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Adapting to new trends
Life, Suwitcha Chaiyong, Published on 07/01/2021
» When leading music label Kamikaze -- a subsidiary of RS Music, which has launched many popular artists such as Faye Fang Kaew (FFK), Four Mod and K-OTIC -- shut down in 2017 due to digital disruption of the music industry, nobody expected the label to return.
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Embracing differences
Life, Suwitcha Chaiyong, Published on 10/12/2020
» There are certain stereotypes of disabled people in Thailand. Often on TV programmes, people with disabilities are portrayed as those who are dependent on others and require donations in order to survive.
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From here to eternity
Life, Suwitcha Chaiyong, Published on 30/07/2020
» Whenever artist Pachara Piyasongsoot goes to visit his girlfriend at her housing estate, he always sees the cleaning staff working tirelessly. After befriending one cleaning lady, he learned that some six families from Kalasin province live in a hidden 92m² space behind a tennis practice wall. Some of them have been there for as long as 20 years.
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Hands off!
Life, Suwitcha Chaiyong, Published on 22/07/2020
» Before the Covid-19 lockdown, Dino Detective used to be the most popular play zone at Bangkok's Children Discovery Museum. Usually crowded with eager children digging for fossils of dinosaurs buried under the sand, now only 10 young participants at a time are allowed in the zone due to the social distancing measures.
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Taking on an ocean of waste
Life, Suwitcha Chaiyong, Published on 29/07/2019
» Debris, plastic bags, plastic bottles, straws. These are things that should never end up in the stomach of a sea creature. Yet this is a depressingly common occurrence, as veterinarian Weerapong Laovechprasit has discovered in his work at the Department of Marine and Coastal Resources. The autopsies he has conducted have turned up rope, Styrofoam, coins and worse. The huge quantities of waste in the oceans is proving fatal to creatures both great and small: sea turtles, dolphins, even whales.
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IoT for everybody
Life, Suwitcha Chaiyong, Published on 06/03/2019
» At a Stem (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) education workshop in St Francis Xavier Convent School, high-school girls designed many Internet of Things projects, such as a machine to cook eggs automatically, a pillow that can wake a sleeper in the morning with its vibrations, and a clothesline that can keep clothes dry by putting canvas up when it's raining. The software program Maker Playground is a tool behind the girls' successes.
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Crisis vs tradition
Life, Suwitcha Chaiyong, Published on 05/02/2019
» Like many other Thai-Chinese descendants living in Thailand, Pornthip Thongprasert is looking forward to Chinese New Year, when she can pay respect to Chinese gods and her ancestors. But this year she faces a tough decision. With the hazardous PM2.5 smog that has been wreaking havoc on the city for weeks, whether or not to keep alive the tradition of burning incense sticks, candles and joss papers that would increasingly pollute the air puts her in two minds.
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Free for all
Life, Suwitcha Chaiyong, Published on 12/11/2018
» Sky. Seon: Have you eaten anything yet?<br> Pa. Hoon: Not yet. We are so busy in the kitchen.<br> Sky. Seon: Shall we have rice soup together?<br> Pa. Hoon: Of course, but Seonho …<br> Sky. Seon: Yes?<br> Pa. Hoon: Could you check on Pa. Ong?<br> Sky. Seon: Hmmm.
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Zero hero
Suwitcha Chaiyong, Published on 01/04/2017
» There are still about 7,000 new HIV/AIDS patients each year. And while modern treatments allow sufferers to live normal lives, many still experience discrimination, even in some hospitals.
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