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For entertainment or service?
Life, Usnisa Sukhsvasti, Published on 03/03/2014
» I was paying my phone bill in Tesco Lotus last week, and on the way back to the car I passed a skin clinic, one of the hundreds of skin clinic franchises that stand on every street corner and shopping centres in Bangkok.
Chukkas for charity
B Magazine, Usnisa Sukhsvasti, Published on 02/02/2014
» HRH Princess Sirivannavari Nariratana recently graced the BMW-B Grimm Thai Polo Open 2014, a charity polo tournament that is part of the Asia League. Held at the Thai Polo and Equestrian Club,
Big book of British royal babies
Muse, Usnisa Sukhsvasti, Published on 11/01/2014
» The Royal Baby Book, published just after the birth of Prince George Alexander Louis of Cambridge, son of the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, provides an insight into the rituals and paraphernalia surrounding royal babies in England since the Victorian era.
Awarded top honour of guiding His Majesty
News, Usnisa Sukhsvasti, Published on 25/10/2013
» When His Majesty the King was ordained as is the tradition for all reigning Thai monarchs at the age of 29, the ceremony was conducted by the 13th Supreme Patriarch Somdet Phra Vajirananavong, who was also abbot of Wat Bowon Niwet.
Luminous journey comes to an end
News, Usnisa Sukhsvasti, Published on 25/10/2013
» His Holiness Somdet Phra Nyanasamvara, the Supreme Patriarch, was born on Oct 3, 1913 in Kanchanaburi province. He was formerly know n as Charoen Gajavatra.
I'll keep dancing on my own
Life, Usnisa Sukhsvasti, Published on 21/10/2013
» All right, they've just thrown another spanner in the works, and created another brouhaha that has more people grinding their teeth and bombarding the social media than when the single person law was proposed a week or so ago.
Let's hear it for the women of Asia
Life, Usnisa Sukhsvasti, Published on 19/08/2013
» My highlight for last week was attending the Asian premiere of Women Of Asia, a play by Asa Gim Palomera, a former artist-in-residence at Chulalongkorn University's Drama Department.
A diplomatic direction
Life, Usnisa Sukhsvasti, Published on 13/08/2013
» Putting aside her hat as wife of the Spanish ambassador to Singapore, Federico Palomera, Asa Gim Palomera has returned to her old stomping ground of Chulalongkorn University's Drama Department to direct her play Women Of Asia.
Long live their new king!
Life, Usnisa Sukhsvasti, Published on 29/04/2013
» Before you leave home tomorrow, make sure to don something of an orange hue. For that's the colour of the Dutch royal family, the House of Orange-Nassau, whose members will be attending the formal abdication of Queen Beatrix in the morning (3pm Tuesday, Thai time) followed by the investiture of her son, Crown Prince Willem-Alexander, as that country's new monarch.
The demons in the drink
Life, Usnisa Sukhsvasti, Published on 24/12/2012
» Doomsday has come and gone, and this column is still here, so I would imagine the shy planet Nibiru missed Earth by a few hundred light years.