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Medical Council considers shortcut to plastic surgery career
News, Nanchanok Wongsamuth, Published on 18/09/2016
» The Medical Council of Thailand is on the verge of approving short-term certificate programmes in several medical procedures, a move seen as a stamp of approval...
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Surgeons warn of action over cosmetic training
News, Nanchanok Wongsamuth, Published on 25/09/2016
» The Royal College of Surgeons is threatening to file a consumer protection complaint against the Medical Council if it goes ahead with a plan to certify short-term...
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Struggling industry leaves reporters squirming for survival
Spectrum, Nanchanok Wongsamuth, Published on 25/09/2016
» The journalists had spent the whole morning learning how to breed earthworms, lobsters and growing sunflower sprouts. By noon, Somruedee Polkhaw left the farm...
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Why GPs want to be a cut above the rest
Spectrum, Nanchanok Wongsamuth, Published on 25/09/2016
» When a group of physicians urged the Thailand Medical Council late last year to approve short-term certificate training in facial plastic surgery, the move angered...
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Kickboxer, chemist, CIA man - the many tales of Herbert La Fon
News, Nanchanok Wongsamuth, Published on 02/10/2016
» For decades, Herbert Craig La Fon appears to have deceived many of the people around him. But when the police peeled back the black plastic sheets to reveal the...
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Photojournalist in the eye of the storm no more
News, Nanchanok Wongsamuth, Published on 09/10/2016
» The horrible traffic jams, the disgusting air and the "sh*tty" place at Khao San Road were the reasons that German photojournalist Nick Nostitz hated...
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We can prescribe it for you wholesale
Spectrum, Nanchanok Wongsamuth, Published on 09/10/2016
» At first glance, it would be easy to mistake the dozens of large pharmacies sitting across the road from Siriraj Hospital in Thon Buri for registered wholesale...
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Multiple ways to fail but I managed to pass the test
Spectrum, Nanchanok Wongsamuth, Published on 16/10/2016
» I lost my driving licence more than three years ago while walking along the streets of Asok in Bangkok. I had already stopped driving as my car had broken down...
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An open road ahead
Spectrum, Nanchanok Wongsamuth, Published on 16/10/2016
» The Department of Land Transport is getting used to visits from people looking to invest in a driving school. A decade ago, there was only one private driving...
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A million volunteers to help grief-stricken people
News, Nanchanok Wongsamuth, Published on 23/10/2016
» The Mental Health Department has asked more than a million volunteers to reach out to villages nationwide to seek out those in need of mental health assistance...