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