SEARCH

Showing 1-10 of 76 results

  • News & article

    A mirrored oasis

    Life, Suwitcha Chaiyong, Published on 31/01/2024

    » Located in the middle of downtown Bangkok next to Phloen Chit BTS, a 10m-high art installation titled Liminal Space is a tree adorned with traditional Thai mirrors. Created by Sanitas Pradittasnee, an artist and landscape designer, the spectacular work offers a space for contemplation in the city.

  • News & article

    Subtle art of marketing

    Life, Suwitcha Chaiyong, Published on 10/08/2021

    » Ayumi, a Japanese shoe brand for elderly females, provides colourful designs and allows customers to customise their left and right shoe size when ordering. Meanwhile, Denka no Yamaguchi, an electric appliances retailer, offers special services to loyal customers such as feeding pet dogs or watering plants if a customer has to leave town. Ishizaka, a recycling factory, provides its environmentally friendly facilities to customers in order to connect with the community. These successful Japanese brands have a philosophy of offering special services that go beyond the product itself by not focusing only on sales.

  • News & article

    Discover the origins of German currywurst

    Life, Vanniya Sriangura, Published on 08/09/2023

    » This Saturday, the Goethe-Institut Thailand will feature a culinary talk dubbed "KulturHub: Getting To Know Currywurst".

  • News & article

    Picturing Potter all over again

    Life, Tatat Bunnag, Published on 22/05/2020

    » Do you remember your first time reading the Harry Potter books? For many who were born and raised in the last two decades, they will surely have the story of this young wizard and his epic adventures as part of their childhood memories. There's indeed something genuinely special about these novels by British author J.K. Rowling. Whether it's unique storytelling or the wonderful illustrations, they couldn't escape, becoming lost in this spellbinding magical world. But whatever the reasons might be, the Harry Potter series definitely cast its spell on children and readers all over the world.

  • News & article

    Pottery nam pla

    Life, Suwitcha Chaiyong, Published on 28/03/2023

    » Assoc Prof Sukumarl Sarakasetrin, ceramist and lecturer at the Faculty of Fine and Applied Arts, Chulalongkorn University, took an interest in mochaware -- a type of household pottery first produced in the UK -- having been struck by its complex patterns resembling those seen on agate.

  • News & article

    A creative accounting

    Life, Thana Boonlert, Published on 13/02/2023

    » Sophie, a young pianist, dreams of performing at a concert hall. When she gets an invitation letter, she feels overjoyed and begins to prepare for a debut, though with a sense of foreboding. On concert day, the sound of music comes from nowhere. She finds that it is created by the ghosts of past performers, yet continues to play her instrument. Her performance brings the ghosts peace, and they gradually disappear. As time goes by, Sophie becomes a successful pianist, but she never forgets the event.

  • News & article

    Superstition killed the turtle

    Life, Published on 08/10/2018

    » Throughout the 25 years of her life, Om Sin -- a sea turtle from Chon Buri -- was a symbol of luck and longevity to people who threw coins into her concrete pond believing that doing so would bring them prosperity. Little did she know that it would bring bad luck upon herself.

  • News & article

    For the love of comics

    Life, Arusa Pisuthipan, Published on 04/05/2022

    » BKK Unzine, a digital art magazine, is organising Thailand's first-ever BKK Comics Art Festival, which takes place from May 10 to 22, at the Bangkok Art and Culture Centre (BACC).

  • News & article

    7-Eleven takes literature to the next level

    Life, Parisa Pichitmarn, Published on 06/07/2015

    » Feel like SEA Write is a little too out of your league? Thanks to the countless other badges of honour that acknowledge good writing available in our country, the prestigious SEA Write Award is not the only ticket to literary stardom. 7 Book Awards, an initiative that started between CP All Public Company Limited and the Ministry of Education, has been honouring outstanding literature since 2004. This year's awards ceremony will be taking place later this month.

  • News & article

    Bringing the birth stories to life

    Life, Chris Baker, Published on 12/10/2015

    » The jataka tales or birth stories are the most vivid and accessible part of Buddhist teaching. The Buddha, once he gained the ability to recall his past lives, related all 550 of them to the monks in his following. In some lives, he was a king, some a hermit, some a pauper, and in a few an animal. The 10 longest of these tales became associated with his 10 last lives and with his attainment of the "perfections" that enabled him to be born as the historical Buddha. In this book, this Great Ten have been translated anew for the first time in over a century.

Your recent history

  • Recently searched

    • Recently viewed links

      Did you find what you were looking for? Have you got some comments for us?