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Del Toro channels inner Hitchcock
Life, Tatat Bunnag, Published on 28/10/2022
» Less than a week leading up to Halloween, the dark fantasy wizard Guillermo del Toro teamed up with Netflix to celebrate this year's spooky season by bringing us four nights of a horror anthology, Guillermo Del Toro's Cabinet Of Curiosities. The series features eight unique horror stories, co-written by del Toro, who has curated a collection of unprecedented and genre defining tales, and handpicked various filmmakers to be the director of the set episode. Each is different from the next in terms of storytelling and levels of scariness.
Van death tragedy
Oped, Postbag, Published on 03/09/2022
» Re: "Kin of dead student puzzled by cuts, bruises", (BP, Sept 2).
Chim Shop Chai: bane or boon?
Life, Pattarawadee Saengmanee, Published on 14/10/2019
» In an effort to boost consumption and tourism in the country, the government is pouring 316 billion baht into its Chim Shop Chai (Eat, Shop, Spend) scheme, through which 10 million Thai citizens are entitled to 1,000 baht and a 15% rebate.
Thailand through the looking glass
News, Roger Crutchley, Published on 01/01/2017
» Well, here we are on the first day of a brand new year. It is customary at this time for newspaper columnists and other bores to predict what's going to happen in the world in the coming 12 months. Let's just hope it's a bit more cheery than the past year, which has been quite awful.
'Mad Max' fans descend on post-apocalyptic playground
AFP, Published on 23/09/2016
» CALIFORNIA CITY (UNITED STATES) - In combat boots, satin thongs and matching nipple tassels, the burlesque girls of the apocalypse celebrate the end of the world deep in the merciless dust of the Mojave Desert.
Pakistan city announces rat-killing bounty after infestation
AFP, Published on 31/03/2016
» PESHAWAR (PAKISTAN) - Authorities in Pakistan's northwest announced a bounty for killing rats after receiving hundreds of complaints of rodents infesting the region's biggest city.
Vietnam's 'Rat King' helps rice farmers fight costly vermin
AFP, Published on 19/12/2014
» Grinning widely, Tran Quang Thieu brandishes the day's haul: 10 kilos of rats caught in rice paddies near Hanoi. A menace to Vietnam's rice crop, the vermin are regularly trapped — and sometimes eaten.
The rat catchers of Trang
Spectrum, Published on 07/12/2014
» Trang city — population 60,000 — is a modest provincial capital where apart from several annual food festivals and the odd funeral there is little excitement.
Rat reward: 10 baht per head for rat hunting
Jon Fernquest, Published on 18/11/2014
» With rat population exploding to 43,000+ in Trang's markets, temples, schools & local communities this rainy season, reward already paid out for 1,000 rats and counting.
B10 rat bounty in Trang municipality
Methee Muangkaew, Published on 18/11/2014
» The rat population in Trang municipality is booming, with more than 40,000 of the four-footed pests now said to infest the area, bringing a growing risk of disease - and health authorities are offering a 10 baht bounty on each rodent.