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Royal radiance
Life, Atiya Achakulwisut, Published on 26/11/2025
» From an early age, Pichitra Boonyarataphan grew up watching her mother Lumyong -- a legendary pioneer in the Thai fashion industry and founder of the Rapee Fashion House and Dressmaking Institute -- laboriously sew, embroider and modify intricate outfits.
A guide to self-healing
Life, Atiya Achakulwisut, Published on 11/08/2023
» 'Know thyself" -- the most well-known of three maxims said to be inscribed upon the Temple of Apollo in Delphi -- is believed to be the beginning of all wisdom.
Should you invest in solar?
Life, Atiya Achakulwisut, Published on 26/04/2023
» Summer has just started but the heat is becoming unbearable. Electricity costs -- at a record high of 4.72 baht per unit -- are set to soar further thanks to rising fuel costs. These two factors alone are enough to increase interest in solar rooftop systems among households.
Stranger things happening in our strange land
Oped, Atiya Achakulwisut, Published on 05/04/2022
» Strange things are happening in Thailand. Who would believe we would be experiencing a bout of cold and rain in April? But here we are, wrapping ourselves up in thick clothes at the height of summer just a week before Songkran.
The Apec forum won't save PM's election hopes
Oped, Atiya Achakulwisut, Published on 29/03/2022
» 'Whatever we do is seen by people as stupid." It will be ironic, if this statement, uttered in desperation and resentment probably in equal parts, goes down in history as the famous last words of former coup maker and prime minister Gen Prayut Chan-o-cha.
Ultra-royalist pro-Putin stance a worrying sign
Oped, Atiya Achakulwisut, Published on 01/03/2022
» It is shocking enough to see hundreds of far-right ultra-royalists come out in support of Russian President Vladimir Putin's invasion of Ukraine.
Real justice shouldn't be entertaining
News, Atiya Achakulwisut, Published on 15/02/2022
» It is ironic, as laughable as it is sad. Facetiously, dramatically and almost jokingly, justice was literally seen to be done via the live streaming of an event last week when local residents and reporters stormed into a monk's quarters and found a woman hiding there at night.
If we can trust the bureaucracy, pigs might fly
Oped, Atiya Achakulwisut, Published on 11/01/2022
» Soaring pork prices are another indicator of a sinking bureaucracy, a system that's both inefficient and increasingly becoming untrustworthy.
Governor poll will be a contest of imagination
News, Atiya Achakulwisut, Published on 21/12/2021
» Imagination is more important than knowledge, Nobel Prize-winning physicist Albert Einstein famously once said. The Bangkok gubernatorial election, expected to be held early next year but has not been officially scheduled, looks set to be a fascinating contest of imagination.
Is 'fake news' hunt a Covid distraction?
News, Atiya Achakulwisut, Published on 17/08/2021
» With new Covid-19 infections shooting past 20,000 and deaths hovering at around 200 a day, what does Prime Minister Gen Prayut Chan-o-cha do?