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Linguistic realities
Life, Kaona Pongpipat, Published on 04/08/2014
» With indecipherable squiggles on the whiteboard, July Premprecha, a Burmese language teacher, wrote a few simple greetings to her class. Although it is only halfway into the first term with Burmese in the curriculum, the Thai students of Pichairattanakarn School in Ranong province can already respond to simple questions with ease.
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The dream maker
Life, Kaona Pongpipat, Published on 14/07/2014
» An old photograph inside Ferrari’s headquarters in Maranello, northern Italy, shows a young, long-haired man brimming with joy and anticipation as a red racing car approaches the finishing line. It shows the 1974 Spanish Grand Prix and Niki Lauda’s first grand prix victory. The young man is Luca Cordero di Montezemolo; then Ferrari Formula One team manager and now, more than 40 years later, the chairman of Ferrari.
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Don’t fly the plane, be the plane
Life, Kaona Pongpipat, Published on 02/06/2014
» It was only by 0.574sec that British pilot Nigel Lamb of the Breitling team managed to emerge as champion of the Red Bull Air Racing Championship race in Putrajaya, Malaysia last month.
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Shantytown saviour
Life, Kaona Pongpipat, Published on 30/04/2014
» Akihiro Tomikawa exudes a faint air of sadness and one’s first impression on meeting him is that melancholy is a semi-permanent state for this self-made Japanese businessman — a sort of default mode. The 45-year-old appears reluctant to talk about his past, not surprisingly, perhaps, for someone who has so many unhappy memories to suppress. As a boy, he was frequently beaten by his stepfather, driving him to seriously consider suicide and to look back on his childhood as a lonely period when his existence was more like that of a waif — a “stray kid”, as he puts it — than a cherished member of a family unit.
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All the fun of the fair at M2F’s family-friendly Songkran knees-up
Life, Kaona Pongpipat, Published on 28/03/2014
» With the mercury steadily rising in the run-up to the traditional Thai new year, M2F, Post Publishing’s free daily newspaper, has announced plans to organise an alcohol-free celebration of Songkran at Bangkok’s CentralWorld at which revellers will be encouraged to observe the festival in a way that respects traditions and the safety of other participants.
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A cut above
Life, Kaona Pongpipat, Published on 13/03/2014
» No woman has ever been allowed in Schorem Haarsnijder en Barbier (Schorem haircutter and barber) in Rotterdam, the shop’s founders Bertus and Leen said without any trace of fear that this might be offensive to the opposite sex. They once even refused entry to a female journalist assigned to write a story about their shop.
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The 'other' Thai at Sochi
Life, Kaona Pongpipat, Published on 11/03/2014
» Thailand isn’t exactly a country you associate with Winter Olympics success. The closest to winter we have is the “cold spell” that lasts a week or two a year, and the only snow we have is fake, at Dream World.
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From compass to crew cut
Life, Kaona Pongpipat, Published on 24/02/2014
» Satasak Torraksarn, who cuts hair at one of Siam Square’s oldest establishments, Tew’s Barber Shop, has identified at least two similarities between his current occupation and his previous profession — architect: both jobs, he says, are about providing a service and ensuring the client is satisfied with the completed work. One major difference, of course, is the length of time needed to achieve that final result.
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Many hats, much passion
Muse, Kaona Pongpipat, Published on 21/02/2014
» You can sometimes guess a person’s occupation just by observing how he or she looks, speaks or behaves. Unkempt or a tad dishevelled and keeps talking about the meaning or beauty of life? Maybe a writer or an artist. Well-groomed and has a smooth and pleasing way with words? Could be in business or a lawyer.
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War of words
Life, Kaona Pongpipat, Published on 27/01/2014
» When the red shirts camped out at Rajamangala Stadium last December to support PM Yingluck Shinawatra, a popular quip among the anti-Thaksin camp was that the football field needed a proper re-turf as those "kwai daeng", or red buffalo, had eaten all the grass.
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