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Modern Romance
Published on 23/07/2017
» Bangkok is a modern city where relationships aren’t always just boy meets girl. A new series on GMM25, Bangkok Rak Stories: Please, explores unusual relationships in the capital.
Tapping New Markets
Life, Melalin Mahavongtrakul, Published on 27/03/2017
» Thai developer makes bold choice in reaching out to same-sex couples in condo ad campaign.
Used luxury bag buyers complain of scam
Wassayos Ngamkham, Published on 08/11/2015
» Online buyers of used designer-label handbags have filed a complaint with the Crime Suppression Division demanding an investigation into suspected fraud totaling millions of baht.
Not just a pretty face
Life, Kanokporn Chanasongkram, Published on 27/02/2015
» Over the past five years, Nadech Kugimiya has starred in only six soap operas and one movie, Khu Kam, but that's enough to make the Austrian-Thai (with a Japanese name) one of the hottest heartthrobs in the industry today.
Flawed, but with a message
Life, Melalin Mahavongtrakul, Published on 28/11/2014
» The new Thai film 1448 Love Among Us is a male-directed film about a lesbian couple. The movie poster contains the tagline "A girl-on-girl relationship is something men would never understand". The story is reminiscent a female-made American TV movie If These Walls Could Talk 2, whose first part, titled 1961, starred Vanessa Redgrave and Marian Seldes. It should be noted that If These Walls Could Talk 2 never advertised itself as a story certain groups of people would never get.
Tanwarin's latest a delight, full of tantalising surprises
Life, Melalin Mahavongtrakul, Published on 26/09/2014
» There's a turmoil of emotions, daring and unexpected in Tanwarin Sukkhapisit's latest comedy-drama Love Sud Jin Fin Sugoi. This film (whose title is a linguistic potpourri, an English word mixed with Japanese and Thai slang terms) is packed with familiar faces (the Thai cast members) and also features an appearance by Japanese rock star Makoto Koshinaka. It focuses on the tangled relationships among a group of friends, most of whom seem to be harbouring a secret crush on another member of the group. Then there's the added complication of gender: in this film, gender is not an obstacle automatically preventing one character from being strongly attracted to another.
For his latest trick
B Magazine, Published on 14/09/2014
» Even as K-pop threatens to sweep away all before it, one rocker has proven to be an enduring example of the J-rock wave that crashed into Thailand's music scene a decade ago. That man is Makoto Koshinaka, the frontman of the rock band Lucifer, a solo artist and sometime actor who has cemented a deep bond with Thai fans over the years.
Teardrops and drama
Life, Melalin Mahavongtrakul, Published on 12/09/2014
» Fans of Thai cinema may best remember Apinya "Saiparn" Sakuljaroensuk from the iconic afro hairdo she had in her breakthrough performance in 2007 film Ploy. Seven years later, the afro has been replaced with pigtails and she is now more than ready to stake her claim as one of the most talented and diverse young Thai actresses in the industry today.
Media makeover
Business, Somporn Thapanachai, Published on 24/01/2012
» Finding ways to save a physical media business from extinction was an academic exercise for Rattikorn Prichavongwaikul when she was at university, and keeping the revived business thriving into the future is now her career mission.