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Ink in their veins

Chats with three of this year's awardees reveal the stories behind the storytellers

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Thin gruel for theists
The idea of a supreme being moralised the western world, argues Robert Wright. But after evolving the idea of....

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It's not about the diet
Two years ago, columnist Ploy Chariyaves was battling with her weight and failing health. 'Happy &....

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Rich and poor in love
No Problem Girl By David Young Published by Hostage Press International Available at Leading Bookstores,....

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The quality of mercy
A group of women prove that pockets of peace and strong relationships can exist in the troubled South

A recent newspaper story reported that a high school in Loei has set up a separate bathroom for kathoey....

Richard Russo, the sage of upstate New York, explains six decades in a life that never graduated from high....

Teenagers in or out of love should make a date with this issue. It offers updates on all the entertainment....

On civil society
Focusing on "the experience of the Small Scale Farmers' Assembly of Isan (SSFAI)", this volume....
A tribute to the tusker
As India's pachyderm population declines, there's a nostalgic yearning for the long-lost mystique of....
Plugging that brain drain
The Wisdom Paradox By Elkhonon Goldberg Published by Pocket Books, 2007 Available at Asian Books, Bt450
Meet Keller the lizard killer
More Living Thai Ways Part III By Michael Keller Published by Bangkok Books, 2006 Available at Asia Books,....

Chronicles of a rich heritage
Joop Ave shares his passion for Indonesian handicrafts in his new coffee-table book
Symbolism Decoded
A new book by a former National Museum volunteers unlocks the secrets behind the motifs of Chinese art
A City of Contrasts
An art historian takes a long, hard look at the Venice of the East in a new cultural guide
'Dead' writer talking
Author Peter James, whose tales of a fictional British police detective sell in the millions, is quite at ease....

Richard A Engelhardt
Background: Unesco regional adviser for culture in Asia and the Pacific and coauthor of the recently published....
John Whitehead
Background: director of the British Council in Thailand