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Gearing up for digitisation
Business, Reuters, Published on 22/08/2016
» Europe's low-cost airlines once mocked the air miles programmes run by flag carriers as expensive relics of a bygone era. But after watching wide-eyed as customer databases were valued at billions of dollars, they are scrambling to catch up.
Speeding + double parking = disaster
Jon Fernquest, Published on 22/07/2016
» Speeding cars, drivers dozing off, not watching in front, dangerously passing other vehicles, all can be avoided with careful defensive driving.
Found in translation
Spectrum, Jeerawat Na Thalang, Published on 24/04/2016
» During prime-time weekend slots, thousands of Myanmar TV viewers are glued to the box to catch up with the latest instalment of Karma, a drama so popular that it's currently being rerun for the third time.
Hit-and-run suspect turns himself in
News, Post Reporters, Published on 22/03/2016
» A driver suspected of injuring three people in a hit-and-run traffic accident in Bangkok on Saturday turned himself in to police yesterday.
Silence is the enemy
Life, Parisa Pichitmarn, Published on 25/11/2015
» The course of Linor Abargil's life has been shaped by two extremes -- she was raped at knifepoint at 18 and six weeks later she was crowned Miss World 1998. Her story of survival and how she got her rapist a 16-year sentence in jail has turned Abargil into a household shero in her homeland Israel, as well as a globe-trotting advocate fighting against sexual violence. The 35-year-old has spoken about it extensively, probably over a hundred times all over the world in various centres and interviews -- not that it becomes any easier each time.
A crash course in pop
B Magazine, Andrew Biggs, Published on 15/11/2015
» In an effort to remain up with the times, I asked my staff last week to send me a selection of recent Thai pop songs.
Gangster-style car stunts put South Africa in a spin
AFP, Published on 27/09/2015
» JOHANNESBURG - Deep in the Soweto badlands, between car scrap shops and evangelical churches, a diminutive teenage girl showcases her determination to become South Africa's greatest "spinning" star.
The boy racers
Life, Yvonne Bohwongprasert, Published on 27/07/2015
» Pimply faced teenage schoolmates Art, Odd and Arm have one common passion: street motorcycle racing. It is an illegal passion, but a hobby they say has earned them the love and attention they do not get at home.
From horror to biopic
Life, Kong Rithdee, Published on 19/06/2015
» Youth, sex, death — preferably in that order — the indispensable ingredients of horror movies get a spooky shake-up in David Robert Mitchell's It Follows. Ripe with a psychosexual vibe, this creepy film can be read as a metaphor about the demon of one-night-stands, or the venereal guilt of casual sex. Or you don't have to care much, because as far as a ghost flick goes, this one remixes the old formula with wit, serves up a series of shocks, and manages to give off a stylish, purring chill.
Sikhs up in arms against sect leader turned screen superhero
Asia focus, Published on 12/01/2015
» Parts of northern India are on the boil over the release of MSG (Messenger of God), a film that portrays the controversial head of the Dera Sacha Sauda religious sect as a superhero who beats to a pulp criminals involved in trafficking of drugs and women. The sect, according to "godman" Gurmeet Ram Rahim, has more than 50 million members and has ashrams in 11 states of India.