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Generous benefits of Jeju
Life, Kanokporn Chanasongkram, Published on 09/06/2015
» In one of his most famous poems, William Butler Yeats expressed his desire to go to the uninhabited island of Innisfree in Lough Gill, County Sligo, Ireland, and live alone in a "bee loud glade". The Irish poet was probably homesick when he penned The Lake Isle Of Innisfree in 1888.
Beauty meets technology
Life, Kanokporn Chanasongkram, Published on 24/02/2015
» Francis Lim doesn't normally wear glasses, except for Google Glass, which recorded a make-up session by the Singaporean who was recently in Bangkok to showcase how beauty meets technology.
Music is the best medicine
Life, Kanokporn Chanasongkram, Published on 20/11/2014
» The Supatwanich siblings — Kanlaya, Kangsadal and Chatr — share a talent for singing, and team up as a trio, Plern Asa, for monthly performances at Ramathibodi Hospital's bustling outpatient department.
Two decades of K-Beauty
Life, Kanokporn Chanasongkram, Published on 26/08/2014
» With a history of targeting women in their 20s, Laneige celebrates two decades in the cosmetic industry itself this year. The milestone was marked by its expansion in the US market, with its beauty products retailing at Target stores earlier this year.
The prince of polo
Life, Kanokporn Chanasongkram, Published on 03/02/2014
» According to Chinese astrology, people born in the Year of the Ox may not get along with those born in the Year of the Horse. The reserved ox seeks stability whereas the outgoing horse pursues adventure. Still, the contrasting personalities may complement each other.
From West to East
Life, Kanokporn Chanasongkram, Published on 23/07/2013
» If he hadn't developed a chronic cough, Duncan Napier mightn't have become so passionate about blending herbs to make therapeutic potions that are now being bottled and marketed under the Korean brand Belif. Napiers, the herbalist shop he established in Edinburgh in 1860, is still in business today, but this self-taught 19th-century botanist could never have imagined that his face would one day grace the label on products manufactured by a 21st-century cosmetics firm on the other side of the world.
Setting up campus
Life, Kanokporn Chanasongkram, Published on 03/10/2012
» His parents ran private schools, and his father, Professor Thira Sutabutra, was also Kasetsart University president. But at first, Teepat Sutabutr didn't want to follow their footsteps because he wasn't sure he was a good fit with the education sector.
A Korean perspective
Life, Kanokporn Chanasongkram, Published on 02/10/2012
» From BB cream to K-pop, South Korea has been setting big trends, for instance the Gangnam Style phenomenon that has people across the world copying Psy's wild dance moves.
Snow-white looks
Life, Kanokporn Chanasongkram, Published on 06/06/2012
» In the last one to two years, virtually all leading Western brands have jumped on the BB bandwagon.