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'Hidden Figures' shocks Screen Actors Guild Awards
Associated Press, Published on 30/01/2017
» LOS ANGELES, California - The cast of "Hidden Figures" rocketed to the Screen Actors Guild top award at a fiery, protest-laden ceremony that was dominated by defiance over President Trump's sweeping immigration ban.
Three stories from Asia
Life, Kong Rithdee, Published on 28/10/2016
» An illegal Filipino migrant in Hokkaido, a Japanese grandfather in Penang, a UN official reflecting on the romantic past in Phnom Penh. The three short films in the omnibus Asian Three-Fold Mirror: Reflections narrate the criss-crossing of destiny between Asian people -- or particularly in this case between Japanese and Southeast Asians. The Reflections project has been commissioned by the Japan Foundation and Tokyo International Film Festival (TIFF) as a means to show the mutual relationships, present or forgotten, among the Asian countries.
Art on a huge scale
B Magazine, Michael Ruffles, Published on 23/10/2016
» If Thailand was to get a 23-metre easel weighing 12 tonnes, where should it go? And what painting should it support? These are the questions Cameron Cross hopes to answer as he attempts to bring his international public art project to Thailand.
The Soul of a Man
B Magazine, Chanun Poomsawai, Published on 31/07/2016
» The British soul revivalist serves up a stirring new album after a four-year break.
All aboard for some big fun
Life, John Clewley, Published on 21/06/2016
» One of my favourite times of the year is when the dry season ends and the countryside is transformed into a sea of green. And nowhere is it more fun to be at this time of year than in Isan. I have happy memories of rainy seasons in Buri Ram, where as soon as the rains arrived the village teenagers would take me out at night with a miner's light fixed on my forehead to hunt for tiny frogs.
Singapore dreams of literary revolution
Life, Kanin Srimaneekulroj, Published on 30/11/2015
» This year marks Singapore's 50th year of independence. It is a momentous occasion for the country, a milestone that equally inspires a nostalgic look at its past as it does its aspirations for the future. In keeping with the celebratory spirit of the occasion, the annual Singapore Writers Festival, which took place earlier this month under the theme "Island of Dreams", celebrates in equal measure the country's 50th birthday -- and its hopes for the future -- as well as the vibrant literary scene in Southeast Asia.
96 Cicadas
Guru, Mika Apichatsakol, Published on 13/11/2015
» Five contemporary performance artists will take on Franz Kafka's most influential works in an exciting crossroads of style and storytelling, during the Unfolding Kafka Festival. Guru speaks with one of the artists, Berlin-based Yoko Seyama, whose piece based on Kafka's Der Bau (The Burrow) is currently showing.
Silent insects hang out
Life, Pattramon Sukprasert, Published on 11/11/2015
» When Yoko Seyama was invited to join the "Unfolding Kafka Festival", the installation artist didn't take much time to think about what she would be doing. By focusing on a word from the title, "unfolding", she immediately came up with origami.
Money matters. Not
Life, Parisa Pichitmarn, Published on 12/08/2015
» Playing around with money is not something most can afford to do. Even Yosuke Hasegawa feels a bit queasy at times when folding up his "moneygami", but since they lead to sales that bring in more money, he's wincing a lot less these days.
An ode to cats' slaves
Life, Anchalee Kongrut, Published on 10/08/2015
» Ring out the canine. Ring in the feline. Online, cat celebrities have already conquered the world, meanwhile "Choupette Lagerfeld", the beloved pet of designer Karl Lagerfeld, has its own Wikipedia page and Twitter account, where the moody cat-moiselle has more than 46,000 fans under its claws.