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Audacious, vivacious talent
Life, Published on 30/08/2025
» Back in 2021, a group of intrepid Bangkok music students decided to create their own opera company, undeterred by the fact that this is the most difficult art form to produce.
Constitutional crisis looms as Trump admin flirts with defying the courts
AFP, Published on 28/02/2025
» WASHINGTON — Former United States president Andrew Jackson famously reacted to an unfavourable ruling by the Supreme Court chief justice with the defiant rejoinder: "John Marshall has made his decision, now let him enforce it."
Explore the charms of the Med with Siam Society
Life, Published on 15/07/2024
» Siam Society is holding a study trip to discover the charms of two Mediterranean islands -- Sardinia and Corsica -- from Oct 9-21.
Cannes asks: Cinema anyone?
Life, Kong Rithdee, Published on 17/05/2024
» To remind us that we're here because of cinema, the 77th Cannes Film Festival did an uncanny double bill on its first day. The festival opened on Tuesday and will run until May 25. On the first afternoon, before the ritzy kerfuffle of the opening red carpet, Cannes screened the first part of the restored 1927 silent film Napoleon, an audacious epic of the French Revolution by Abel Gance, who 97 years ago tested the limits of what cinema could do with exhilarating results (the entire film runs for seven hours; we were treated to the first four here).
Putin warns West of nuclear war risk
Published on 29/02/2024
» MOSCOW - President Vladimir Putin warned Western countries on Thursday that there was a genuine risk of nuclear war if they sent their own troops to fight in Ukraine, and he said Moscow had the weapons to strike targets in the West.
Napoleon's letters from Russian campaign on sale, hat sets record
AFP, Published on 21/11/2023
» NEW YORK - Eleven letters sent by Napoleon Bonaparte, including dispatches from the Kremlin, have gone on sale following the blockbuster auction of the diminutive French emperor's hat for $2.1 million.
Napoleon's hat sells for record sum at French auction
AFP, Published on 19/11/2023
» PARIS - A hat belonging to Napoleon Bonaparte when he was French emperor sold for a record of nearly two million euros at a French auction on Sunday, the auction house said.
New movies out this week: Nov 16-22
Guru, Nianne-Lynn Hendricks, Published on 16/11/2023
» New titles that hit Thai cinemas for your viewing pleasure.
Milan's Duomo still adored, despite the bother
Sunday Spotlight, Published on 12/03/2023
» Even in a city with La Scala, the glorious opera house, Milan's cathedral unquestionably reigns as the most beloved landmark in Italy's fashion and financial capital.
The two-century-old mystery of Waterloo's skeletal remains
AFP, Published on 03/02/2023
» LIEGE (BELGIUM) - More than 200 years after Napoleon met defeat at Waterloo, the bones of soldiers killed on that famous battlefield continue to intrigue Belgian researchers and experts, who use them to peer back to that moment in history.