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    In for the kill

    B Magazine, Chanun Poomsawai, Published on 28/04/2019

    » From debuting on CBS's The Late Show With Stephen Colbert to being the first K-pop group to perform at this year's Coachella, BLACKPINK are unstoppable in their quest for global pop domination, which is the ultimate goal that lies at the heart of South Korea's ongoing cultural export scheme. Like their label mates Big Bang and 2NE1, the Seoul-based quartet is meticulously designed by industry behemoth YG Entertainment. But what really sets BLACKPINK apart from their peers is their collective cosmopolitan edge -- Jisoo representing Korea, Lisa bringing the spicy Thai flavours and New Zealand-born, Australia-raised Rosé and New Zealand-raised Jennie completing the picture with their multicultural upbringing. Singing and rapping in Korean, Japanese and English, they're probably the first all-female idol group to have amassed an army of fans, endearingly known as "blinks", not only from Asia, but also North America and elsewhere, in just a few years.

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    The late, late show

    Life, Kong Rithdee, Published on 13/06/2016

    » Normally prime time for television is 8-11pm or thereabouts, the period when the family gathers to watch news and series while having dinner. So it will come as a surprise to many that for Muslim audiences during this month of Ramadan, prime time for television is closer to a graveyard shift -- 3-4.30am, deep in the night while most people are asleep -- as families wake up for the pre-dawn meal before a full day of fasting.

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    A-Lister's Surgical Body Reshaping Secrets

    Published on 20/04/2024

    » HOLLYWOOD STARS’ TOP BODY SECRET SOLUTIONS

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    '60-Minute' Lunchtime Face Lift

    Published on 10/04/2024

    » ‘A LUNCHTIME FACE LIFT FOR TOP CELEBRITIES IN ONLY JUST 60 MINUTES TO ACHIEVE THE AGELESSNESS LIKE THE STARS’ AT NIDA ESTH’ MEDICAL CENTRE

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    Farewell to a maestro

    Life, John Clewley, Published on 10/04/2024

    » The world of molam has been in mourning since news emerged that Thailand's greatest phin player Thongsai Thap Thanon passed away on March 20 at his home in Warin Chamrap district, Ubon Ratchathani, at the age of 77. The phin is a two- or three-stringed Isan Lao lute that is part of the trinity of molam instruments, along with the iconic khaen (free reed bamboo mouth organ) and the sor (fiddle).

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    Latest Thai-Korean collabs making waves

    Life, Suwitcha Chaiyong, Published on 18/03/2024

    » Two international collaboration projects are making a buzz. First, NuNew, a Thai entertainer, and Paul Kim, a Korean singer, collaborated on the single Blooming Just For You. Second, Wuju Bakery, a Boys Love TV drama, starring Jeff Satur and Barcode Tinnasit is a collaboration between Thailand and South Korea.

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    A joyous sound

    Life, John Clewley, Published on 07/11/2023

    » In 2001, the legendary US Gospel group Blind Boys of Alabama released an album on Peter Gabriel's Real World Records label. It was a hugely popular album which garnered the band a Grammy Award for Best Traditional Soul Gospel Album. It included their version of Tom Wait's song Way Down In The Hole, which was the theme song for the TV miniseries The Wire. Their version is better than Waits' in my view.

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    The complex legacy of Lost In Translation two decades on

    Life, Published on 18/09/2023

    » It has been 20 years since an ageing Bill Murray and a young Scarlett Johansson introduced Tokyo to a generation in Sofia Coppola's Lost In Translation.

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