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    Firming it up

    Postbag, Published on 12/11/2023

    » Re: "Bankers allay app concerns", (Business, Nov 9).

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    Brits can still put on a good show

    News, Roger Crutchley, Published on 14/05/2023

    » Considering how depressing the world news has been lately, the coronation of King Charles III last weekend provided a brief diversion. It might not be everybody's cup of tea but the Brits certainly know how to put on a show if a bit of history is involved. They're good at pomp and pageantry and most importantly love a parade with plenty of horses.

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    Bill Nighy, master of misdirection

    Sunday Spotlight, Published on 29/01/2023

    » British actor Bill Nighy was trying to describe how he prepared for his character in the new drama Living. He plays Mr Williams, a buttoned-up, almost catatonically reticent bureaucrat in post-World War II London who, upon learning that he is dying, decides finally to live.

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    The gloved one - or is it two

    Sunday Spotlight, Published on 09/10/2022

    » Alan Garcia starts each workday on a cracked plastic stool, hunched over a small vanity mirror, caking on makeup to lighten his skin.

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    Culture shock and crocodile encounters

    Life, Suwitcha Chaiyong, Published on 22/06/2022

    » Jatenipat Ketpradit, aka JKBOY, works full-time in interior design and spends his leisure time taking photographs in remote areas such as the Altai Mountains in Mongolia, Siberut Island in Indonesia and Ethiopia.

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    Making herstory

    Guru, Pornchai Sereemongkonpol, Published on 28/01/2022

    » Corona can't keep a good queen down. That seems to be the case for Pangina Heals, aka Pan Pan Narkpresert, who's about to make herstory as the first Thai contestant to compete in RuPaul's Drag Race UK VS The World, the first international edition of Emmy-winning reality competition show RuPaul's Drag Race where nine queens from around the world compete for the title of "Queen Of The World".

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    A Summer to Remember

    Guru, Suthivas Tanphaibul, Published on 06/08/2021

    » After a year hiatus, the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games finally kicked off and will conclude on Sunday. More than 10,000 athletes from 206 countries marched joyously in front of thousands of empty seats (due to Covid-19 restrictions), while millions of sports fans cheered from home. This year's motto is "United By Emotion", expressing the power of sport to connect people from diverse backgrounds from all over the globe. Guru has created a timeline of all the memorable moments till the time of going to print, as well as interesting facts about the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games, for your reading pleasure.

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    Filmmaker's dream

    Life, Karnjana Karnjanatawe, Published on 06/05/2021

    » The Serpent, an eight-episode crime drama series screening on Netflix since April, left the audience including me wondering where the film was shot.

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    Anti-coup crackdown takes fatal turn

    News, Larry Jagan, Published on 01/03/2021

    » Myanmar's security forces have unleashed a concerted crackdown on the country's peaceful protesters leaving 23 dead and thousands injured throughout the country in the last two days. In planned pre-emptive strikes, the police moved ruthlessly to disperse and arrest protestors preparing to join yesterday general strike. "They used teargas, stun grenades and fired live ammunition indiscriminately into the crowds," said Soe Soe, a young university student at a protest site told the Bangkok Post.

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    Peace process at risk of disintegrating

    Oped, Larry Jagan, Published on 19/08/2020

    » Myanmar's civilian government has made peace and national reconciliation a central platform of its administration since taking office in early 2016. But after almost five years very little has been achieved and the peace process is yet again precariously poised. The next stage -- the fourth round of the Panglong talks as Aung San Suu Kyi dubbed it after her historic electoral victory five years ago -- is scheduled to start today in the capital Nay Pyi Taw but is in danger of disintegrating into disarray.

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