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Taming the Beasts
B Magazine, Chanun Poomsawai, Published on 23/02/2014
» Wild Beasts / Present Tense
Monet in a photograph
B Magazine, Justin Heifetz, Published on 23/02/2014
» Daniel Cordonnier hates two things: air conditioners and God. But only recently has he been able to give full expression to his feelings. For much of his life the Parisian was dispassionate, his creative desires and ambitions stifled as he pursued a lucrative business manufacturing air conditioners. Then he remembered a day in his childhood that changed everything.
Taking a breath
B Magazine, Suthon Sukphisit, Published on 23/02/2014
» Most people accept the idea of Chiang Mai as the capital of the North, perhaps because it resembles Bangkok in many ways. Both cities have circular roads running around them, and both have intersections with tunnels and pedestrian overpasses. Central Chiang Mai has more condominiums and big hotels than any other city in Thailand except Bangkok.
Casuarina and effects
B Magazine, Normita Thongtham, Published on 23/02/2014
» For some people, the mention of “sun, sea and sand” calls to mind a clear blue sea and a beach fringed by coconut fronds. For others, it evokes having a picnic or lazing the day away by the sea under the shade of a casuarina tree. The truth is that the former is a sight common only in travel brochures; from Rayong in the East down to Phuket in the South, it is Casuarina equisetifolia, commonly known as ironwood or horsetail casuarina (son talay in Thai) that is an integral part of Thai coastal areas. There are more casuarinas on Thai beaches than coconuts.
Friends in need
B Magazine, Published on 23/02/2014
» Barry is a small terrier who was left at a shelter. He is about a year old. He is very friendly and would make a good companion.
Tripping the light fantastic
B Magazine, Usnisa Sukhsvasti, Published on 23/02/2014
» Khunying Genevieve Damon, ballerina and ballet teacher extraordinaire, has just celebrated her 90th birthday. Her amazing life has led her from Paris via the south of France to Bangkok, which became her adopted home.
Tigers' final frontier
Spectrum, Piyaporn Wongruang, Published on 23/02/2014
» Park ranger Onsa peers out from under his cap and raises an antenna, scanning for radio signals from deep in the thick forests of Huai Kha Khaeng Wildlife Sanctuary.
Uncertain fate surrounds Myanmar’s border outcasts
Spectrum, Phil Thornton, Published on 23/02/2014
» It is a difficult time to be a refugee on the Thai-Myanmar border. Last month, the US all but stopped its refugee resettlement programme and many aid agencies have reduced their services.
Census and ethnic sensibilities
Spectrum, Published on 23/02/2014
» Officially, Wut Yee Maung has a complicated background. If her Myanmar ID card is to be believed, she is a young Muslim woman who is half Burman-Pakistani and half Burman-Pathan. But the reality is different: Neither of her parents are Burman or Pakistani, and how she came to be registered as such is a mystery to her.
The Raelians are coming
Spectrum, Published on 23/02/2014
» The world’s largest UFO cult has landed in Cambodia and wants to establish an embassy.