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A weekend in Vientiane
Life, Pattarawadee Saengmanee, Published on 30/05/2024
» Just a 45-minute drive across the First Thai-Lao Friendship Bridge and with a linguistic resemblance to the Isan dialect, Vientiane is one of the most welcoming destinations for Thais seeking a weekend experience. This humble town radiates the allure of a bygone colonial age and its laid-back lifestyle allows visitors to avoid any rushing.
Celebrating a new generation
Life, Published on 30/05/2024
» At the Thailand Cultural Centre earlier this month, the Thai Youth Orchestra (TYO) supported by B.Grimm presented its first concert of the year titled "Ode To Joy & The Changing World Order".
Local business as usual, says Z.com
Business, Published on 28/05/2024
» GMO-Z com Securities (Z.com) has confirmed that it will continue to operate as usual in Thailand, although the Thai unit is reviewing margin loan service amid a significant drop in trading value of the Stock Exchange of Thailand (SET).
IBM touts future accessibility of AI at companies
Business, Suchit Leesa-nguansuk, Published on 27/05/2024
» IBM, a global technology firm, foresees a future in which small language models will make artificial intelligence (AI) more accessible to organisations.
Telling fortunes 'a nice little earner'
Roger Crutchley, Published on 26/05/2024
» A recent Thai news story concerned a man nabbed in an online fortune-telling scam. He would inform customers suffering from misfortune that their situation would dramatically improve if for a small fee he made a few prayers on his "direct line" to the deities in heaven.
Love, beauty, violence
Life, Kong Rithdee, Published on 24/05/2024
» Last year, the world embraced Barbie and Poor Things, two outstanding films that tapped into the state of female consciousness in the 21st century. At the 77th Cannes Film Festival, which ends tomorrow, women-driven stories of all stripes are pushed further up (or down) the emotional spectrum. A noticeable number of titles premiering at the influential festival feature female protagonists in varying states of joy and distress -- and to varying results. Powerful acting by female talent also injects life and spirit into those stories, hailing from all corners of the Earth.
An urgent mission for new bourse leader
Business, Soonruth Bunyamanee, Published on 24/05/2024
» The Stock Exchange of Thailand (SET) board resolved on May 15 to appoint Kitipong Urapeepattanapong as the 19th chairman of the bourse.
A Thai actor takes the stage at Cannes
Life, Kong Rithdee, Published on 22/05/2024
» In a dreary rural town in Taiwan, illegal Southeast Asian workers live a precarious existence toiling away in farms or homes while enduring tough bosses and prying authorities. Most of them are from the Philippines or Indonesia, but there are also a large number from Myanmar and Thailand.
'Golden Boy' is returned from US
News, Prasit Tangprasert, Published on 21/05/2024
» A 900-year-old statue smuggled out of Thailand by a notorious art dealer in 1975 has finally been returned to the country after spending over three decades in the possession of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.