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'Queen of Luk Thung' dies at 85
News, Published on 07/04/2025
» Pongsri Woranuch, the first "Queen of Luk Thung" (Thai country music) and a National Artist in the Performing Arts (folk singing), died peacefully on Sunday at the age of 85.
Defrocked monk Yantra Amaro dies
News, Published on 11/03/2025
» Controversial sect monk, Yantra Amaro, has died at his California monastery at the age of 73.
Roberta Flack, American singer and Grammy winner, dies
Reuters, Published on 25/02/2025
» NEW YORK — Roberta Flack, the silky-voiced Grammy-winning singer whose sultry ballads "The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face" and "Killing Me Softly with His Song" topped the charts in the 1970s, died on Monday at the age of 88, her publicist said.
Veteran 'Bangkok Post' journo Busrin dies at 55
News, Post Reporters, Published on 24/02/2025
» The Bangkok Post mourns the passing of Busrin Treerapongpichit, a veteran journalist and former Business Editor, who passed away peacefully on Sunday aged 55 after a courageous battle with cancer.
In a political year, some deaths spoke to the struggles for democracy
Published on 01/01/2025
» In a year saturated with politics in an ever more polarised world, where the obituary many feared they’d be reading would be that of democracy itself, one death seemed to encapsulate the historical moment we’re in: that of Alexei Navalny.
Singer, national artist Santi Lunpae dies, aged 88
Online Reporters, Published on 10/12/2024
» Nationally acclaimed singer Santi Lunpe passed away on Tuesday at Chulalongkorn Memorial Hospital at the age of 88, according to the Department of Cultural Promotion.
Former editor dies at 61
News, Post Reporters, Published on 06/12/2024
» Former Bangkok Post sports editor Wanchai Rujawongsanti passed away on Wednesday morning after a long battle with lung cancer. He was 61.
Don't write the obituary of the lunch hour just yet
Oped, Published on 26/11/2024
» Rewatching Modern Times the other day, I realised it's only a matter of time before something like the Billows Feeding Machine gets shilled on TikTok Shop.
Fujimori's Peru and the price of neoliberal success
Oped, Published on 10/10/2024
» The script of Latin American politics too often reads like a "dictator novel," and on Sept 11, another chapter drew to a close with the death of Alberto Fujimori. As the president who most defined -- and divided -- modern Peru, his legacy remains a topic of heated debate. One version of Fujimori's epitaph would commend his economics and condemn his politics, but the deeper lesson his life story offers may be that it is impossible to separate the two.
Visionary behind Phi Phi Model dies
News, Post Reporters, Published on 04/10/2024
» Former Hat Noppharat Thara-Mu Ko Phi Phi National Park chief Sarayuth Tanthien, the creator of the Phi Phi Model, passed away on Wednesday.