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Shopping malls as Bangkok's cultural thermometer
BitesizeBKK, Published on 19/02/2026
» Bangkok’s shopping malls serve as a cultural litmus test. Step out of your TikTok and Instagram feed for a quick minute, and take a walk around the multi-leveled floors of Emquartier, take the escalators up and down Dusit Central Park, and a peek at the ground floor of Siam Paragon and it’ll be a very telling test of which brands are working, what’s attracting queues and who’s on their way out.
Rockers U2 take aim at ICE and Putin in new songs
AFP, Published on 19/02/2026
» LONDON — Irish rockers U2 released their first collection of new songs in nearly a decade on Wednesday, featuring a collaboration with singer Ed Sheeran and a Ukrainian musician and soldier.
Promoting co-existence
Life, Thana Boonlert, Published on 12/05/2025
» While parents were sitting on picnic blankets, kids were romping with laughter reverberating across the yard. Stationed according to their own age in an arcade, players hit flashing buttons to create notes as fast as possible -- hence rearranging popular songs with melodies of different generations.
Dough therapy
Life, Thana Boonlert, Published on 21/04/2025
» Oranong Chanasit, an activist, took a bakery course to learn how to knead dough in the hope of teaching hilltribe children, but encountered a life-changing experience.
BuzzFeed, Vice woes signal crisis in digital-only media
AFP, Published on 05/05/2023
» NEW YORK: With the closure of BuzzFeed News and bankruptcy looming at Vice, the once promising world of free digital media finds itself at a crossroads, seeing ad revenues dry up at the same time as disappointed investors begin walking away.
Dining out (in Paris)
Guru, Nianne-Lynn Hendricks, Published on 26/04/2023
» In a post-Covid era, so many pleasure palaces have become casualties, and unfortunately Spasso at the Grand Hyatt Erawan Bangkok is one such place.
5 tech predictions for 2023 and beyond
Business, Dr Werner Vogels, Published on 10/01/2023
» With several global crises occupying our daily lives, it's important to see where we can use technology to solve these hard human problems. Today, we have more access to data from wearables, medical devices, environmental sensors, video capture and other connected devices than we have had at any point in the past.
Pandemonium
Life, Kong Rithdee, Published on 30/09/2022
» The first shot of Athena will be discussed in every writing about the film. A bravura choreography of movement that begins with an intimate close-up of a face and ends, after 10 blood-rushing minutes, with an explosion of revolutionary rage -- a la Les Miserables and Do You Hear The People Sing? transported to a predominantly-Muslim Paris suburb -- that opening shot is so hypnotising and immersive in its non-stop kineticism that we're led to forgive that it's also an earnest show-off, a proud enshrinement of style and attitude over everything else. Romain Gavras, a filmmaker known for making music videos for Jay Z and M.I.A, will cement that approach with many similar shots throughout the film -- long, seemingly uninterrupted shots with parkour camerawork full of angry bodies -- more than enough for aspiring filmmakers of the world to slobber over.
A personal reflection on Thailand as a nation
Life, Chris Baker, Published on 20/05/2022
» Historian alone is an inadequate description. Charnvit Kasetsiri is a historian-activist. In 1973, he wrote a pioneering history of Ayutthaya as a Cornell University doctorate, published by Oxford University Press. He taught at Thammasat University for five decades and briefly served as rector. He has presented on Thai history at countless international gatherings. He has promoted the work of his students and colleagues so often that his prefaces for their works fill a fat book.
Big promise, little reward
Life, Tatat Bunnag, Published on 01/04/2022
» Within the first few minutes of Netflix's latest crime thriller Windfall, you realise this is another retro-inspired movie. The style, the colour palette, the music, and even how the title and credits play throughout the opening sequence are reminiscent of mystery thrillers that would fit well with the 40s and 50s. Some of the setups even remind you of an old-school Hitchcockian thriller.