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Position vacant: job interviewer
B Magazine, Andrew Biggs, Published on 15/03/2015
» Business is on the up so I am looking to hire a new receptionist. My HR lady says the position must be advertised as “In-house Public Relations Co-Ordinator”.
Yesterday Once More
B Magazine, Chanun Poomsawai, Published on 15/03/2015
» While breaking no new ground, Noel Gallagher’s second solo effort delivers a potent dose of nostalgia that caters specifically to Oasis fans.
Flavours from foreign lands
B Magazine, Suthon Sukphisit, Published on 15/03/2015
» We are always discovering new dishes, many of them created when the influence of one type of cooking brings fresh ideas into another. This process has always been with us, and is one way in which the global culinary repertoire grows. When a new idea is absorbed it is usually adapted to use local ingredients and techniques that make it appetising to the cook’s personal taste. Adaptation of this kind takes place in all countries and cultures.
A taste for fine vines
B Magazine, Normita Thongtham, Published on 15/03/2015
» For more than seven years Chris Kaye had a beautiful Rangoon creeper on a trellis in front of his house some 20km south of Pattaya. “It has done remarkably well, producing copious fragrant flowers with virtually no special care,” he wrote. “Watering relied only on rainfall. Over the last two months it has completely died for no obvious reason. I cannot see any insects or grubs that may have killed it.
Freinds in need
B Magazine, Published on 15/03/2015
» This mother cat was found roaming in a workers’ camp. She gave birth to five beautiful kittens. All of them are very healthy.
Expats who made an impact
B Magazine, Michael Ruffles, Published on 15/03/2015
» The best bits of Americans in Thailand are up the back. And starting there isn’t as dumb as it sounds: There will be people out there picking it up at Asia Books or Kinokuniya and giving it a flick, looking for familiar names in the index. Choose a name, turn to a page, and you will find an interesting story told well. Chances are you will continue reading, and you will probably be intrigued enough to turn back to the previous chapter, and the one before that, to figure out what came before.
All revved up and somewhere to go
B Magazine, Usnisa Sukhsvasti, Published on 15/03/2015
» Fans of the Prancing Horse were out in force at the recent three-day “Celebrating 25 Years of Ferrari in Thailand” event at CentralWorld. The event was hosted by Cavallino Motors, the sole official dealer and service provider for Ferrari in Thailand.
On the trail with Bangkok's No 1 ladies' detective agency
Spectrum, Chaiyot Yongcharoenchai, Published on 15/03/2015
» When Amnuaiporn “Kung” Maneewan first graduated in 1995, her only ambition was to find a well-paid job. The answer to her dreams was just around the corner, and she managed to land a position as an accountant at the IBS law firm, near her home in the Ram Intra area of Bangkok.
On the front line against Ebola
Spectrum, Published on 15/03/2015
» It was about a month after arriving at the Ebola treatment units in a remote corner of Liberia when Bangkok resident Erik Fleischman felt the early stages of fever. Thoughts of the previous weeks flashed through his mind; of patients writhing in agony as they lay dying in pools of their own vomit and excrement, of the intense heat inside the crowded, non-airconditioned tents which acted as makeshift hospital wards.
‘VIP students’ in a class of their own
Spectrum, Nanchanok Wongsamuth, Published on 15/03/2015
» It’s called a “VIP classroom” and the students are referred to in official records as the “VIP Group”. The classes take place at a public university in Chachoengsao province on alternate weekends, in one of the institution’s more stylish rooms, with lunch and snacks served.