(Phitsanu
Thepthong and Chin Ratitamakul) A female fire-dancer breathes fire for the
thousands of people who witnessed the 31st National University Tongkwao Games
opening ceremony on Children’s Day at the 700 Year Anniversary sports stadium.
(More photos and details on the back page this week)
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Pure Heart Project satisfies a heart-felt need on Children’s Day
The theme of this year’s Children’s Day was ‘Love your country, love your parents, learn to be good and your future will be bright’. All wonderful sentiments, but there are still thousands of children in the north of Thailand who can not live on love alone - food, warm shelter and education are needed to achieve this bright future. |
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For the love of a game Why did two relatively sane people come to Thailand for
one week and decide to stay? |
There are many reasons why a person leaves the country of
their birth, their family and friends to start a new life - mostly not for
the reason we did it - for the love of a game, the game of cricket.
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DEP to organize more training courses The Department of Export Promotion (DEP) is expecting more businesses will be trading internationally within three years. Benchawan Rattanaprayoon, deputy director-general of DEP said that the Thai government is promoting and developing businessmen, especially exporters, to promote Thai exports abroad, particularly the OTOP products. |
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Tourists flock to see 800,000 year-old trees Natural Resources and Environment Minister Prapat Panyachatraksa expressed concern for the fate of fossilized Malabar ironwood trees thought to be over 800,000 years old discovered in Tak Province. Prapat said that reports from the Department of Mineral Resources suggested that the fossilized Malabar ironwood logs, discovered in the Mae Salit-Pong Daeng Forestry Reserve, were the largest and most complete of their kind ever to have been found in Thailand. |
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