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Lion's share
Life, Kaona Pongpipat, Published on 27/01/2017
» The night was lively around the neighbourhood of Saint-Germain-des-Prés last Saturday for the opening of this year's Paris Déco Off, an annual event where more than 100 home-furnishing-fabrics brands join to showcase their latest designs. But there was perhaps more buzzing than anywhere else down the quaint Rue de Furstenberg where the Jim Thompson showroom is situated.
Stars of the Thai stage honoured
Life, Kaona Pongpipat, Published on 24/03/2016
» The theatre scene in Thailand is still a relatively small affair yet it was a lively evening on Tuesday as directors, performers, theatregoers and members of the press joined the 2015 IATC Thailand Dance and Theatre Review awards ceremony at Bangkok Art and Culture Centre.
Building blocks
Life, Kaona Pongpipat, Published on 25/11/2015
» ‘An example of bold, contemporary architectural thinking,” said World Architecture Festival director Paul Finch of “The Interlace”, a residential development designed by OMA/Buro Ole Scheeren, which has been crowned World Building of the Year 2015 at the World Architecture Festival in Singapore earlier this month.
The voice of the northeast
Life, Kaona Pongpipat, Published on 17/03/2015
» By the haystack next to a rice field, Yothin Kijbai sung out in high-pitched, rhyming Isan verses that he apparently knew by heart. Dressed in a light blue costume adorned with glittering sequins, the 68-old-year is not a madman but a well-known "comedy molam".
The dream maker
Life, Kaona Pongpipat, Published on 14/07/2014
» An old photograph inside Ferrari’s headquarters in Maranello, northern Italy, shows a young, long-haired man brimming with joy and anticipation as a red racing car approaches the finishing line. It shows the 1974 Spanish Grand Prix and Niki Lauda’s first grand prix victory. The young man is Luca Cordero di Montezemolo; then Ferrari Formula One team manager and now, more than 40 years later, the chairman of Ferrari.
All the fun of the fair at M2F’s family-friendly Songkran knees-up
Life, Kaona Pongpipat, Published on 28/03/2014
» With the mercury steadily rising in the run-up to the traditional Thai new year, M2F, Post Publishing’s free daily newspaper, has announced plans to organise an alcohol-free celebration of Songkran at Bangkok’s CentralWorld at which revellers will be encouraged to observe the festival in a way that respects traditions and the safety of other participants.