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Vatican thriller
Life, Bernard Trink, Published on 25/08/2017
» Christianity hasn't been around long, its two millennia shorter than Hinduism, Buddhism, Judaism. The God-Mary match captured the public's imagination and Holy Mother Church has been matched with God ever since. It survived its encounters with the Saracens and the Reformation, and now has an estimated following of 1 billion.
The truth remains inconvenient
Life, Kanin Srimaneekulroj, Published on 25/08/2017
» For a lot of people, global warming never existed until 2006.
Court case 'no excuse' to sow chaos
News, Aekarach Sattaburuth, Published on 25/08/2017
» Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha has appealed to the public not to let any particular case in the justice process ignite political turbulence and derail the country's reforms.
Gothic gloom in an oestrogenic Eden
Life, Kong Rithdee, Published on 25/08/2017
» With morbid delight and cool lyricism, Sofia Coppola's The Beguiled tells the story of a Union soldier who finds shelter in an all-girl school during the American Civil War. The soldier, played by Colin Farrell, goes from scared to cocky to bewildered, a handsome lump of masculinity amid the virginal corsets of the good Catholic girls. The women -- Nicole Kidman as the headmistress, Kirsten Dunst as the French teacher, Elle Fanning as one of the students -- go from giggly to paranoid to practical, a chaste, confused, all-white colony of calm amid the smoking gunfire of war.
The Holy Grill
Life, Vanniya Sriangura, Published on 25/08/2017
» Penthouse Bar & Grill, which opened three weeks ago at the Park Hyatt Bangkok, presents to epicures a culinary poise that is on par with the hotel's style-centric sophistication.
It's double D-day for Boonsong, Yingluck
News, Aekarach Sattaburuth, Published on 25/08/2017
» All eyes are on the Supreme Court's Criminal Division for Holders of Political Positions as it hands down its ruling today on two major rice-pledging cases, in which former commerce minister Boonsong Teriyapirom and former prime minister Yingluck Shinawatra are defendants.
Songkhla power plant sit-in an energy wake-up call
News, Paritta Wangkiat, Published on 25/08/2017
» A peaceful sit-in protest against a coal-fired power project by four Thai-Muslims from Songkhla in the South in front of the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment has drawn attention to the "flaws in state development planning".
Atthaya and Kosuke bag golf crowns
Sports, Published on 25/08/2017
» Kosuke Hamamoto and Atthaya Thitikul completed a golden double for Thailand yesterday.
War Elephants enter semi-finals
Sports, Tor Chittinand, Published on 25/08/2017
» Thailand yesterday produced a stunner that not only sent title favourites Vietnam crashing out of the men's football first round but also forced their coach Nguyen Huu Thang to resign.
World Bank ups Thai GDP forecast
Business, Pawee Sirimai, Published on 25/08/2017
» The World Bank has a more bullish view on Thai economic growth, raising its estimate to 3.5% this year and 3.6% in 2018 after a stronger-than-expected first half for exports and tourism.