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No hell in Buddhism
Published on 21/08/2023
» Re: "Macabre deity statue to be obscured from public view", (BP, Aug 19) & "Keeping the faiths", (Editorial, Aug 19).
A melting pot
Life, Pattarawadee Saengmanee, Published on 30/03/2023
» Late in the morning, my caffeine-dependent friends and I made a pit stop at the newly opened Pua Tobacco Barn Café & Eatery to refuel before leaving the popular town of Pua, close to the Xienghone-Hongsa special economic zone between Nan and Laos.
Filmmaker's dream
Life, Karnjana Karnjanatawe, Published on 06/05/2021
» The Serpent, an eight-episode crime drama series screening on Netflix since April, left the audience including me wondering where the film was shot.
Exploring Bangkok's green lung
Life, Karnjana Karnjanatawe, Published on 23/07/2020
» Grey clouds have been creeping into the sky over Bang Kachao, the green area in Samut Prakan's Phra Pradaeng district, since morning. Sooner or later, rain will blanket the community to cool down a sweltering day.
Travelling post-Covid
B Magazine, Published on 05/07/2020
» With the government's Rao Tiew Duay Gan scheme launched to boost domestic tourism as well as the recently-announced Songkran holidays which were moved from April to the end of this month, vacationers are drafting some itineraries to satisfy their wanderlust as many leading hotel chains and tourist attractions are offering several options of specially crafted holiday packages with extra benefits.
Rodents are simply a master of taste
News, Roger Crutchley, Published on 05/08/2018
» There was a news report last week about the arrest on the Cambodian border of a gentleman smuggling 800kgs of dead rats. Imagine that. There are plenty of ways to make money through smuggling, but bootlegging deceased rodents is not one that immediately springs to mind.
Once lost, now found
Life, Kong Rithdee, Published on 01/02/2017
» The 69th Cannes Film Festival begins today in southern France with its usual fanfare. Regarded as the world's most prestigious event of cinema professionals, the festival celebrates film as art, commerce, glitz and as cultural treasure. Fittingly, this year Cannes has invited only one Thai film to screen in the Cannes Classics programme -- the recently discovered 1954 Santi-Vina, which was once thought to be lost and has now been restored to its celluloid glory.
Ginseng tonic
Life, Kanokporn Chanasongkram, Published on 27/09/2016
» For men, the king of herbs is a natural Viagra. For women, it's a potent skin-revitaliser to help keep wrinkles at bay.
Romancing Bangkok
Life, Kong Rithdee, Published on 26/08/2016
» Paris had Paris Je T'aime, New York had New York I Love You. Now Bangkok has its own film ensemble drawn from different neighbourhoods of the city. Bangkok Stories, a portmanteau of six films telling tales of brief encounters and nebulous romance, will premier tonight at the 20th Short Film and Video Festival at Bangkok Art and Culture Centre, before going on to cinema and television release later.