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    Asean Film Festival is finally here

    Life, Kong Rithdee, Published on 28/03/2024

    » Despite the odd, unexplained double postponement -- the first when it was moved from early December 2023 to late January 2024, and then from January to March -- the Bangkok Asean Film Festival finally gets under way, from today until Sunday at SF CentralWorld. Despite the adjournment, the line-up looks decent, with the best Southeast Asian titles culled from the past year -- Tiger Stripes, Inside The Yellow Cocoon Shell, Abang Adik, Dreaming And Dying, Oasis Of Now, Nowhere Near, Morrison, Thai classics The Adventure Of Sudsakorn and The Adulterer, and a short film competition.

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    Netflix reveals made-in-Thailand content slate

    Guru, Pornchai Sereemongkonpol, Published on 20/02/2024

    » Yongyoot Thongkongtoon, Netflix's director of content, Thailand, recently revealed what subscribers can expect from the streaming service in terms of local content.

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    Welcome to the really silly season

    Oped, Roger Crutchley, Published on 24/12/2023

    » It's Christmas Eve and we are well into the Jinger Ben season in Thailand (Jingle Bells to the uninitiated). But in these dodgy times one suspects there might not be too much jingling going on. Nonetheless, considering all the gloomy news of late, a couple of weeks of being a bit daft offers a welcome break. So we might as well make the most of the Jinger Ben jollity, like a lady teller at my bank who was sporting some rather cute rabbit ears.

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    The worldwide population boon

    Oped, Published on 31/03/2023

    » An easy way to start a long, heated debate is to mention global population. Thomas Malthus famously ignited furious arguments in the 19th century when he warned that, absent fertility-control policies, exponential population growth would outpace improvements in agriculture and cause recurrent bouts of famine and pestilence. Industrialisation would postpone the crisis, but not forever.

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    'So be it': Ukrainians despair as Russians hammer Chasiv Yar

    AFP, Published on 13/03/2023

    » CHASIV YAR (UKRAINE) - In the embattled eastern town of Chasiv Yar, Valentyna is so exhausted by constant shelling she does not care if she dies.

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    Prime time or Netflix? Streaming wars come to Thailand

    AFP, Published on 07/12/2022

    » International streaming platforms were among the biggest Covid-19 pandemic winners, seeing subscriber numbers soar, but United States giants have turned abroad as countries reopened -- with Thailand firmly in their sights.

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    Back with a bang

    Life, Tatat Bunnag, Published on 29/11/2022

    » Heavy rain caused music lovers to rush and purchase rubber boots to prepare for Maho Rasop Festival 2022, held Nov 19-20. At the event were many celebrated international artists, including MONO, Last Dinosaurs, DIIV, Fazerdaze, Mild High Club, Dry Cleaning, A Place to Bury Strangers, Tokyo Shoegazer and more who checked in to perform at the two-day outdoor festival.

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    These Children Are Making Millions on YouTube

    Business, Published on 28/11/2022

    » Three years ago, YouTubers who go by Vlad, Niki, Diana and Nastya were friends cruising around Miami on a 97-foot yacht to celebrate a birthday. Today, they are locked in a fierce rivalry over YouTube supremacy.

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    When the everyday looks special

    Sunday Spotlight, Published on 09/10/2022

    » Julie Blackmon grew up in Springfield, Missouri, a city of 165,000 people in the southern part of the state, and went to college there. She got married in Springfield and raised three children there.

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    Schoolgirl tells Congress of playing dead to survive Texas massacre

    AFP, Published on 08/06/2022

    » WASHINGTON - An 11-year-old who smeared herself with her murdered friend's blood to play dead during last month's school shooting in the US state of Texas relived the horror of her ordeal before a panel of lawmakers on Wednesday.

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