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    Making better connections

    Life, Parisa Pichitmarn, Published on 21/05/2018

    » When the new term starts this August, Chulalongkorn University students will be witnessing more tangible, digital developments taking shape as the "pillar of the nation" edges towards its ambitions of producing more worldly students and digitised resources. Now two years into his administration as president of the university, Professor Bundhit Eua-Aporn is continuing onward with his "CU Transformation" and the fruits of his plans are starting to take shape.

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    Soi Sesame

    Life, Parisa Pichitmarn, Published on 05/10/2017

    » Ryan Dillon knows tables around the world intimately. "There's usually a lot of gum," he says from under a table at the Siam Kempinski's business centre. The American muppeteer was sitting on the floor under the table with his arms raised -- a position where he spends most of his time as the performer of Sesame Street's red furball Elmo. Recently in town last month, Dillon and Elmo were out and about in Bangkok to promote the new season of Sesame Street, which airs on MCOT Kids every weekend on 8am.

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    Sampling the splendid

    Muse, Parisa Pichitmarn, Published on 24/06/2017

    » Could you imagine a time when Bangkok was not flooded by dessert cafés, and when parfaits were considered revolutionary? For a moment when you'd be hard-pressed to find a dessert destination that served anything besides ice cream, you'd have to take a time machine and go back 10 years -- to before Kacha Bros came along to dot our landscape with parfait café Sfree and roll-cake authority Kyo Roll En.

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    Glamour guy

    Muse, Parisa Pichitmarn, Published on 05/11/2016

    » The things Chavanon Caisiri says are as much of a knockout as the voluminous skirts and body-hugging dresses he designs. Yet talking to him feels very real-deal, and if it's anything like the relationship he has with his clients -- that of dressmaker and customer -- it's one without airs or the kind of pretension that usually surrounds fashion brands that have grown into larger-than-life powerhouses.

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    From chiffon to chocolate 

    Life, Parisa Pichitmarn, Published on 04/09/2015

    » Among the many buzz-fuelled collaborations that pack today's retail landscape to thrill and tempt consumers, designer stardust tends to work like magic at bringing a new shine to prosaic and eternally present products.

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    The international voice

    Life, Parisa Pichitmarn, Published on 26/06/2015

    » A thousand unread messages are waiting for Nida "Rimi" Doowa in the hilariously named chat group "Choom Tang Siang Tong" (Junction Of Golden Voices) on Line. Her fellow contestants from The Voice Thailand Season 2 are clearly a chatty bunch, but the Thai-born Indian smiles at the thought of other things the show has brought her in launching her music career.

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    Laos en vogue

    Life, Parisa Pichitmarn, Published on 14/03/2014

    » They say to buy real French haute couture starts at around a million — something that also applies to Lao haute couture as well. Here, however, it’s more like 1 million kip (4,000 baht) we’re talking about. And that, thankfully, is only about a month’s worth of lunches, as opposed to a lifetime of lunches, dinners, breakfasts and snacks — for the whole village. Much of the Lao fashion scene still operates within the confines of traditional culture and propriety, but nevertheless, it is an industry that recently got its official milestone beginning.

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    Cupboard dynasties

    Life, Parisa Pichitmarn, Published on 31/01/2014

    » A nose for business

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    Smoke and mirrors

    Life, Parisa Pichitmarn, Published on 16/10/2013

    » Magic. In an era of smartphones that can perform once-impossible tasks, the word doesn't quite evoke the same allure and mystique that it once did. But despite its diminishing appeal as a form of mass entertainment, the art of illusion still has a few rabbits left in its hat. In July this year, 13-year-old Thirawat Kongnugul glided past young wizards from all over the world to bag second place in the International Brotherhood of Magic's yearly Stage Contest in Arizona _ proof that Thai magicians still have a few tricks up their collective sleeve (see accompanying story).

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    Beyond the call of duty

    Life, Parisa Pichitmarn, Published on 05/07/2013

    » Movies and television series have always romanticised aspects of the human condition and careers are just one of the frequently visited universal subjects. Channel 3's faddish lakhon Suparbburuth Chutathep follows the gilded lives of five blue-blood brothers. As the series draws to a close this weekend, we remove our rose-tinted spectacles and talk to five professionals to find out what the lead characters' careers are like in real life.

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