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Atthaya, Vanchai make it a golden day
Sports, Published on 17/10/2018
» Golfers Atthaya Thitikul and Vanchai Luangnitikul won the mixed team title at the Youth Olympic Games in Buenos Aires on Monday.
Spray-can satire creates headache for junta
AFP, Published on 24/09/2018
» Thailand's junta chief caricatured as a "lucky cat" with a paw raised to rake in money, or his face crossed out by a thick, red line -- daring graffiti is cropping up across Bangkok as the city's walls become a canvas for rare political scorn.
Cyclist Jai wins Thai hearts with historic triumph
Sports, Published on 01/09/2018
» Cyclist Jai Angsuthasawit shed tears as he wrapped the national flag around his shoulders after ending Thailand's four-day gold-medal drought at the 2018 Asian Games in Indonesia on Friday.
'Because I can': ride-hailing app welcomes Saudi women drivers
AFP, Published on 25/06/2018
» RIYADH: Reem Farahat waited for a ride request. Her phone pinged. "I've already cried twice," she said, heading out to work as one of Saudi Arabia's first female drivers for Careem.
Ireland set to repeal abortion ban by a landslide
AFP, Published on 26/05/2018
» DUBLIN - Ireland was set to liberalise some of Europe's strictest abortion laws in a landslide referendum vote in this mainly Catholic country that Prime Minister Leo Varadkar called Saturday the "culmination of a quiet revolution".
Tears at Hawking's college as Cambridge mourns
AFP, Published on 14/03/2018
» CAMBRIDGE (UNITED KINGDOM) - Tears flowed at Stephen Hawking's Cambridge University college as former students, fellow academics and admirers came to pay tribute to the world-famous physicist who died on Wednesday.
All you need is love, and a sense of the absurd
Oped, Roger Crutchley, Published on 11/02/2018
» The approach of Valentine’s Day means we are heading into the annual silly season, although some might argue that in Thailand it is the silly season all year round. Valentine’s is admittedly one of the most spurious celebrations of the calendar, which probably explains why it becomes more popular here every year. However, it serves as a desperately needed break from the daily diet of depressing news.
A queen's life
Life, Parisa Pichitmarn, Published on 20/11/2017
» As I am watching The Crown, only one burning, pressing query hammers against my conscience. In fact, it is the very same question that blazed through my mind as I watched the Minions animated film two years ago: What would Queen Elizabeth II have thought of herself in this portrayal?
Reflections on a love supreme
News, Roger Crutchley, Published on 29/10/2017
» Observing the overwhelming sense of grief of the Thai people from all walks of life during the cremation ceremonies for the late King Bhumibol Adulyadej, it is an appropriate time for reflection.
Look ahead after a grand farewell
News, Kong Rithdee, Published on 28/10/2017
» The yarn of history has spun its fine threads. History is the majestic pageantry that took place on Thursday, the likes of which we'll never see again. It is the centuries-old chariots dripping with gold, the festooned processions and severe steps of solemn marchers, the sorrowful magnificence of the royal crematorium. History is the elegiac trumpet salute to the beloved King, the fabulous cosmology of heaven recreated on Earth, the stunning synchronicity of the masked dance performers, and finally, history is the invisible fire and the grey smoke in the night sky, signalling that everything must return to ashes.