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New movies out this week: Aug 30-Sept 5
Guru, Nianne-Lynn Hendricks, Published on 30/08/2023
» New titles that hit Thai cinemas for your viewing pleasure.
At the crossroads of history
Life, Suwitcha Chaiyong, Published on 16/03/2022
» In a career than spans three decades, photojournalist Vinai Dithajohn has risked his life covering several coups and protest movements mostly using Democracy Monument as a vantage point. An exhibition of some his most harrowing shots and others that humanise protesters and police officers alike is currently on display at Bangkok's VS Gallery.
A prince's life and love
Life, Pichaya Svasti, Published on 05/09/2017
» The biographical book Katya & The Prince Of Siam, published for the first time in 1994, has been a source of knowledge and insight for Thai history buffs, and they have longed for more stories about a Siamese prince who fell in love with a Russian woman before their marriage ended sadly over a century ago. The wait is over with the recent launch of the first comprehensive exhibition and a new book on the prince's life and work.
Comfort moves out of the zone
B Magazine, Chanun Poomsawai, Published on 09/10/2016
» Mean and Co's debut shows they can pull off more than airy acoustic pop songs.
Crime and culture
Life, Bernard Trink, Published on 04/01/2016
» As a New Yorker, my friends and neighbours sent me off to Asia, via Japan, to do my duty in the Korean "Police action". The continent got into my blood and I resolved to head back after receiving my honourable discharge from the military, which I did as a backpacker six years later.
Rome in Britannia
Life, Bernard Trink, Published on 31/08/2015
» With kings, the Senate and emperors Rome dominated much of the known world for a millennium. Though outnumbered by its enemies, its well-trained legions won battle after battle and war after war. Julius Caesar was its most famous general, yet it had others only marginally less successful.
To protect and serve?
Life, Published on 25/05/2015
» Civilisation came about when people put away their clubs, picked up their hoes and left protection and order to those paid to enforce it. Marshals and sheriffs tamed the Wild West by jailing or killing lawbreakers. Robert Peel showed how urban police forces ought to be organised and properly run.