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Be sweet to yourself with soursop
B Magazine, Normita Thongtham, Published on 19/02/2012
» The Jan 1 article on soursop (Annona muricata) generated letters from readers. Dr Kittipongse Sumipan, a retired scientist who worked at the National Research Council of Thailand, wrote to say that the fruit is common in his hometown of Nakhon Si Thammarat in southern Thailand.
Pucker up for soursop
B Magazine, Normita Thongtham, Published on 01/01/2012
» Happy New Year to all readers. The year 2012 starts today, and may it bring you prosperity not only in monetary terms, but also the things that matter most in life, namely good health, love and happiness.
Overcoming obstacles to orchid growing
B Magazine, Normita Thongtham, Published on 15/01/2012
» Lynda Smit wrote that she would like to learn more about orchids. ''We live in Bangkok and I would like to fill our home with orchids. But where do I purchase them?'' she asked. ''And how do I look after them? I did a lot of researching and found different information.''
The wood that could
B Magazine, Normita Thongtham, Published on 22/01/2012
» During a trip to the Philippines in November, I tried to find an old schoolmate I hadn't contacted since high school. I was told his family had moved, and that he now owned a furniture shop. As I had promised a mutual friend that I would find him, I looked for him where I was told he had moved, along a country road lined by gmelina trees. I did not find him, but I did learn something.
Jack of all trades
B Magazine, Normita Thongtham, Published on 29/01/2012
» James Anderson wants to know what causes the fruit of a large jackfruit tree behind the school where he teaches in Thung Lung, Songkhla province, to turn black and rot. "The fruit are huge _ the size of the trunk of a small child _ but they are covered with disease," he wrote. " [They have] large gaping dark black or dark brown holes with putrid brown juices dripping from them, and all eventually just fall to the ground rotten.
Give 'em shelter from the storms
B Magazine, Normita Thongtham, Published on 08/01/2012
» Glanz Ang, a friend who lives in Cagayan de Oro in the southern Philippines region of Mindanao, emailed me in November to express his concern about the floods that were devastating Bangkok. "I hope your house is not affected. Please update us on how you are doing. We are worried about the flood in your place," he wrote.