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The sound of a new era
Life, John Clewley, Published on 16/01/2024
» It's been eight years since Paradise Bangkok Molam International Band released their last studio album Planet Lam, in 2016. This followed their debut album 21st Century Molam, released in 2014. In early December, the band soft-launched a vinyl version of their new album Arayalam on the Zudrangma Records label.
DR Congo dandies honour fallen icon
AFP, Published on 11/02/2023
» KINSHASA: Flamboyant dandies paraded near the tomb of one of their icons in DR Congo's capital Kinshasa, flaunting coveted designer labels in stark contrast to the grinding poverty surrounding them.
From cinema ban to film festival: Saudi rolls out red carpet
AFP, Published on 06/12/2021
» RIYADH: Less than four years after lifting a ban on cinemas, Saudi Arabia is to host its first major film festival from Monday as it eyes a lucrative new industry.
The human condition, from a distance
Life, Kong Rithdee, Published on 21/12/2017
» Ai Weiwei's Human Flow is a film that spans the latitudes of a mural painting, vast and long, covering one end of the Earth to the other, many times with a top-down view. This documentary about forcibly displaced people around the world -- from Syria and Iraq, from Eritrea to Mexico -- plays out in the broad scope of Refugee 101, and it works as a (very long) campaign presentation of United Nations High Commission of Human Rights (UNHCR).
The 'Empress' of Chinese nonfiction
Life, Kaona Pongpipat, Published on 18/11/2013
» For Chinese-born British author Jung Chang, having her books scanned and downloaded illegally is something that's very "encouraging". At least in China, that is, where two of her books, Wild Swans and Mao: The Unknown Story, are banned. Her latest book, Empress Dowager Cixi, a biography of a woman who unofficially controlled the China's Manchu Qing Dynasty for 47 years from 1861 until her death in 1908, is pending publication in the country, a situation for which she doesn't "hold up very high hopes".
Utopia's debris
Life, Brian Curtin, Published on 25/09/2013
» The future may have already arrived; well, for those of us who live in Asia's cities. As is regularly and widely reported, the rapid rate of urban growth and change in this part of the world leaves most of us reeling. As soon as we begin to understand the present, it is usually already past.
Betting it all on the rise of the East
Life, Published on 12/08/2013
» You don't have to be psychic to see the future. Jim Rogers, co-founder of one of the first international investment firms Quantum Fund with George Soros, tells you what to expect next. In fact, he's been making eerily accurate calls on world-changing economic trends for the past two decades; see his earlier autobiographies: Hot Commodities, Adventure Capitalist and Investment Biker. In his most recent book, Street Smarts: Adventures On The Road And In The Markets, he continues to demonstrate how world markets are changing.
Arts agenda: Testino double-header, November events in Ukraine, China
AFP, Published on 22/10/2012
» Two Mario Testino exhibitions open at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, while November's calendar includes attractions in New York, Kyiv, eastern China, Madrid, and LA.