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Thai bus safety and infrastructure the incompatible match
Life, Sirinya Wattanasukchai, Published on 08/04/2014
» Apart from the high death tolls, the above statistics have something else in common: all of the accidents took place in Thailand’s hilly areas and involved double-decker buses.
All things chocolate
Muse, Sirinya Wattanasukchai, Published on 26/04/2014
» Chocolate, Chocolate & More Chocolate is the only title fit for this book. It features everything about chocolate. The author Elie Tarrab not only offers dozens of recipes about the sweet treat, but also turns professional chocolate-making into a piece of cake for amateurs.
Fair trading
Life, Sirinya Wattanasukchai, Published on 28/04/2014
» Does running a business always mean turning a profit and financial maximisation? Usually yes, but not always. What about the rice business with the current woes of the government and especially of Thai farmers — does it have to be driven by the logic of margins and profit? Yes, but not always. At least, Thamma Turakit — a project to sell naturally-grown (chemical-free) rice at an affordable price — isn’t maximising its balance sheet. The profit is measured by quality of life based on fairness and virtue.
Nat Geo’s take on the world
Muse, Sirinya Wattanasukchai, Published on 10/05/2014
» A picture says a thousand words. But those published by the National Geographic, famous for their journalistic photography, say even more.
Protests - heaven for cyclists
Life, Sirinya Wattanasukchai, Published on 19/03/2014
» President of Thailand Cycling Club, Thongchai Panswad, has been walking and cycling and encouraging people to do the same for over two decades.
Sowing the seeds of change
Life, Sirinya Wattanasukchai, Published on 25/02/2014
» The government’s rice-pledging scheme was presented as a policy to improve the quality of life of Thai farmers. However, over a period of two years, the scheme has proven to be a failure with more than a million farmers not paid for their harvests, resulting in eight suicides and endless protests, leaving many of them in deep debt. Life speaks to two farmers who left the scheme behind
A rotten deal
Life, Sirinya Wattanasukchai, Published on 04/03/2014
» When picking up a ready-to-consume food or beverage product, what do you look at first — the price tag, brand, flavour, package or expiry date? If you look at just one — or don’t look at all — you should think twice.
Good food for a good cause
Life, Sirinya Wattanasukchai, Published on 06/03/2014
» Isn’t it nice to enjoy beautifully prepared food at a restaurant and to know that dozens of underprivileged children will later enjoy a nourishing meal as well?
Have wheels, will innovate
Muse, Sirinya Wattanasukchai, Published on 07/03/2014
» Cycling isn’t all about moving from point A to point B and My Cool Bike makes that point very well. There’s a lot more to the cycling world than new product launches, says its author who goes on to cover local inventions that fill individual needs.
Historic Bangkok ’hood unearths its colourful past
Life, Sirinya Wattanasukchai, Published on 17/03/2014
» Charoen Chai is an old Bangkok neighbourhood located between Charoen Krung and Plabpla Chai roads, from which names its own is believed to have been derived. In 2010, rumours that residents would be evicted to make way for the construction of a new underground train route (the MRT’s blue line) caused members of this century-old community to band together and form the Charoen Chai Conservation and Rehabilitation group in an effort to save their own homes.