Soldiers lured to burning phone box; 2 shot dead in Yala, Narathiwat

1 district, 1 scholarship programme put on hold

The Education Ministry is suspending its “One District One Scholarship” programme this year in order to evaluate the impact of the programme on its first lot of recipients, after one of the grantees committed suicide last year.

Fair, tall is teen ideal

Thai teens prize a fair complexion, a tall and slender physique and, in boys, a businessman-like personality as ideal traits – so much so that many of them are willing to brave plastic surgery to change their looks.