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Extraordinary opening
Life, Parisa Pichitmarn, Published on 03/06/2015
» To be honest, the whole endless celebration thing going on at EmQuartier was starting to get a little redundant, it's been months since they started and they're still at it. It was almost like a shameless cat that kept coming back from the dead to announce the existence of its nine lives over and over again.
The real cost of a higher minimum wage
Life, Parisa Pichitmarn, Published on 03/06/2015
» With the growing economy, there are a large number of new condominiums and office building projects popping up around the city, whirring with labourers like numberless worker ants in the pit. In such a climate where Satan himself would feel at home, one cannot help but feel sorry and blessed at the same time — sorry for the workers in such conditions and blessed that you are not one of them. One might ask whether the 300 baht minimum wage justifies the working conditions that these poor souls face and one would be right and humanitarian to think as such.