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Your horoscope for Jul 22-28
Guru, Chaiyospol Hemwijit, Published on 22/07/2022
» Your spot-on horoscope for work, money, couples & singles from the Bangkok Post's famously accurate fortune teller. Let's see how will you fare this week & beyond!
Your horoscope for Sep 3-9
Guru, Chaiyospol Hemwijit, Published on 03/09/2021
» Your spot-on horoscope for work, money, couples & singles from the Bangkok Post's famously accurate fortune teller. Let's see how will you fare this week & beyond!
Reskilling for the future vital in the new normal
Published on 13/07/2021
» As pandemic recovery efforts progress worldwide, they promise to reverse some of the havoc COVID-19 has wreaked on industry and commerce. Reskilling will be a vital element of this rehabilitation, especially for low-income workers in the much-changed labour landscape. In Asia, that landscape has special features—which may considerably affect the region’s development.
Voices that matter
Guru, Suthivas Tanphaibul, Published on 09/07/2021
» It's been over a year since the coronavirus pandemic swept across Thailand. Restaurants, bars and other businesses have shut shop in droves while nightlife districts have turned into ghost towns. The streets are eerily empty while rental ads and closing signs are spotted on dusty iron shutters. Countless people who work in the nightlife and entertainment industries have been among the first groups to be most severely hit by the effects of Covid-19 and yet, they also seem to be the last group to receive any empathy from the powers that be. Their places of work have been temporarily closed or restricted to a point that they can no longer earn a livelihood. But empathy isn't what they want (or need), they are demanding accountability from the authorities. Let's hear what they have to say.
For Japanese novelist Sayaka Murata, odd is the new normal
Life, Published on 15/06/2018
» Keiko, a defiantly oddball 36-year-old woman, has worked in a dead-end job as a convenience store cashier in Tokyo for half her life. She lives alone and has never been in a romantic relationship, or even had sex. And she is perfectly happy with all of it.
Big draw in Hollywood
Muse, Apipar Norapoompipat, Published on 25/03/2017
» Three years ago, Fawn Veerasunthorn became an overnight sensation. A picture of her had gone viral in the country, sending Thais into a fit of excitement and wonder. In it, she was clutching the elusive golden Oscar statuette with a gleaming smile on her face. The caption read "Yay Frozen! (Thanks for the pic, Nancy:)", and it got netizens digging.
Are these really the ‘Golden Years’?
Life, Parisa Pichitmarn, Published on 14/04/2014
» Yesterday marked Thailand’s Day of the Elderly, and if Thai customs have conditioned you just right, one of the most disconcerting sights you could possibly witness is of an elderly person still working. Our mentality that we should always care for our parents in old age makes us shudder at the reality of old folks still toiling away to make ends meet.
Business as usual for Loy Krathong, other events
Life, Published on 30/10/2013
» Following the death of the Supreme Patriarch last Thursday, the government initially announced a nationwide mourning period of 15 days, but later extended this to 30 days. While national flags were only flown at half-mast until last Sunday, government officials and state-enterprise employees are required to dress in black during working hours until Nov 23.
Follow your star
Guru, Pornchai Sereemongkonpol, Published on 21/12/2012
» Dear Capricorn, a major project may come to a halt. You may do poorly at a job interview or important negotiation.