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The final call
Life, Pattramon Sukprasert, Published on 28/05/2015
» The curtains are coming down on La Fête 2015, the annual Franco-Thai cultural co-operation festival, as it will be held for the 11th and final time from June 3-20. Next year, according to the Embassy of France, it's likely that shows and performances will be spread out all-year-round.
Butterflies and solitude
Life, Kaona Pongpipat, Published on 20/05/2015
» The opening of 100 Tonson Gallery's "Chatchai Puipia: Sites Of Solitude. Still-Life, Self-Portraiture, And The Living Archive" last month seemed to have been an unmissable event for every prominent figure in the Bangkok art scene, except for Chatchai himself. It's not that there was something urgent he had to attend to; he had no intention of going, not when the show was being set up, nor when it was running.
Illustrating the ideal
Life, Pimrapee Thungkasemvathana, Published on 10/02/2015
» As a child, Tatchamapan Chanchamrassang, aka Pomme Chan, was a nerd, she says. She used to read manga comics and then she starting making up her own stories and drawing her own manga. She loved Ai Yazawa's Nana.
Misiem's final sculpture stolen
Online Reporters, Published on 06/01/2015
» The last sculpture by late artist Misiem Yipintsoi has disappeared from her sculpture park.
Opposition to amnesty bill escalates
Online Reporters, Published on 04/11/2013
» At least 30,000 protesters against the amnesty bill converged on Bangkok streets on Monday to demand the draft legislation pushed through the House by the Pheu Thai Party be immediately dropped.
Thai classical music innovator: Utis Narksawat
Jon Fernquest, Published on 29/03/2013
» After a PhD in agricultural economics, he studied with music legend Luang Pradit Phairo & went on to invent new instruments & styles of playing.
Thai professor wins in US Supreme Court
Terry Fredrickson, Published on 21/03/2013
» Dr Supap Kirtsaeng of Silpakorn University was more persuasive than the best lawyers a US publisher could find, convincing US Supreme Court justices that his book-selling business was legal.
Coconut oil for health & beauty
Jon Fernquest, Published on 11/10/2011
» This company won the Prime Minister's Export Award this year & has established distribution networks in Russia, China & Japan, does R&D also.
Big trees of Bangkok
Jon Fernquest, Published on 31/03/2011
» The older and bigger a tree gets, the more people seem to love them...until one day they are thoughtlessly cut down.