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A public display of 'Affection'
B Magazine, Ezra Kyrill Erker, Published on 20/05/2012
» 'Affection", a new art exhibition at Bangkok's Centara Grande, combines the talents of three Thai painters who make use of contrasting media and methods to describe elements of nature, animals or the human condition.
From Kowloon To Madrid
Life, Published on 25/04/2012
» TWO FREE FILM FESTIVALS THIS WEEK SERVE UP CINEMATIC TREATS FROM
Underwater elephants
Life, Published on 23/04/2012
» Last week, members of the Art for Ocean group, a gathering of artists who focus on environmental issues, hosted a special workshop to raise awareness of the declining numbers of elephants _ our national animal _ and the destruction of marine life on the coast of Thailand.
Making meat a memory
Life, Arusa Pisuthipan, Published on 27/03/2012
» TV personality and man-about-town Atikarn "Jib" Noonpakdi used to boast that he had only three vices _ alcohol, women and a well-cooked steak _ but that he derived great pleasure from all of them. But after an eerie warning that shook him to the core, the high-living playboy underwent a dramatic self-transformation.
Amazing Biodiversity in jeopardy
Life, L. Bruce Kekulé, Published on 26/03/2012
» On Dec 8, 1941, the same day of the Pearl Harbor attack in Hawaii (Dec 7 in the US), the Japanese Imperial Army invaded Thailand with thousands of troops and settled in. Sometime in 1942, a decision was made to build a railway from Bangkok to Burma and beyond through the thick malaria- and tiger-infested jungles in Kanchanaburi province using Allied and Asian prisoners of war as construction labour.
Gimme An "L", Gimme A "U"...
Guru, Published on 23/03/2012
» A team of students from Bangkok University (BU) put Thailand on the world cheerleading map. Thrice, in fact.
We bought a Zoo!
Life, Published on 16/03/2012
» Matt Damon plays the man who buys a zoo. Watched by the whimsical elephants and indifferent giraffes, his character, Benjamin Mee, a father of a seven-year-old boy, slowly rebuilds his life around his newly acquired property. It is a neglected zoo that however comes with a whole array of wild animals and a band of staff, long unpaid by the previous owner.
On the track of a mystery melon
B Magazine, Normita Thongtham, Published on 11/03/2012
» For nearly 15 years, Peter and Rita Zimmermann have regarded Thailand as their second home, spending five to six months of the year in Bangkok to escape the European winter and then returning to Germany in the summer. Both gardening enthusiasts, their home in Freiburg in the Black Forest area near the German border with Switzerland and France is full of botanical reminders of sunny, tropical Thailand.
Patrimony imperilled
Life, L. Bruce Kekulé, Published on 27/02/2012
» Some 60 million years ago, the tectonic plate on which the Indian subcontinent rests precipitated a collision that creating a ripple effect across Southeast Asia, the uplifting of land causing the formation over time of many mountain ranges. Most of these run from north to south creating a blanket upshot across northern Thailand as well as areas in Myanmar and Laos. This terrain is divided into many mountains and valleys with rivers that bring life to the region and its people.