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Gap's Met Gala denim moment stunning, smart
News, Published on 11/05/2024
» Among the many luxury brands showing off their lavish creations at the Met Gala this week were a handful of more mainstream names. One standout was The Gap Inc, which dressed actress Da'Vine Joy Randolph.
Line of duty
Oped, Postbag, Published on 17/11/2023
» Re: "RTP chief dismisses talk of joint patrols with Chinese police", (BP, Nov 14).
A teenage shooter and accountability
Patcharawalai Sanyanusin, Published on 16/10/2023
» It is hard to believe that a shooting rampage by a teenage student, such as we see in America, would one day happen in our country.
What happened to all those Chinese tourists?
Bloomberg News, Published on 29/07/2023
» Before Covid-19, Malaysia’s luxury mall beneath Kuala Lumpur’s iconic Petronas Towers echoed with the sound of Chinese tourists and their dialects. But recently, during a busy dinner hour, they were missing. Din, the mall’s outlet of famous Taiwanese chain Din Tai Fung, a favourite of Chinese tourists, was half-full with local Malaysians and Middle Eastern customers. When I asked a cashier whether they had served many Chinese lately, she shook her head with a tight smile.
Profiting on faith
Oped, Postbag, Published on 27/08/2022
» Re: “Keeping the faith”, (Business, Aug 22). Absent any supporting statistics, let us take it on faith as reported that “Large numbers of Thais are turning to superstition to help make sense of an increasingly fraught and unstable world”. But is that really an excuse for business to cash in by pandering to wild claims of dubious merit?
Saving the tigers
Oped, Editorial, Published on 16/04/2022
» 'Nong Kwan", a four-month-old tiger cub rescued from wildlife traffickers, has become a darling of animal lovers.
Looking ahead toward Apec 2022
Oped, Natapanu Nopakun, Published on 18/01/2022
» As the new year begins, it is high time to look back at the past year's achievements and, at the same time, to look ahead towards the next. If the Covid-19 pandemic which began in late 2019 and early 2020 took the world by surprise, and 2021 proved to be another year of daunting challenges, 2022 could see countries around the world continue to struggle, trying to open despite the emergence of new variants of the coronavirus, like the current Omicron.
As long as it's a bit better than last year
News, Roger Crutchley, Published on 02/01/2022
» It's that time of the year for columnists to suggest what could be in store for the next 12 months. However, things are so unpredictable at the moment even Nostradamus would struggle to come up with a half-decent forecast. Of course Thailand is not immune to the uncertainty although you wouldn't rule out occasional "misappropriation of funds" or to use the correct technical term, "cooking the books."
Keeping up with crypto
Oped, Editorial, Published on 06/12/2021
» Thailand's digital financial service industry is doing well when giant retail businesses have intergrated cryptocurrency into their business transactions.
Easing Up
Guru, Pornchai Sereemongkonpol, Published on 01/10/2021
» Today marks the reopening of 10 more business venues in 29 dark red provinces as restrictions against Covid-19 have been further eased. I know you're going out today (it's TGIF after payday, after all) and here are a few highlighted measures to know before you head out.