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Healing harmonies
Life, Tatat Bunnag, Published on 22/04/2020
» Music can serve so much more than just entertainment to listeners. Music alone can affect emotions, it can be used as a medium to heal, encourage, allow people to share a message or bring awareness, where others can possibly connect with. The Covid-19 outbreak has inspired many local artists to create songs that aim to promote awareness of the virus, support and have empathy for the country's medical workers, and ease tensions through a historically stressful time.
The year in internet searches
Life, Karnjana Karnjanatawe, Published on 02/01/2020
» The most searched words in Thailand last year was the phrase "Chim, Shop, Chai", according to Google's Year in Search 2019.
So long Hawaiian shirt, hello disco ball
B Magazine, Chanun Poomsawai, Published on 25/08/2019
» The wait for and the painfully gradual lead-up to the release of Friendly Fires' third studio album, Inflorescent, have been a year-long affair, a process that began early last year with a quiet banger Love Like Waves. The way the album unfolds over the course of 15 months is perhaps not the most ideal in the age of music streaming where artists and labels have to appease elusive algorithms and metadata by constantly pumping out what they hope would be a next big smash.
The long and winding road
Life, Suwitcha Chaiyong, Published on 22/07/2019
» The Appalachian Trail is a famous 3,500km-long scenic hiking track in the US, attracts about 2 million people each year. It winds its way through 14 states, across wild lands, roads and farms. Attempting the trail is no small task.
Memories buried in soil
Life, Kong Rithdee, Published on 19/07/2019
» Memories and war, illusory borders and invisible scars: These themes are resonant in two documentary films shown late last month at the SAC Film Festival (hosted by the Princess Maha Chakri Sirindhorn Anthropology Centre). In the Thai documentary Din Rai Dan (Soil Without Land), a Tai Yai man in Shan state talks about his life as a waiter in Bangkok and as a soldier in his ethnic army. In the Vietnamese film The Future Cries Beneath Our Soil, a group of men in a rural village bear the indelible wounds of the Vietnam War, still stinging after 40 years.
Tai dishes the dirt, Au lashes Chor party, Blue feels heat
News, Mae Moo, Published on 14/07/2019
» Former actress Saitarn "Tai" Niyomkarn has dished the dirt on her former boyfriend, accusing him of raising a wife and family on the sly and systematically defrauding people.
One-night reunion
Life, Suwitcha Chaiyong, Published on 24/05/2019
» When the popular pop duo Four Mod disbanded over conflicts in 2015, nobody expected they would reunite. But showbiz is always full of surprises. The organiser Archive BKK is bringing the former top duo back.
Soap song 'theft' claims get airing, Sia Po keen to settle scores
News, Mae Moo, Published on 19/05/2019
» The singer at the centre of a copyright mixup which resulted in the leading song for two rival soaps which went to air the same day sounding almost the same denies he benefited personally from the dispute.
Sweet return
Life, Kanokporn Chanasongkram, Published on 10/04/2019
» After a long hiatus from the small screen, Thai diva Mai Charoenpura gives it her all in her comeback, in Channel 3's sensational period drama Krong Karma.
Phuket fights back against rainy season floods
News, Achadtaya Chuenniran, Published on 10/03/2019
» As the upper region braces for the drought, Phuket City is working against the clock to prepare for the floods that will likely hit when the rainy season starts in June.