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Foreign media now allowed into Papua provinces
Kyodo News, Published on 10/05/2015
» Indonesian President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo said Sunday that foreign journalists wanting to travel to the restive provinces of Papua and West Papua no longer require special permits, a policy imposed over the past several years due to an insurgency in the region.
Le Tour de Death
B Magazine, Andrew Biggs, Published on 10/05/2015
» Bangkok is a great city for anybody with a death wish. If you want to overdose on heroin, come on over. Try crossing the street on a zebra crossing. Just choosing the wrong song in a karaoke bar can get you killed.
In exile on mainstream
B Magazine, Chanun Poomsawai, Published on 10/05/2015
» Trading in their banjos for cliched rock sounds has not served Mumford & Sons well on their third record
Som tam with extra spice
B Magazine, Published on 10/05/2015
» What could be hotter than walking through Chatuchak market in summer? Not much you’d think, but add spicy food to the mix and the temperature does seem to rise.
Watering down the Thai New Year
B Magazine, Suthon Sukphisit, Published on 10/05/2015
» For many centuries Songkran, the Thai New Year celebrated in April, had a special meaning for Thais, one that drew on both religious belief and tradition. But today, with a much larger population, both society and ways of thinking have changed.
The magic mountains of the Philippines
B Magazine, Normita Thongtham, Published on 10/05/2015
» From primary school, Filipino children are taught how rich the Philippines is in natural resources. But as a child I saw how the Caraballo mountain range straddling our province of Nueva Ecija in Central Luzon was being denuded of its forest cover, either by illegal loggers or settlers clearing the land for cultivation.
Freinds in need
B Magazine, Published on 10/05/2015
» There are many puppies at the shelter who urgently need a loving home. They don’t belong at the shelter and would not survive without a better environment. If you have space at your house, please consider saving a life.
Em District’s gastronomic paradise
B Magazine, Usnisa Sukhsvasti, Published on 10/05/2015
» EmQuartier shopping centre has entered the second phase of its official opening in what is being called the Em District, with the original Emporium shopping centre and the future EmSphere nearby.
Taxi activists slide into reverse
Spectrum, Published on 10/05/2015
» Lae is 28 and has been making a living by working construction jobs and waiting tables in Bangkok for most of the past decade. He is, at the moment, a taxi driver, a job he says is much less physically demanding than his previous occupations.
The big business of saving lives
Spectrum, Nanchanok Wongsamuth, Published on 10/05/2015
» Patcharin Arabiya scurried to find 5,000 baht to secure a room at Thonburi Hospital’s coronary care unit while doctors performed CPR on her mother, Samruay Sopajaree. The 78 year old suffered a heart attack on March 24, 2013, an hour after arriving home from a visit to Khao Yai National Park.