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  Getting soft power right

  Life, Published on 08/01/2024

  » After three months in office, the Srettha Thavisin government has raved on about populist policies in the guise of digital wallets and soft power projects that will create income to boost our declining economy. With optimism, we learned that Paetongtarn Shinawatra, Pheu Thai party leader and head of the National Soft Power Strategy Committee (NSPSC), has drafted a budget of 5.1 billion baht to boost festivals and creative industries. It is welcoming news to hear this government is priortising art, music, literature, design, fashion, film, food, games, sports and festivals as essential sources for the creative economy. Where this enormous chunk of budget will come from, like digital wallets, remains to be seen.

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  ‘Summer Sonic' could draw 350,000

  News, Mongkol Bangprapa, Published on 27/03/2024

  » Prime Minister Srettha Thavisin is confident that Summer Sonic, a music festival from Japan that will be organised in Bangkok in August, will attract 350,000 people out, just as it regularly does in Japan.

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  'Personal reasons' prompt Sitala to leave H1-KEY

  News, Poramet Tangsathaporn, Published on 26/05/2022

  » Sitala Wongkrachang, a daughter of late actor and director-turned-activist Saran­yu Wongkrachang, has left her Korean girl group, citing personal reasons, says the South Korean label GLG.

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  Blinded by the light

  Life, Kaona Pongpipat, Published on 25/05/2016

  » As stated in the text, "Oscillation", an exhibition at Chulalongkorn University's Art Center which opened earlier this month, "considers a state of actively moving back and forth between multiple reference points and ideas, during which meanings are produced and reproduced".

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  The return of Cixi

  Life, Pichaya Svasti, Published on 30/04/2015

  » Cixi Taihou The Musical, a stage adaptation of the historical novel penned by MR Kukrit Pramoj, is back to entertain audiences next month with a change of cast.

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  Lessons in history

  Life, Published on 05/01/2015

  » A coup d’etat can bring out different reactions from people — relief, distress or even joy. For Thongthong Chandrangsu, former permanent-secretary of Prime Minister’s Office under the ousted Yingluck Shinawatra’s government, the putsch provided him the time to wind down from work. One of the country’s leading law experts, Thongthong is adviser to the Prime Minister’s Office and helps the Council of State’s legal committee vet drafts of bills.

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  Viewing conflicted visions

  Life, Pimrapee Thungkasemvathana, Published on 09/04/2014

  » The WTF Cafe & Gallery has pitted “red shirt” sympathisers against “other-coloured Shirt” proponents in its art arena and until April 27, is set to play moderator.

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  Tangmo's one point, Suthep's shoot, Mo patches it up

  News, Mae Moo, Published on 16/02/2014

  » Buying herself a fight

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  Tangmo's pai fest, The big question, Hopeful parents to be

  News, Mae Moo, Published on 23/02/2014

  » Now it's personal

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  Silent no more

  Life, Chris Baker, Published on 17/03/2014

  » Why have Northeasterners become such enthusiastic supporters for Thaksin Shinawatra, the Pheu Thai party and the red-shirt movement? Charles Keyes first arrived in the Northeast in 1962 as a research student in rural anthropology. After the 2010 crackdown on red shirts in Bangkok, he realised he had to rethink all he had learned and written about the region over the last 48 years. This book is the result.

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