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Marriott Bonvoy Elevates BMC 2025 with VIP Music Perks
Published on 05/02/2025
» Marriott Bonvoy®, Marriott International’s award-winning travel program and marketplace, is inviting its members to come together and celebrate the joy of live music with two days of concerts and VIP experiences at Bangkok Music City (BMC) 2025, the vibrant urban festival.
Bangkok's experimental renaissance
Life, Tatat Bunnag, Published on 04/02/2025
» The seventh edition of the Bangkok Experimental Film Festival (BEFF7) concluded its run with a thought-provoking and immersive journey into the realms of virtual and augmented reality, with one of its most highly anticipated highlights being A Conversation With The Sun (VR) by celebrated Thai filmmaker and artist Apichatpong Weerasethakul.
Myanmar's civil war after four years
Oped, Thitinan Pongsudhirak, Published on 31/01/2025
» Four years after its military coup and consequent civil war, Myanmar's spotlight in global headlines continues to dim as geostrategic reorientations and realignments among the major powers take centre stage. Dramatic and drastic foreign policy changes are afoot in the United States under the second administration of President Donald J Trump, while the European Union faces an existential threat from Russia's aggression in Ukraine, and Japan is mired in political sclerosis at home. Myanmar's fate and future will thus likely be determined by the course and outcome of its civil war, China's expanding influence in the country and Asean member states' manoeuvres to a lesser extent.
Sixties icon Marianne Faithfull to be 'dearly missed' after death at 78
AFP, Published on 31/01/2025
» LONDON - The British singer-songwriter Marianne Faithfull has died aged 78, her spokesperson announced Thursday, saying the Sixties icon would be "dearly missed" by her legions of fans the world over.
UAE’s Gaza Strategy: Aid, Influence, and Reconstruction
Published on 30/01/2025
» With Israel and Hamas having reached a ceasefire agreement on January 15, 2025, which officially came into effect on January 19, 2025, the war has now ended. Meanwhile, our reporters have investigated the strategy of the United Arab Emirates in the region. The oil and gas-rich Gulf monarchy – a Middle Eastern heavyweight which has a strong rivalry with neighbouring Qatar – is spreading its influence and focusing on the period of reconstruction in the Gaza Strip, where the bombs have finally fallen silent.
Noël Coward play once more gets Thai twist
Life, Published on 30/01/2025
» RCB Experimental Art Lab and Nuni Productions are staging Private Lives, a witty and chaotic ode to love's irresistible drama, at RCB Forum, 2nd floor of River City Bangkok, Charoen Krung 24, every Saturday and Sunday from this Saturday to Feb 16. The showtime is 2pm, plus a 6.30pm show on Saturdays and a special show on Valentine's Day at 6.30pm.
Oscar-nominated films worth checking out
Life, Arusa Pisuthipan, Published on 28/01/2025
» Oscars season is back as the award presentation ceremony is scheduled for March 3.
Chinese lion dance troupe shrugs off patriarchal past
AFP, Published on 27/01/2025
» SHANTOU (CHINA) - Flinging her male teammate into the air, performer Lin Xinmeng practises China's world-famous lion dance with a troupe that is shrugging off centuries of patriarchal norms.
New movies out this week: Jan 23-29
Guru, Nianne-Lynn Hendricks, Published on 23/01/2025
» New releases that hit cinemas in Thailand this week.
Few on the payroll
Oped, Postbag, Published on 22/01/2025
» Re: "Govt bets on casinos", (BP, Jan 14). Amongst all the pie-in-the-sky estimates of potential economic benefits and tax hauls from proposed casino entertainment complexes, I was flabbergasted to see that advocates were only anticipating the creation of 9,000 to 15,000 new jobs should the proposals be approved.