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Identity denied
Life, Thana Boonlert, Published on 11/04/2026
» When Naboon Palasak competed in Miss Tiffany's Universe 2026, it was not only her pursuit of a childhood dream, but also her passion to advocate for gender equality. During the contest, her social campaign built upon the legalisation of same-sex marriage to promote gender diversity. She launched a survey of public opinion on an all-inclusive student dormitory for transgenders.
Queering temporalities
Life, Story: Thana Boonlert, Published on 11/04/2026
» Birth, marriage, reproduction and death. If human life is conceived as moving through stages, how do queers experience it?
The most expensive cup of tea in Bangkok
BitesizeBKK, Published on 08/04/2026
» Bangkok has always been a city where the same ingredient can cost you fifty baht or five hundred depending on which door you walk through, but matcha has taken this further than most. At one end of the spectrum you have green powder being ladled into plastic cups at stalls across Chatuchak and On Nut. At the other, you have a single cup at Deep Tea in Ladprao running 3,900 baht, and the place is not empty.
Agents of change
Life, Thana Boonlert, Published on 30/03/2026
» In The Shipper (2020), Pan and Soda enjoy pairing young men in yaoi fiction, especially two popular students Kim and Way. Following a bike accident, the grim reaper puts Pan's and Kim's soul in the wrong bodies. Pan recovers in his, while Kim remains unconscious in hers. As the god of death is looking for a solution, Pan must navigate life in her senior's body, giving her opportunities to make Kim and Way closer.
Inheriting the brush
Life, Thana Boonlert, Published on 28/03/2026
» At first glance, a mural resembles a familiar backdrop to an ubosot at any temple. You expect it to depict themes from the Jataka Tales and the Tripitaka to legends and folklore. But upon closer look, it reveals something different -- it is deeply personal, vernacular and subversive of gender norms.
Love in time of censorship
Life, Story: Thana Boonlert, Published on 21/03/2026
» Women negotiate with China's repression of queer romance through consumption of Thai boys' love (BL), according to research by Xiaoping Wu.
The Speak Easy
Guru, Nianne-Lynn Hendricks, Published on 16/03/2026
» One of China's renowned mixologists, Lola Lau has won the Cointreau Margarita Challenge Global Championship and was crowned the China champion for Patron Perfectionists. She was also holding the fort at Hope & Sesame Shenzhen. Lau now travels the world telling stories through liquid tastes.
Sewing a spell against patriarchy
Life, Thana Boonlert, Published on 07/03/2026
» As rush-hour traffic was rumbling along Rama IV Road, Itsariyaporn Klinhom turned a hectic evening into a ritual.
Constant discipline
Life, Alongkorn Parivudhiphongs, Published on 07/03/2026
» For many in Bangkok, the voice arrived long before the performer. Long before Lea Salonga appeared on local concert stages, her voice had already travelled from Broadway theatres and West End productions into living rooms around the world -- and for many listeners, into childhood through the Disney heroines of Aladdin and Mulan.
Why AI cannot - and should not - replace human judges
South China Morning Post, Published on 05/03/2026
» HONG KONG — Every few months, another headline announces that artificial intelligence (AI) is poised to "disrupt" the legal profession. Lawyers, we are told, will soon be replaced by algorithms.