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The diy path to a dazzling garden
B Magazine, Normita Thongtham, Published on 19/08/2012
» Years ago, when several houses in my neighbourhood had lawns, there was a man who made regular rounds of the houses on weekends to mow them or prune trees. We had a gardener at the time so he did not work for us, but he had several customers in my neighbourhood. I could see him mowing the lawn of my nearest neighbour one weekend, and pruning the shrubs in the garden of a house farther down the road the next.
Friends in need
B Magazine, Published on 19/08/2012
» Balloon is a golden retriever who was dumped at a local shelter. He is about five years old, very friendly and would make a great companion.
Tough Love
B Magazine, Richard Mcleish, Published on 19/08/2012
» It seems that gadgets are not only getting lighter and faster, they're getting tougher too. And while the compact camera market has seen huge gains in terms of output quality, the toughness factor has come into its own this year.
Queen's diamonds make for a sparkling afternoon
B Magazine, Published on 19/08/2012
» Aglittering event titled "Petch Proud" was recently organised by JSL Global Media and Crossworks Manufacturing Co at the Swissotel Nai Lert Park to launch the "Royal Queen Cut Diamond Tribute Project", in honour of Her Majesty the Queen's 80th birthday anniversary. The project entails the special commission and sale of 200 80-facet diamonds, with proceeds to be donated to Her Majesty the Queen for use in her many royal projects. To produce the diamonds' hearts and arrows pattern a new cutting technology was introduced called Ideal2.
US software piracy chase could see Thai companies sink
Spectrum, Published on 19/08/2012
» Thai companies using pirated software that export their products to the US could be crippled by a law aimed at targeting the use of illegal IT.
For Belarusian troupe, show must go on despite dangers
Spectrum, Ezra Kyrill Erker, Published on 19/08/2012
» Thespians of the Belarus Free Theatre have been beaten, arrested and harassed by authorities. And husband-and-wife co-directors Nicolai Khalezin and Natalia Kaliada, as they explained to Spectrum last week while on a visit to Bangkok, are now forced to live in exile, facing prison sentences if they return home. Within Belarus _ their large landlocked country of just under 10 million people, bordered by Russia, Ukraine, Poland, Latvia and Lithuania _ the actors continue to perform in secret and at great risk to themselves and their audiences.
Pipe dreaming
Spectrum, Published on 19/08/2012
» Early on in Steven Martin's prodigiously researched and at times painfully honest memoir Opium Fiend: 21st Century Slave to a 19th Century Addiction, he explains his nostalgia for opium's past. The way he sees it, the historic substance _ a 2000 Vanity Fair article by Nick Tosches referred to it as a "medicine and holy panacea older than any known god" _ suffered an ignoble decline in the face of post-colonial globalisation.
A tale of two cities _ bangkok and yangon face off as AEC 2015 nears
Spectrum, Published on 19/08/2012
» Southeast Asian countries will become a single economic community in 2015. As people in each of these countries will be able to move around freely and work or live in any other member nation, there will be a direct impact on the property market in the industrial, office, retail and especially residential sectors.
The power of trusts in financial planning
Spectrum, Andrew Wood, Published on 19/08/2012
» We have been looking in recent weeks at trusts in financial planning and how you can use them to your advantage. We conclude this week with a look at how to establish and manage a succession plan while continuing with the successful management of your financial affairs.
PETS IN THAILAND XI Man Bites Dog _ Part 2
Spectrum, Published on 19/08/2012
» What if an owner fails to properly care for a pet? We talked last week about behaviour towards an animal that amounts to extreme cruelty. Such acts would be punishable under the Criminal Code.