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  • LIFE

    Fibre of their beings

    Life, Parisa Pichitmarn, Published on 14/05/2013

    » Italian luxury fashion house Ermenegildo Zegna is a marvellous example of successful integration between two countries. As a long-time supporter of Australia's wool industry, the economic relationship between both countries is as strong as ever _ with last year's two-way trade amounting to US$6.2 billion (180 billion baht).

  • LIFE

    Farewell fights

    Life, Parisa Pichitmarn, Published on 12/02/2014

    » ‘This will all be bulldozed,” said Maj Gen Surakai Chattumart, director of the Army Welfare Department and Lumpini stadium master. “It will become complete emptiness — I guess it does feel a bit like seeing your home destroyed. It’s like losing something, but if it’s for the better, it’s something we should all accept.”

  • LIFE

    Are these really the ‘Golden Years’?

    Life, Parisa Pichitmarn, Published on 14/04/2014

    » Yesterday marked Thailand’s Day of the Elderly, and if Thai customs have conditioned you just right, one of the most disconcerting sights you could possibly witness is of an elderly person still working. Our mentality that we should always care for our parents in old age makes us shudder at the reality of old folks still toiling away to make ends meet.

  • LIFE

    Man & myth

    Life, Parisa Pichitmarn, Published on 04/07/2014

    » Michael Uslan believes in mythologies and the gods and demons that inhabit them.

  • LIFE

    Quest for lost love takes to the road

    Life, Parisa Pichitmarn, Published on 19/09/2014

    » It doesn't feel like a Bollywood movie and for that reason alone Finding Fanny may attract a more international, albeit still slightly niche, audience than most of the mainstream films made in India. There are no extravagant dance routines here, nor glitzy, museum-quality costumes; just a road trip and a handful of loveable personalities pondering life.

  • OPINION

    With abundance comes indifference 

    Life, Parisa Pichitmarn, Published on 03/12/2014

    » When you come from a third-world country but grew up in the West, or any other country "better off" than your own, far too long for your own good, the comparing game begins. Sometimes, it brings about a seed of discontentment with your current existence, although most of the time it's just a lot of whining. There is clearly lots to moan and gripe about in Thailand, to the point I sometimes find Kuwait more attractive by comparison. 

  • LIFE

    Filthy rich, and loving it

    Life, Parisa Pichitmarn, Published on 10/08/2015

    » Days of back-breaking labour in the desolate boonies, farming for their lives, is a stale cliché concerning the Chinese. Women are no longer under some ring of patriarchal oppression and they contemptuously shun haute couture dresses bedecked with phoenix and dragon embroidery. This is a new and brave China we are talking about -- they are not just crazy rich -- they are China Rich, as Kevin Kwan's second book title aptly coins it. 

  • LIFE

    Silence is the enemy

    Life, Parisa Pichitmarn, Published on 25/11/2015

    » The course of Linor Abargil's life has been shaped by two extremes -- she was raped at knifepoint at 18 and six weeks later she was crowned Miss World 1998. Her story of survival and how she got her rapist a 16-year sentence in jail has turned Abargil into a household shero in her homeland Israel, as well as a globe-trotting advocate fighting against sexual violence. The 35-year-old has spoken about it extensively, probably over a hundred times all over the world in various centres and interviews -- not that it becomes any easier each time.

  • LIFE

    Daddy cool

    Muse, Parisa Pichitmarn, Published on 05/12/2015

    » You are prone to catching the fashion bug when you have a father who would “change his outfit four times a day, even if all he did was sit on the porch”, Pusit Patthanaprakan says of his own dressy dad.

  • LIFE

    Bollywood's still lovestruck by the industry's supercouple

    Life, Parisa Pichitmarn, Published on 25/12/2015

    » You really can't help but think that Shahrukh Khan takes the love the world has for him for granted when he shows up in yet another slapstick-stupid kind of masala where one man can take out a gang of goons single-handedly. The goofy thud and whack sound effects are insufferable, as is the toy-like colour palette of the sets (depending on your level of sophistication), but besides that, this most anticipated Indian blockbuster of the year is not as bad as the trailer makes it look.  

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