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Rare 'Hobbit' first edition auctioned for B1.85m
AFP, Published on 07/08/2025
» LONDON - A rare first edition of J.R.R. Tolkien's The Hobbit sold for £43,000 (1.85 million baht at auction on Wednesday, after it was found during a house clearance in southwest England.
Studio Ghibli marks 40 years, but future looks uncertain
AFP, Published on 06/06/2025
» TOKYO - Japan's Studio Ghibli turns 40 this month with two Oscars and legions of fans young and old won over by its complex plots and fantastical hand-drawn animation.
Dire sea level rise foreseen even if climate targets met
AFP, Published on 20/05/2025
» PARIS - Rising seas will severely test humanity’s resilience in the second half of the 21st century and beyond, even if nations defy the odds and cap global warming at the ambitious 1.5 degrees Celsius target, researchers said on Tuesday.
RCB Experimental Art Lab stages The Blue Hole
Life, Published on 05/03/2025
» RCB Experimental Art Lab presents The Blue Hole, a psychological thriller that will grip, shake and shatter the truth of humanity. Four performances will be staged at RCB Forum, 2nd floor of River City Bangkok, Charoen Krung 24, on March 15, 16, 22 and 23 from 5pm to 8pm.
Are high-skill immigrants a problem?
News, Published on 13/01/2025
» Fissures within US president-elect Donald Trump's "Make America Great Again" (Maga) coalition have appeared sooner than expected. By the end of December, the tech-billionaire wing was in open warfare with Maga's nativist wing over America's H-1B visa programme, which enables US businesses to employ some 600,000 skilled foreigners per year on a temporary basis.
Don't write the obituary of the lunch hour just yet
Oped, Published on 26/11/2024
» Rewatching Modern Times the other day, I realised it's only a matter of time before something like the Billows Feeding Machine gets shilled on TikTok Shop.
Rethinking national prosperity through institutions
News, Published on 13/11/2024
» Each autumn, a telephone call from Stockholm launches one or a few scholars to international fame with the bestowal of the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences -- a process that Irving Wallace dramatised in his 1962 potboiler The Prize.
‘Godfather of AI’ co-winner of physics Nobel
Published on 08/10/2024
» STOCKHOLM - Geoffrey Hinton — often called the “Godfather of AI” — and John Hopfield have won the 2024 Nobel Prize in Physics for discoveries and inventions that laid the foundation for machine learning.
Kratom now a $1-billion industry in the US
Published on 03/10/2024
» In Southeast Asia, people for centuries have chewed the leaves of the kratom tree — part of the coffee family — as a pain-relieving, energy- and mood-boosting remedy.
Meet world's first edible robot
Kyodo News, Published on 31/05/2024
» KYODO - A cloudy yellow rectangular figure about seven centimetres long wobbles from side to side, waving its gelatinous arms as it makes a friendly greeting, its body resting inside a mug.