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Brazil awarded 2027 Women’s World Cup
Published on 17/05/2024
» Brazil was declared host of the 2027 Women’s World Cup after winning a vote at the annual Fifa Congress on Friday in Bangkok, beating the joint bid of Belgium, the Netherlands and Germany to become the first South American country picked to stage the tournament.
Guru's Weekly Buzz: May 17-23
Guru, Published on 17/05/2024
» Guru By Bangkok Post's pick of the most exciting products, activities, food and travel to indulge in.
Israeli girl dies after falling out of songthaew in Phuket
Achadthaya Chuenniran, Published on 17/05/2024
» PHUKET: A five-year-old girl from Israel has died after falling out of a songthaew during a visit to this resort island with her family.
Your horoscope for May 17-23
Guru, Chaiyospol Hemwijit, Published on 17/05/2024
» Your spot-on horoscope for work, money and relationship from Guru by the Bangkok Post's famously accurate fortune teller. Let's see how you will fare this week and beyond.
China building world's first 'dedicated' drone carrier, satellite images suggest
Published on 17/05/2024
» HONG KONG: The new aircraft carrier, the building of which has not been publicised by Beijing, could underline China's aims to advance the military use of drones and their deployment in battle.
Cannes asks: Cinema anyone?
Life, Kong Rithdee, Published on 17/05/2024
» To remind us that we're here because of cinema, the 77th Cannes Film Festival did an uncanny double bill on its first day. The festival opened on Tuesday and will run until May 25. On the first afternoon, before the ritzy kerfuffle of the opening red carpet, Cannes screened the first part of the restored 1927 silent film Napoleon, an audacious epic of the French Revolution by Abel Gance, who 97 years ago tested the limits of what cinema could do with exhilarating results (the entire film runs for seven hours; we were treated to the first four here).
Millennial marvel
Life, Kanokporn Chanasongkram, Published on 17/05/2024
» Swiss watchmaker IWC Schaffhausen launches its first secular perpetual calendar in the leap year of 2024. An engineering feat, the Portugieser Eternal Calendar automatically takes into account the Gregorian calendar's leap year exception rules.
Dials of style
Life, Published on 17/05/2024
» Launched in 2003, IWC's first Portugieser with a perpetual calendar boasted a moon phase display with an accuracy of 577.5 years.
Taylor Swift can learn a lot from Billie Eilish
News, Published on 17/05/2024
» Not long ago, I lamented the lack of climate anthems. Perhaps we'll find one on Hit Me Hard and Soft, the third studio album from Billie Eilish that's due to drop today.
Activists demand quick probe into jailed peer’s death
Post Reporters, Published on 16/05/2024
» Young political activists have asked the government to quickly and transparently investigate the death in custody of their colleague Netiporn “Boong” Sanesangkhom and release political detainees.