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Film premiere puts environment in focus
Life, Oraya Sutabutr, Published on 15/03/2012
» Once upon a time, there were trees, lots of them. The air was refreshing and even bears weren't hard to find. Birds and squirrels lived in these trees, and near the trees were clear streams where fish swam happily.
Cambodian classics re-emerge
Life, Kong Rithdee, Published on 07/03/2012
» The Khmer Rouge, headlong and senseless, arrived in Phnom Penh and spoiled the party. During the so-called Golden Age of Cambodian cinema, from the 1960s to the early '70s, almost 400 films were released in the country. A number of them travelled across the border and were screened in Thai cinemas, some gaining the status of popular entertainment, and at least one, featuring a chattering snake and his love affair with a beautiful woman, becoming a classic remembered today by Thais as a lost, distant dream.
Muay's unhappy abortion, not singing in harmony
News, Mae Moo, Published on 04/03/2012
» Regrets over operation
Murder in a small town
Life, Published on 02/03/2012
» Neighbours mysteriously disappear only to be later found murdered by someone everyone in the locality knew. Nightmare Next Door, a new series on the Discovery Channel, reveals shocking stories from tightly knit communities across the US.
Keeping the spirit of the country
Life, Published on 13/02/2012
» King Bhumibol Adulyadej: A Life's Work _ Thailand's Monarchy in Perspective is in the mould of official histories commissioned by democratic societies.
In Full Bloom
Life, Jonathan Fryer, Published on 08/02/2012
» It was the stare that always got you. The bold, direct, Cleopatran stare of a woman who knows that she holds the reins simply because she's very comfortable in her own skin. In the '80s, her fame came from posing for sultry, eroticised photos that steamed up the rooms of men, young and old. Now Penpak Sirikul is 51. She has a 30-year-old son. She has no beau at the moment ("I won't hide, I never hide"). But she stares you down and disembowels you with her smouldering, black-widow heat. Look closely, boys: even now, Penpak doesn't do seduction. She is seduction.
Prospecting for gold
Life, Published on 24/01/2012
» The Gold Rush miners are back with a vengeance for another mining season, with new gear, bigger machines, and more miners. Inspired by his father Jack, Todd Hoffman leads the miners _ now with one season under their belts _ to finish what they started and go for gold at Porcupine Creek.
How evil are you?
Life, Published on 13/01/2012
» Can seemingly good, ordinary people be capable of extraordinary evil? Fifty years ago, Prof Stanley Milgram of Yale found out the startling, disturbing answers as test subjects "just following orders" knowingly inflicted pain on others.