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Serafimerringningen provides closure for Thais in Sweden
News, Chaiyot Yongcharoenchai, Published on 29/10/2017
» Attended by thousands of people, the Serafimerringningen ceremony provided closure for the many Thais living in Sweden and surrounding areas who were unable to attend the grand royal cremation in Bangkok on Thursday.
Lens onto an intractable conflict
Life, Ariane Kupferman-Sutthavong, Published on 13/10/2017
» In 2005, inhabitants of Bil'in, a West Bank Palestinian village, discovered that the "separation fence" Israel was building would encroach on their agricultural land. Quickly, the village became the heart of a non-violent resistance movement, where Palestinian and international activists gathered and devised creative ways to fight the Israeli occupation.
Madness returns!
Life, Kong Rithdee, Published on 11/08/2017
» Before Dunkirk and Saving Private Ryan, there was The Bridge On The River Kwai.
Thailand on the big screen
Life, Published on 19/07/2017
» The Thailand International Film Destination Festival 2017 (TIFDF 2017) is back for its fifth year, featuring films shot in Thailand. The festival begins on Friday and runs until July 25, at Paragon Cineplex.
Vivid colours, abundant beauty
Life, Nianne-Lynn Hendricks, Published on 06/07/2017
» Winston Churchill referred to Uganda as "the Pearl of Africa" in his 1908 book My African Journey, for "its magnificence, for variety of form and colour" and its "profusion of brilliant life".
Ghost in the machine
Life, Kong Rithdee, Published on 05/05/2017
» French director Olivier Assayas sees great similarities between the world of digital and the world of the spirit. All of us, he said, communicate with the invisible -- through our phones or through a spiritual medium.
Journey into darkness
Life, Kong Rithdee, Published on 03/04/2017
» Aiman (Firdaus Rahman) is a young correctional officer recently transferred to a top Singaporean prison. At work he becomes fascinated by the menacing aura of a veteran hangman Rahim (Wan Hanafi Su). Soon the old man nearing his retirement begins to groom Aiman as his successor, but there's a deeper secret that binds the fate of the two men in a more disturbing way.
Sex as violence
Life, Yvonne Bohwongprasert, Published on 17/03/2017
» The raw urgency of award-winning Indian-Canadian filmmaker Deepa Mehta's film Anatomy Of Violence, which examines the 2012 shocking assault and rape of medical student Jyoti Singh by six men aboard a moving bus in New Delhi, drives home the need to address gender inequality at the root.
We didn't start the fire
Guru, Mika Apichatsakol, Published on 10/03/2017
» People, it's not even April yet, and the city feels as though it's been chosen as the launch site for the opening of the gates of hell. Stay cool and hydrated. Make this your daily mantra. This, we're serious about. But as you sip your sweet ice coffee under some air-conditioned refuge, we offer you a light-hearted recap of a few funny, exciting or random bits of news that are theoretical and totally scientific explanations of why this country is so ******* hot right now!
Giving women a voice
Life, Kong Rithdee, Published on 03/03/2017
» A robust line-up of films is coming to us in HeForShe Arts Week Bangkok Film Festival. Organised by UN Women, next week's festival has selected films with messages on gender equality -- or inequality -- and unfair treatment of women in different cultures (not just in the "Third World" countries, to be sure). It sounds heavy, but the good thing is that the titles picked for the event this year are entertaining and heartfelt on top of being socially relevant.