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Doctors fear medical hub brain drain
News, Published on 10/12/2012
» Experts are warning the government's medical hub policy could lead to a brain drain of staff from rural and state hospitals.
Change For The Better
Life, Onsiri Pravattiyagul, Published on 10/12/2012
» As a founder of Change.org, Ben Rattray knows only too well that social activism and technology are a match made in heaven.
Trying to read the unreadable
Life, Published on 10/12/2012
» Contemporary Thai artist Paramat Lueng-On's latest works are on show in the "Phenomenon Of Mind" exhibition at Koi Art Gallery.
Pizza worth waiting for
Life, Published on 10/12/2012
» Three-time World Pizza Champion Danilo Sangrigoli will be entertaining guests at Ramada Resort Khao Lak all this month with fantastic displays of floury-fingered finesse and dough-handling dexterity.
Piano recitals by Swiss virtuoso
Life, Published on 10/12/2012
» D&M Music Studio will be presenting a recital at the Goethe Institute on Dec 19 by Swiss pianist Dan Poenaru who will perform works by Schubert, Chopin, Ravel, Balakirev and Schumann. He will give another recital at the AUA Language Centre in Chiang Mai on Dec 21.
Twists and turns galore
Life, Bernard Trink, Published on 10/12/2012
» Novels are stories, it being the responsibility of the tellers to make them interesting. Some succeed, many fail. The best are fascinating, the worst boring. As important as the story is the way it's told. If told well, seriously or humorously, you want to hear it to the end. If not you yawn, your mind wandering.
Fascinating factoids, Tipsfortheunwary
Life, Published on 10/12/2012
» On page 42 of Thailand At Random it says, in glorious black and white, that Thai taxi drivers are not allowed to refuse passengers. They are also forbidden from charging more than what's on the meter, taking unnecessary detours, dropping you in random locations and blaring horrendous Isan noise at you.
Crazy for information
Life, Published on 10/12/2012
» Sivika Prakobsantisukh belongs to the school of travel writers who have to know much more than what they experience during their journey. She doesn't write all she knows, and she has never published a book, but her each and every letter in travel columns she has been contributing to for various magazines is squeezed from a combination of depth of knowledge and first-hand experiences.
Mountain brew
Life, Published on 10/12/2012
» The English may be known for their love of tea, but John Darch is all about coffee. Darch has been throughout Thailand since the mid 1980s as the chairman of Asia Pacific Clean Energy Corp and an active member in the search for potash deposits and development. His most recent venture as chairman of Doi Chaang Coffee has him up in the mountains of Doi Chang in Chiang Rai province to fill his cup.
Architecture in lightand shadow
Life, Yanapon Musiket, Published on 10/12/2012
» With good photographers, pictures speak. And with all good architectural photographers, immobile buildings seem to come alive.