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Seasonal picks
Life, Anchalee Kongrut, Published on 23/01/2012
» A quartet of apposite reads for the lunar new year
Finding faith in few words
Life, Anchalee Kongrut, Published on 14/02/2012
» If God is great and benevolent, why does s/he cause pain and calamity to Earth in the form of natural disaster? Those who cannot find answers turn to the probable empirical evidence called science that to some certain extent demystifies natural phenomena.
Writer's wait is over
Life, Anchalee Kongrut, Published on 16/03/2012
» When his retirement from diplomatic service came in October 2008, Prabhassorn Sevikul never thought about taking a rest.
The new capitalist
Life, Anchalee Kongrut, Published on 27/03/2012
» Ellis, who is of Danish-British extraction, also wears another hat, beautifully. She is author of the famous business book, The New Pioneers.
Bucking a trend
Life, Anchalee Kongrut, Published on 03/04/2012
» E-books have become more than a fashion statement for lovers of new gadgets on the market. For people in the publishing industry everywhere, including Thailand, it's seen as a medium imperative to their survival, the way they conduct business and tap the opportunities it will spawn.
Moon in the gutter
Life, Anchalee Kongrut, Published on 06/04/2012
» The Publishers & Booksellers Association of Thailand (Pubat) will surely hate me. But I am not a big fan of the national book fair.
Factions and short fuses
Life, Anchalee Kongrut, Published on 21/05/2012
» The art of deception is at the core of Lab Luang Prang V, the latest work of non-fiction by Wassana Nanuam, a veteran reporter who's been covering the military beat for this newspaper for more than 20 years now.
Don't speak: the art of toeing the line in China
Life, Anchalee Kongrut, Published on 19/10/2012
» The most-heard line across China in the past week was ''Have you ever read a Mo Yan book?'' The question echoed in walkways, elevators and my office canteen. In Beijing, his books have been sold out since last Friday, shortly after he was announced the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature. The Wall Street Journal immediately ran an excerpt of his new book which will be launched in January, while the share price of Xinhua Media, a partner of Shanghai Literature & Art, one of Mo's publishers, rose 10% in a single day's trade.
Let leaders sit in the democracy of the traffic jam
Life, Anchalee Kongrut, Published on 14/12/2012
» I remembered feeling startled after hearing my Chinese friend mention motorcades _ with their resulting traffic diversions or blockages to allow official vehicles to pass _ exist in China.
Never lost in translation
Life, Anchalee Kongrut, Published on 15/02/2013
» A Western woman recently asked me which books she should read in order to understand Thailand. The reading list is not hard to suggest. The problem is that many works on Thailand, by my definition, have not been translated.