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Srettha: Now he knows why Taylor Swift skips Thailand
Online Reporters, Published on 16/02/2024
» Prime Minister Srettha Thavisin has pledged to bring superstar concerts to Thailand after learning why popular artists like American pop megastar Taylor Swift did not put Thailand on their world tour itinerary.
France's bookstores fight for survival after coronavirus lockdown
Life, Published on 24/05/2020
» Neighbourhood bookstores in France survived the television and later the advent of online shopping. Then came the coronavirus lockdown, an eight-week-long hiatus that has weighed heavily on profit margins and threatens the survival of some stores.
Anwar Ibrahim is back in Bangkok
Life, Published on 20/11/2018
» The champion of reformasi (reform), a prisoner of more than 10 years and finally the prime minister-in-waiting of Malaysia, Anwar Ibrahim has charted the most remarkable political career the region has ever seen.
The rise of Hitler from dunderhead to demagogue
Life, Published on 30/09/2016
» How did Adolf Hitler -- described by one eminent magazine editor in 1930 as a "half-insane rascal", a "pathetic dunderhead", a "nowhere fool", a "big mouth" -- rise to power in the land of Goethe and Beethoven? What persuaded millions of ordinary Germans to embrace him and his doctrine of hatred? How did this "most unlikely pretender to high state office" achieve absolute power in a once-democratic country and set it on a course of monstrous horror?
Academy Awards take on issues beyond #OscarsSoWhite
Associated Press, Published on 29/02/2016
» LOS ANGELES -- Hollywood's diversity crisis has loomed large over awards season and the big question going into the 88th annual Academy Awards was whether it would dominate the ceremony, too. It did, of course, but it wasn't alone.
Political musings
Life, Published on 11/01/2016
» Politicians are sometimes regarded with disdain, but Asst Prof Trirong Suwankhiri from the Democrat Party is often exempt from such an unfriendly regard. The public, especially those who have grown up observing the politics of the 1980s and 90s, remember him as "Doctor Sam Sri", which refers to the meaning of his name -- "the Thai flag with three colours". A true orator, Trirong's parliamentary debates were full of humour and gags and delivered in his signature thick southern accent. What sets him apart is not just his comical nature, but his relatively corruption-free image.
Endless struggle
Life, Bernard Trink, Published on 19/08/2013
» Of all the conflicts of human history, that between the haves and have-nots is the most enduring. The owners determined to keep the profit, the workers demanding a better wage. Both feel in the right. When negotiations are fruitless, each resort to force. Strikes. Strike-breakers. Broken heads. Broken bodies.
Ploy's taxing times, No time for ladyboys, Get addicted to love
News, Mae Moo, Published on 09/09/2012
» Actress Cherman ''Ploy'' Boonyasak says she is now willing to venture outdoors again after a torrid couple of weeks in which the public rounded on her for pulling strings to evade paying taxes.
In the eyes of a 'TigerGeneral'
B Magazine, Ezra Kyrill Erker, Published on 29/01/2012
» On the cover it's a memoir, the foreword says the book is indebted to its main subject and the copyright page claims it's a work of fiction. The Tiger General is certainly too accurate in its historical, cultural and espionage details for the characters to be entirely invented, and with a complete absorption in time and place difficult to pull off with such precision in fiction.
Industry welcomes tax breaks for travellers
Business, Chadamas Chinmaneevong, Published on 03/06/2010
» Tourism businesses have applauded the government's proposal to offer tax incentives to local travellers to help stimulate the struggling industry.