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How to run a fashion magazine in China
Sunday Spotlight, Published on 19/03/2023
» Two years ago, when Conde Nast announced that Margaret Zhang would be the next editor-in-chief of Vogue China, many in the fashion media were taken aback.
Grandparents embrace digital age
Sunday Spotlight, Published on 11/12/2022
» The 65-year-old woman crouches in a field and holds up a head of cabbage. Behind her, two friends sway back and forth, cucumber and radish in their hands. "This rotten cabbage, let's pull it out, eat it, achieve some foodie freedom," Guo Yifen, the woman with the cabbage, raps in a low and creaky voice in the song Spicy Hot Pot Real Rap.
Once more into the upside down
Life, Published on 03/06/2022
» Six years ago, Matt and Ross Duffer whipped up a perfect streaming video dessert, low on nutrition but high in sweet pop culture calories. Season 1 of their Netflix series Stranger Things was an expertly assembled and precisely calibrated souffle of Generation X nostalgia, Spielbergian family melodrama and more intense-than-expected sci-fi-horror adventure. It was a delicious, entirely guilt-free indulgence.
When you can take it with you -- just
Sunday Spotlight, Published on 13/03/2022
» If you were leaving home forever and had just a few hours to collect your thoughts and most precious belongings, items that would have to fit into a knapsack or purse, or just your pockets, what would you choose?
This year was a long, winding stream
Life, Tatat Bunnag, Published on 21/12/2021
» As 2021 moves towards its fateful end, it has been another year of mostly staying home and watching movies rather than at theatres due to the never-ending pandemic. However, movie lovers in Thailand have been introduced to many different streaming services including Netflix, HBO GO and most recently Disney+ Hotstar, each featuring their own original and impressive roster of movies, series, animations and documentaries. All through this year, these services have kept us on our favourite couch at home while we enjoy their massive libraries.
Isis foiled
Life, Bernard Trink, Published on 15/02/2019
» Until a few years ago, no Western publisher dared say a word against Isis, the Muslim terrorist extremists infamous for taking umbridge and reacting violently. No longer. Isis is now targeted by the media and by novelists with impunity.
Will these change the way we read?
Life, Published on 02/11/2018
» 'A book is proof that humans are capable of working magic," cosmologist Carl Sagan once said. "It's a flat object made from a tree with flexible parts on which are imprinted lots of funny dark squiggles. But one glance at it and you're inside the mind of another person, maybe somebody dead for thousands of years."
AR and VR: The new productivity tools beyond gaming and marketing
Business, Published on 01/05/2017
» All of the excitement around virtual reality and augmented reality (VR and AR) these days is spurring consumer marketing teams into action to ride the wave of this "next big thing". Virtual reality works by placing high-resolution screens over the user's eyes, occluding their view of their real-world surroundings. The nature of VR necessitates that the experience takes place in a safe, predefined area. To create greater immersion, many VR headsets also support audio. VR is not a mobile technology in the conventional sense: you can't put on a VR headset and walk down the street.
Life's freshest ingredients
Life, Published on 30/09/2016
» The afternoon sun had melted most of the ice in the Mason jar that held Alton Brown's sangria. At 54 and recently divorced, the king of the food-science geeks and master of ceremonies to the first Food Network generation, rocked gently on a backyard swing and pondered the big questions.
Voice of the future
Life, Pattramon Sukprasert, Published on 06/06/2016
» In 2005, a podcast was launched by Apple, which announced it grandly as the future of radio. As usual, it takes longer for any future trend to take shape in Thailand, and now it seems podcasts are enjoying a surge here.