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  • News & article

    Targeted handouts

    Oped, Postbag, Published on 18/08/2023

    » Re: "Hotels eager for handouts to have tourism category", (BP, Aug 16).

  • News & article

    Snakes can do good

    News, Published on 29/08/2022

    » Re: "Snake encounter reported every 15 minutes in Bangkok," (Online, Aug 27).

  • News & article

    BTS may get pass from military service under minister's plan

    Life, Published on 06/05/2022

    » A South Korean government minister has called for exempting K-pop group BTS from mandatory military service, as the nation remains divided over preferential treatment for the megastars.

  • News & article

    Year of Turbulence

    Asia focus, Published on 27/12/2021

    » Pandemic drags on recovery: In the early stages of the Covid-19 pandemic in 2020, many Asian countries had enviable success, avoiding large-scale outbreaks and mass deaths. But the arrival of the more transmissible Delta variant this year and sluggish vaccine rollouts compounded by low availability sent cases surging. Combined with poor monitoring and easy movement among countries, often unofficially, Southeast Asia became a virus hotspot. The ballooning health crisis collided with churning political discontent in the case of Myanmar, Thailand and Malaysia. Economically, the new wave of infections, and attendant restrictions imposed to curb the spread, stalled recoveries. After nearly two years of strict border controls, many countries started to loosen up and live with Covid. But the rise of the Omicron variant now threatens to scuttle those tentative reopening plans and usher in a third year of economic anxiety.

  • News & article

    Don't let it be a train in vain

    Oped, Editorial, Published on 12/02/2022

    » The affordability, usability and efficiency of Bangkok's mass-transit system leaves much to be desired.

  • News & article

    Lessons from Korea on soft power

    Life, Arusa Pisuthipan, Published on 28/03/2022

    » South Korean actor Lee Jung-jae recently bagged the Best Actor title at the 27th Critics Choice Awards in Los Angeles earlier this month. This makes him the first Korean actor to take home the Best Actor accolade in the Drama Series category. Lee is known internationally for his lead role in the nine-episode survival drama Squid Game.

  • News & article

    Riding the South Korean wave

    Life, Suwitcha Chaiyong, Published on 28/12/2021

    » Looking back on the year in music, the global phenomenon BTS helped propel the fan base expansion of K-pop groups into the United States. BTS, the seven-member boy band, continues to break recording history and open new frontiers for Asian artists. In March, IFPI, the organisation that represents the recorded music industry worldwide, named BTS as its Global Recording Artist of the Year 2020. The septet won over Taylor Swift, Drake, The Weeknd and Billie Eilish, who ranked second to fifth place respectively. The boy band was the first Asian artist to win the IFPT Global Recording Artist of the Year Award.

  • News & article

    Ex-Austria envoy is new ombudsman

    News, Post Reporters, Published on 14/09/2021

    » Politics: The Senate yesterday selected former diplomat Songsak Saicheua as an ombudsman.

  • News & article

    Book a date

    Asia focus, Pattama Kuentak, Published on 07/06/2021

    » With a degree in English literature under his belt, John Brown never expected to become a businessman, let alone the CEO of one of the largest travel booking platforms in Asia, Agoda.

  • News & article

    Road to where?

    Oped, Postbag, Published on 02/05/2020

    » Re: "Cut govt some slack", (PostBag, April 29).

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