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    GTH's Mez is a romcom kind of guy — get used to it

    Life, Duangphat Sitthipat, Published on 05/12/2014

    » I Fine Thank You Love You is the latest romantic comedy film from GTH to hit cinemas nationwide next Wednesday. The film centres on a teacher, Pleng, who is asked by a student leaving for America to tell her boyfriend Yim she wants to break up with him. Yim blames Pleng for perfecting his girlfriend's English skills and nags her to teach him to speak English so that he too can go to America and get his girl back.

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    High scores, flaws and bot wars

    Life, Duangphat Sitthipat, Published on 17/12/2014

    » Nobody knows if Thailand will ever make it to the World Cup final.

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    Finding his Voice

    Life, Duangphat Sitthipat, Published on 30/12/2014

    » When Somsak Rinnaira posted on his Facebook page that he would save up money to go compete in The Voice, he was not totally serious. That was back in 2013 when Somsak was just a 21-year-old college student who worked part-time at a KFC branch in Chiang Rai.

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    Home is where the heart is

    Life, Duangphat Sitthipat, Published on 05/01/2015

    » ‘I haven’t dressed up this handsomely for so long,” said Chaiporn Vathanaporn, an 82-year-old man who has been living on the streets for more than 17 years. He spoke last month at an event where he was honoured with a Prachabodhi Award, recognised by the Ministry of Social Development and Human Security for his charitable deeds.

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    Siam through the lens of John Thomson

    Life, Duangphat Sitthipat, Published on 06/01/2015

    » In the mid-19th century, John Thomson arrived in Siam with a fairly new invention of those days: photography. The Scot would set up his camera in exquisite parts of Bangkok and take pictures — in those days having one's picture taken was an elaborate and even privileged activity — of some of the most important figures and places, including King Rama IV and V.

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    Make Art, Not War

    Life, Duangphat Sitthipat, Published on 14/01/2015

    » Ongoing exhibition “Dynamic Convergences: Sociology And Art”, held at The Art Center of Chulalongkorn University, features contemporary artworks from nine artists on the interpretations and responses to the topical subject of non-violence.

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    Employees: On your bikes

    Life, Duangphat Sitthipat, Published on 15/01/2015

    » Bangkok is not bad at embracing special events observed around the world to raise awareness of a particular issue — be it Car-Free Day, World No Tobacco Day, Earth Day, to name only a few.

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    In your face

    Life, Duangphat Sitthipat, Published on 17/01/2015

    » Since ancient times, portraiture has been a way to memorialise human faces. The origin of the practice dates back to sometime around 2500BC, early examples of which include the bust found in the tomb of Prince Ankhhaf in Egypt. Over the millennia, portraiture has become an intrinsic part of art and its history.

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    Bangkok, bluntly

    Life, Duangphat Sitthipat, Published on 10/12/2014

    » It would be quite offbeat for a Thai to make a fuss about the dirtiness of the capital city. But when an outsider brings up such an ugly truth, it slaps the country right in the face.

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    The wonders of witchcraft

    Life, Duangphat Sitthipat, Published on 17/10/2014

    » Sbek Gong (Kon Nhug Nhiew in Thai) is a Cambodian film that has claimed the unprecedented feat of becoming the top-grossing film of all time in the Cambodian box office, with revenues of US$300,000 (9.7 million baht). It is showing in selected theatres in Bangkok this week.

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