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Soft spot for superstition
Life, Duangphat Sitthipat, Published on 27/01/2016
» On Monday, Prime Minister General Prayut Chan-o-cha weighed in on the current national obsession.
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A screaming success
Life, Duangphat Sitthipat, Published on 17/03/2015
» One Direction, the five-member boy band formed from The X Factor UK, had finally arrived. They staged their first concert in Thailand on Saturday at Rajamangala Stadium, with more than 20,000 people in the audience. While hard-core fans certainly revelled in the show, the performance itself was a lively and solid affair that even non-fans could enjoy.
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Discovering freedom
Life, Duangphat Sitthipat, Published on 08/12/2015
» 'I am most grateful for two things," said Park Yeon-mi at the recent One Young World event in Bangkok. "That I was born in North Korea and that I escaped from North Korea. These events have made me who I am today."
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The gentle touch
Life, Duangphat Sitthipat, Published on 23/11/2015
» Behind the weather-beaten off-white high walls topped with electrical fences that discharge energy at an intensity of 3,500 volts, Dao* is serving a three-year jail term for embezzlement. Completely shut out from the world, her every movement is closely watched through extensive video surveillance. Freedom, for her, seems to no longer exist.
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Ritual abuse or harmless fun?
Life, Duangphat Sitthipat, Published on 09/09/2015
» To haze or not to haze, the question persists. Late last month, scandals concerning university hazing rituals made headlines -- as they have done every year without fail as a new terms starts. First Lalita Hanwong, a history teacher at Mahasarakham University, was verbally threatened with violence and even sexual harassment when she expressed disagreement with the hazing rituals of her university's College of Music.
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Mum's the word
Life, Duangphat Sitthipat, Published on 12/08/2015
» Today is not a regular, boring Wednesday. Not the most hopeless of all the weekdays with the spell that makes us workers feel so wretched for realising we're only halfway through the week. Out of about 16 public holidays Thailand gets in a year, today is one of them. But today is Aug 12, and not just some meaningless public holiday that the people of Bangkok like to take for granted with a good drive to Hua Hin or Pattaya.
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Sending a murderous message
Life, Duangphat Sitthipat, Published on 07/05/2015
» Last month, the Thai Health Promotion Foundation launched a campaign to prevent people from drunk driving just in time for Songkran, a time when road deaths often snowball. The campaign came with a clear-cut message: "Drunk drivers equal murderers".
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Flashes of culinary inspiration
Life, Duangphat Sitthipat, Published on 05/03/2015
» A Thai contestant has been crowned the winner of the reality cooking competition The Amazing Food Challenge: Fun in The Philippines Season 2.
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Keep your wits - And your brains - About you
Life, Duangphat Sitthipat, Published on 26/03/2015
» Zombies are invading Bangkok. Well, kind of. The undead apocalypse will arrive in the capital city with "Run For Your Lives," a zombie-themed 5km running event set to be held at Wonder World Fun Park, on Saturday.
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Bangkok, bluntly
Life, Duangphat Sitthipat, Published on 10/12/2014
» It would be quite offbeat for a Thai to make a fuss about the dirtiness of the capital city. But when an outsider brings up such an ugly truth, it slaps the country right in the face.
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