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Art auction benefits Thailand's needy jumbos
Life, Patcharawalai Sanyanusin, Published on 24/08/2022
» Dozens of paintings by elephants will go under the hammer to raise funds for needy elephants in Thailand, at the Auditorium, 5th floor of Bangkok Art and Culture Centre, Pathumwan intersection, on Sunday, from 4-8pm.
NGOs vow to stop bill policing their activities
Published on 23/01/2022
» Non-governmental organisations (NGOs) are preparing a vigorous campaign against a controversial draft bill to police their activities.
Pheu Thai MP linked to bribery scandal
News, Post Reporters, Published on 02/10/2021
» The National Anti-Corruption Commission (NACC) has said there is weight to the allegation that Pheu Thai MP for Mukdahan Anurak Tangpanitanon was involved in a bribery scandal linked to the 2021 budget allocation of a government department.
Contemporary mediocrities
Life, Apinan Poshyananda, Published on 03/05/2021
» At the recent ribbon-cutting ceremony of the Office of Contemporary Art and Culture's (OCAC) Art Collection in the spacious art hall on Ratchadamnoen Avenue, a group of ageing male artists covered in sanitary masks surrounded the director of OCAC, Vimolluck Chuchart, who gave a self-congratulatory speech. She proudly announced that the public will be able to view for the first time the national collection of the Ministry of Culture's contemporary Thai art. Beside these elderlies stood a white giant fibreglass sculpture by Sutee Kunavichyanont in Thai military uniform wearing a helmet with a rifle erect. Sutee's Equality; Thai Soldier (2016) is inspired by the cultural mandates between 1939 and 1942 during the premiere of Phibul Songkhram that aimed to uplift the national spirit and moral code of the nation and instil progressive tendencies and newness into Thai life.
A show for lovers of of art
Life, Published on 23/02/2021
» The Covid-19 pandemic can't stop enthusiasts from enjoying the aesthetics of art as G111 Gallery Antiques & Collectibles in Bangkok has gathered masterpieces by the country's top artists for those looking for inspiration.
A foreign hand that embraced the Thai art scene
News, Apinan Poshyananda, Published on 14/12/2020
» Last week, the sad news came via Facebook. Alfred Pawlin, to many of his friends Freddy, passed away peacefully at the age of 69 in a hospital in Vienna. We were informed that Freddy had a brain thrombosis in October and spent more than two months hospitalised.
It's a Thai fight
News, Postbag, Published on 14/12/2020
» Re: "Local politics amid US-Thai relations", (Opinion, Dec 11).
Show some hornbill love
Life, Published on 12/02/2020
» The Hornbill brand under ICC International and Hornbill Research Foundation are holding the 21st "Love Hornbill Day" event featuring a variety of interesting activities at the Hornbill Garden of Mahidol University's Faculty of Science, Rama VI, tomorrow from 10am to 6pm.
Karen seek to delay Unesco forest listing
News, Post Reporters, Published on 23/03/2019
» Ethnic Karen villagers living in the forest in Kaeng Krachan National Park are to petition the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (Unesco), calling on it to delay listing the forest as a World Heritage Site.
Mother proud of son dying in 'dream sport'
Sutthiwit Chayutworakan, Published on 14/11/2018
» SAMUT PRAKAN: The mother of a 13-year-old boxer mourned the loss of her son and said she was proud of him for following his dreams of fighting in the ring.