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School is in session
Life, Karnjana Karnjanatawe, Published on 27/09/2018
» We walked on a narrow path in a large herbal garden belonging to Samai Koonsuk, 57, chairman of the Ban Dong Bang Organic Herbal Community Enterprise in Muang district in Prachin Buri. I felt like we were ducklings following a mother duck. Instead of making "quack, quack" sounds, we asked questions like "What is this leaf?", "What is that flower?", "Can we eat it raw?" while pointing at various plants.
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Ripe picking
Life, Karnjana Karnjanatawe, Published on 29/06/2017
» The annual fruit buffet season in Thailand is in the middle of the year. It is a time when visits to orchards, where an abundance of fruit can be plucked from trees, celebrate the summer.
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Common threads
Life, Karnjana Karnjanatawe, Published on 21/09/2017
» The silk woven cloth village of Ban Sanuan Nok plants the most mulberry trees in Huai Rat district, Buri Ram. The fresh leaves are the food of silkworms and of the people who use them to enhance their cuisine, and a few of the leaves are even bigger than the size of an adult's hand.
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Nuts about cherry blossoms
Life, Karnjana Karnjanatawe, Published on 07/01/2016
» Wild Himalayan cherry trees, known in Thai as phya suea khrong, shed leaves during the cool season, leaving only brown branches that make them appear as if they are dying trees. But on the tips of a few of the branches, pink flowers still blossom. Imagine what it would be like if all those branches had cherry flowers in full bloom, with their pink feathery canopies set against the bright blue sky.
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Collaborating on happiness
Life, Karnjana Karnjanatawe, Published on 11/12/2017
» Soil has been piled up and from afar it looks like a red hill. Frangipani trees without leaves or flowers stand around the foothill as if guarding it from intruders. From the base where locals laid flowers, one can only see some big umbrellas -- the kind used in monk-ordination ceremonies -- at the hilltop.
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New Chon Buri zoo zone
Life, Karnjana Karnjanatawe, Published on 17/08/2017
» The zone is home to 45 animals in 13 categories, including red-shanked douc langurs, yellow-throated marten, Malayan gharial, Malayan tapir and Siamese fireback pheasant. There are also many types of trees and plants of tropical rainforest, dry evergreen forest and mixed deciduous forest.
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In full bloom
Life, Karnjana Karnjanatawe, Published on 19/03/2015
» The ephemeral galapraphruek (pink cassia) trees are in full bloom at Flora Park in Wang Nam Khieo district, Nakhon Ratchasima province, about 230km northeast of Bangkok.
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Come see the sweet and savoury side of Nonthaburi
Life, Karnjana Karnjanatawe, Published on 08/07/2021
» Yellow, red and orange-brown are the colours of ripe dates available in Suan Inthaphalum Preecha, or the Date Plantation of Preecha, in Nonthaburi's Pak Kret district, a short drive from Bangkok.
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The search for the perfect durian
Life, Karnjana Karnjanatawe, Published on 01/07/2021
» While driving along Highway 4 from Phetchaburi to Prachuap Khiri Khan, you will notice vendors sitting under big umbrellas in roadside stalls selling their farm products such as pineapples and rose apples. During this time of the year, you also will see another popular fruit of the province -- the Pa La-u durian.
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Tech fix for city woes
News, Karnjana Karnjanatawe, Published on 22/07/2022
» Shortly after Chadchart Sittipunt became Bangkok governor almost two months ago, he encouraged Bangkokians to report problems in their area directly to authorities through "Traffy Fondue" -- a channel which uses artificial intelligence (AI) technology to manage complaints sent in to the Bangkok Metropolitan Administration (BMA).
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