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A bike fit for Bangkok
Life, Sirinya Wattanasukchai, Published on 28/01/2013
» Bangkok poses a special set of challenges to those brave souls who choose to travel on two wheels. The mixture of narrow streets, typically choked with heavy traffic, and broad, multi-lane avenues that cover large expanses, but which can be hazardous because of speeding motorists, makes this ever-expanding metropolis of ours a very difficult place to negotiate with a single-purpose bicycle.
Opportunity on the Menu for Young
Life, Sirinya Wattanasukchai, Published on 18/10/2012
» Once the cooking class was over, Pithat Kilawong carefully picked the best presentation and started to comment.
Grain of Truth
Life, Sirinya Wattanasukchai, Published on 05/11/2012
» It may not make much sense to grow rice to sell especially to rice farmers. But a group of farmers in Suphan Buri province is doing just that.
Crafty designs
Life, Sirinya Wattanasukchai, Published on 05/11/2012
» Talking about design, people tend to think of short-lived fashionable object from the modern world. But for Outofstock _ a rising designer group in Singapore _ design is rooted in the old crafts.
Date with destiny
Life, Sirinya Wattanasukchai, Published on 05/12/2012
» On a lazy Sunday afternoon, Vithaya Kulsomboon had to call off his plan to share iced chao kuay _ black jelly _ with his family when he found the expiry date marked on the package came a few days before he bought it. He was considering getting a refund on the pack or simply throwing it away.
Putting his heart into it
Life, Sirinya Wattanasukchai, Published on 13/12/2012
» It's always nerve-racking for a food writer to shift to the other side of the counter _ by opening up a restaurant. And it's doubly so if that restaurateur is dishing up food that he or she didn't grow up with.
There goes the neighbourhood
Life, Sirinya Wattanasukchai, Published on 21/08/2012
» 'Take as many photos of this area as you want. What you can see today will soon be all gone," said Sunee Narongrit, a resident of Amphawa, as she gazed at a row of decades-old wooden houses facing onto the canal.
Cycle of evolution
Life, Sirinya Wattanasukchai, Published on 04/10/2012
» The sight of several thousand cyclists gathering on Bangkok streets might be unthinkable. But what seemed beyond imagination became reality when over 14,000 cyclists turned up in force in a campaign to mark the recent Bangkok Car-Free Day.
Finding the root of the Problem
Life, Sirinya Wattanasukchai, Published on 05/10/2012
» Imagine Bangkok physically disconnected from the rest of the country. How long could residents of the capital survive with the remaining food supply? Probably just a matter of weeks of relying on frozen and instant food.
Bike lanes handy for everyone but cyclists
Life, Sirinya Wattanasukchai, Published on 05/07/2012
» What is a common link between motorists, street vendors and police plying city roads?