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Italian Eurovision winner to take drug test
AFP, Published on 23/05/2021
» THE HAGUE: The singer for Italy's Eurovision Song Contest winning rockers Maneskin will take a voluntary drug test after denying speculation that he was snorting cocaine during the broadcast, organisers said Sunday.
Eurovision makes Covid-lite return in the Netherlands
AFP, Published on 16/05/2021
» ROTTERDAM: The kitschy glamour of Eurovision is back, with the Dutch hosting a scaled-down, coronavirus-safe version this week after the song contest was cancelled last year.
Short film contest on climate change
Life, Published on 24/02/2020
» Thailand's first short film contest to highlight the impact of climate change and inspire efforts to ease the climate crisis is now open for entries.
Dutch ballad bookies' favourite for Eurovision
AFP, Published on 18/05/2019
» TEL AVIV: Holland, Sweden and Australia are the bookmakers' favourites going into Saturday's Eurovision song contest finals, as last year's winner and current host Israel battles to emerge with the biggest brand boost.
The end is nigh
Life, Bernard Trink, Published on 28/03/2019
» It has been determined that we've been around for 4.5 billion years, Earth the only habitable planet in the solar system.
Embracing the nature of things
Paritta Wangkiat, Published on 11/02/2018
» The most memorable types of architecture tend to be those that stand out from their setting, appearing distinguished from their environment. But Glenn Murcutt, an Australian architect, has a different outlook.
Knowledge of a king
Life, Peerawat Jariyasombat, Published on 20/10/2017
» Tourism Authority of Thailand has launched Wicha Kao Na (Nine Subjects Of Knowledge), a book inspired by the wisdom of the late King Bhumibol Adulyadej.
Here comes the judge
Life, Bernard Trink, Published on 07/04/2017
» Ours isn't a very bad world, nor is it a very good one. We are born selfish, which isn't wrong in itself. What's mine is mine, what's yours is yours is only fair. However, what's mine is mine, what's yours is mine isn't. How do we protect ourselves when he proceeds to take what is ours?
A wind from the Northeast
Life, Kong Rithdee, Published on 24/03/2017
» Last month the cinemas saw a sleeper hit -- and don't be surprised if your cultural radar didn't beep. The homemade Isan film Thi Baan The Series attracted huge crowds not to Bangkok cineplexes, or not at first, but to theatres in Si Sa Ket, Khon Kaen, Maha Sarakham and elsewhere across the Northeast. Scoring big with regional tastes, the small, Isan-speaking film, made by a group of friends for 3 million baht, has now made over 20 million in box office -- 70% of it on its home turf, the rest in the capital.
The future is now
Life, Bernard Trink, Published on 17/11/2014
» At the end of the 19th century the intelligentsia agreed that everything had been discovered and all mankind had to do was enjoy it. Needless to say they were wrong. More was to be discovered in the 20th century than in all the previous centuries. New discoveries continue to be made non-stop this century.