KIS Today

Short Story: Three-Letter Words

After a bizarre police interrogation, a Thai immigrant studying in Dublin realizes that she is being followed by a man she has never seen. With an initially mundane phone call growing ever-stranger, all she can do now is keep walking—and never look back.

One Choice, One Life: A Book Review Of The Divergent Series

You can either be only smart or utterly brave or unconditionally kind or brutally honest or simply selfless or nothing. At the age of 16, you make a choice. Where do you belong? Do you belong in Dauntless, who home fearlessness, or Erudite, who admire brains, or Candor, who worship honesty, or Amity, who always…

The True Cost of Our Cheap Clothing: A Double-Edged Sword

As the fourth within the series “The True Cost of Our Cheap Clothing”, which exposes the exploitative world of the fast fashion industry within Thailand, this article explores and challenges the emerging trend of thrift shopping. Fast fashion leaves a scar on the environment, both before and after consumption. Although the environmental impacts of the…

KIS Spotlight: Debate Club at EISMUN

In this series of KIS Spotlight, we look at extracurricular activities that takes place in KIS. This time we take a peek at the Debate Club, and the experiences that its members had at EISMUN XIV. EISMUN XIII was a valuable experience for the members of our Debate Club that attended the conference in October….

The True Cost of Our Cheap Clothing: Modern Slavery

This article is the third within the series “The True Cost of Our Cheap Clothing”, which explores the exploitative world of the fast fashion industry within our very home: Thailand. This article touches on the antagonistic history between Thailand and Myanmar, and elucidates the institutionalized xenophobia and discrimination against migrant workers through displaying Thailand’s current…

KIS Spotlight: Operation Smile

In this series of KIS Spotlight, we look at extracurricular activities that takes place in KIS. To start things off, we begin with Operation Smile. Operation Smile is an international organization that provides surgeries and care for children with cleft palates and lips. These children have openings/splits in their upper lip, which can be caused…

Short Story: Kitty, Kitty

When the thing under her bed starts talking back to her one day, a girl’s life takes a slow but sure downward spiral.

Art: Waste of time or Magic?

We’re all stuck under the wrath of OnLiNe LeArNiNg and have scrolled through the entirety of social media platforms such as Instagram and TikTok and suffer as we watch people jump over milk crates. However, now I’m – and I’m sure several others are as well – getting bored of the usual transition from our…

The True Cost of Our Cheap Clothing: A Feminist Issue

This article is the second in the series “The True Cost of Our Cheap Clothing”, which explores the exploitative world of the fast fashion industry within our very home: Thailand. Uncovering why fast fashion is a feminist issue, the topics of gender inequality, occupational segregation, and gender pay gap are explored within this article, all…

Six dangerous outcasts, one impossible heist: A review of Six Of Crows

If you are searching for a way to escape thoughts about this pandemic, then you’ve come to the right place! Here is my book review on the Six of Crows book, part of a duology, and has also been adapted into the successful Netflix series “Shadow and Bone” this year! If you loved the Netflix…