Bangkok Informer

Children spend more time watching television, playing video games and computer, and in the same time, they are snacking junk food   BANGKOK – Department of Health deputy director-general Theerapol Topanthanont said on Monday that about one in five Thai preschoolers and one in 10 children of school age may suffer from obesity by 2015 [...]

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Teens wearing fake orthodontic braces.     BANGKOK – The fake braces trend is a fashion statement gaining popularity among youth in Asia that can kill the wearer, already resulting in the death of two Thai teens. More and more teens in Thailand, Indonesia, Malaysia and China are buying into the fake braces trend, which [...]

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Siam Paragon is about to get a whole lot zanier. A 10,000 square meter area in one of Bangkok’s landmark buildings will be home to Kidzania’s third largest “edutainment” site in the world. This imposing, scaled-down reproduction of a bustling metropolis is set to open by December 2012 and cost an estimated THB760 million. Kidzania, [...]

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