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Art when it alteration finds
Life, Kaona Pongpipat, Published on 13/11/2013
» From now until February next year, Singapore has a lot more to offer than Orchard Road, the water-spouting Merlion and crunchy Garret popcorn. The fourth edition of the Singapore Biennale, arguably the biggest art festival in all of Southeast Asia, is now in top gear, and the Bras Basah and Bugis Street areas have been transformed into an artistic hub where visitors, local and foreign, can soak up art in all its possible incarnations.
A sonic bang for your bucks
B Magazine, Ezra Kyrill Erker, Published on 18/08/2013
» Among the stars arriving for Bangkok's inaugural Sonic Bang festival on Saturday is one band that is no stranger to Southeast Asia. Frequent visitors to the region, Placebo have brought their reflective, gender-twisting or drug-exploring lyrics, their androgynous look, their dark, melodic instrumentals around the world, and now to Bangkok for the third time.
Capital ideas
Asia focus, Nithi Kaveevivitchai, Published on 17/09/2012
» Not many people outside of Laos may have heard of Od Phongsavanh, but as a banker and unabashed capitalist in an officially Communist country, he has made it his mission to promote and improve the entire financial system in one of Asia’s poorest economies.
Call of the wild
Life, Alfred Tha Hla, Published on 18/07/2012
» Marketing specialist Aran Apichari's love for automobiles was inspired by a fictitious hunter named Rapin Praiwan in the popular Phet Phra Uma novel, which packs in 290 episodes.
Good becomes Better
Life, Yanapon Musiket, Published on 13/06/2012
» A drag queen mother, a vampire hunter, a grandmother and the best sex she's ever had were some of the highlights _ all of them presented by different troupes over a period stretching mid-May to early this month. Just too bad it wasn't in Bangkok but a neighbouring country south of Thailand _ Singapore.
Suvarnabhumi slips in airport rankings
Life, Karnjana Karnjanatawe, Published on 30/04/2012
» Suvarnabhumi Airport has continued to fall in the rankings of Skytrax's World Airport Awards.
All 10 Asean nations to beef up tobacco control measures
News, Apiradee Treerutkuarkul, Published on 24/03/2012
» SINGAPORE : All 10 Asean member states will be made smoke-free environments as the region moves towards an integrated Asean Community by 2015.
Film festival needs direction
Life, Kong Rithdee, Published on 01/02/2012
» If the Red Carpet works, the film festival works. That seems to be the motto of the hype machine behind last weekend's Hua Hin International Film Festival, which proudly paraded stars down the sandy, horse-free beach of the InterContinental while the cinemas were haunted by ghosts. Nothing's wrong with using a movie festival to support tourism, as long as some attention is paid to what it's all about: film, and the film-going experience.