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Family business
Life, Kanokporn Chanasongkram, Published on 21/09/2018
» The tagline goes "Blasting mountains, torching huts". That's how the action films of Chalong Pakdivijit are usually described, for his legendary productions are known to be full of explosions, gunfire, intense fighting and villages being burned at the hands of the villains before the heroes arrive to save them. For five decades Chalong, now an 87-year-old National Artist, has been Thailand's best-known action auteur, on both the cinema and television screens.
Cracking code 9
Life, Kanokporn Chanasongkram, Published on 07/07/2015
» In South Korea, it is believed that those who ages end with nine have bad luck, with this superstition portrayed in the Plus Nine Boys drama aired last year on tvN.
From West to East
Life, Kanokporn Chanasongkram, Published on 23/07/2013
» If he hadn't developed a chronic cough, Duncan Napier mightn't have become so passionate about blending herbs to make therapeutic potions that are now being bottled and marketed under the Korean brand Belif. Napiers, the herbalist shop he established in Edinburgh in 1860, is still in business today, but this self-taught 19th-century botanist could never have imagined that his face would one day grace the label on products manufactured by a 21st-century cosmetics firm on the other side of the world.