Bangkok Post: Learning channel

Learning from news

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  Chai explains "evil woman" Facebook posting

  An excerpt from a long interview with political cartoonist Chai ...

• • Research breakthrough: Stem cells from human ...

• • The matchmaking business laid bare

• • David Beckham announces his retirement

• • Free from jail after police mistake

• • Learning Thai: Royal Ploughing Ceremony

• • Shackles removed from Bang Kwang inmates

• • Small schools join together to stay small

• • Cheap air flights vs. fast trains: Which ...

• • Plodprasop stands firm despite criticism

• • Angelina Jolie: Breasts removed to prevent ...

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Easier stuff

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  Car blaze cancels golf outing

  Niwat Ruangying never made it to his golf outing yesterday. Instead, ...

• • Exploding iPhone 5 tested

• • Miss Tiffany becomes a monk

• • Not the best of friends.

• • Hack attack: pmo.go.th gets a new look (Noon ...

• • 3D printers, more than a new toy

• • The "happy hacker" reappears – in the US

• • What?! We have a curfew?!

• • Child star

• • Ratchanok, Thailand's ambitious badminton ...

• • Empty tank scam fools taxi passengers

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Vocabulary

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  mainstream

  accepted or used by most people; considered ordinary or normal ...

• • sound out

• • winding

• • bogus

• • reptile

• • unselfish

• • inexcusable

• • vicinity

• • bland

• • enclosure

• • gaffe

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Education features

• Jurin wants school closure policy review

  Democrat Party list-MP Jurin Laksanavisit says the government's focus ...

• • Phongthep says Thai-Filipino exchange teacher ...

• • OTEPC grants power to revoke test results

• • International education 2013

• • Panel sets terms for tablet auction

• • Administrators seek pay pledge

• • The smell of fear is real and it's ...

• • International education 2012

• • Big plans for small businesses

• • Thai student's case imperils grey market

• • AEC in 2015? That speels trouble

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Learning together

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  Bookbox: Easy stories with subtitles

  Bookbox is a high quality website featuring animated and rather easy ...

• • Chompoo has her say

• • Learning Thai with Post Today (Archive)

• • What did he/she say?

• • I don’t speak Thai (But I try!)

• • No, it didn’t’ happen, but what if…

• • Would you marry again?

• • The Grammar place (Archive)

• • What would the Earth be like without people?

• • I wonder what would happen if…

• • What could have happened?

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For teachers

• Online resources

  An ever-expanding list of online resources for participants in Bangkok ...

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Books

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  Understanding English verb forms

  An easier way of understanding and using the many forms English verbs ...

• • Speak English clearly

• • "Thailand submerged" interview

• • Introducing Thailand Submerged: The news ...

• • Introducing Thailand submerged

• • Quick, easy and fun ...

• • Easy English news, year 3

• • You can read the Bangkok Post

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Blog

1. A rice deal that never existed in the first place

   The truth is out, that the Commerce Ministry's claim of a 15-million-tonne government-to-government ...

2. Honour your maid, fight for women's rights

   Charity begins at home. So do women's rights and gender equality. That's why who is doing the dishes at ...

3. This very fishy business

   What do you do when big trawlers violate the law, annihilate the seabed with their destructive fishing ...

4. Foreign land grab threat not just an illusion

   Remember the news three years ago about some Saudi sheikhs trying to buy up paddy fields in central ...