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  • ADVANCED NEWS

    Apple's Steve Jobs is dead at 56

    Terry Fredrickson, Published on 06/10/2011

    » Apple on Wednesday announced the death of its visionary co-founder Steve Jobs, at age 56. Here some information on his death and life.

  • ADVANCED NEWS

    "Free education" not really free

    Jon Fernquest, Published on 17/02/2012

    » Test scores & education quality falling. Lack of accountability the problem, not money, 20% of govt budget to education, more than ASEAN neighbors.

  • ADVANCED NEWS

    Tiny islands everyone wants

    Jon Fernquest, Published on 17/07/2012

    » Conflicting claims of China & Asean to tiny oil rich islands turned Cambodian summit last week into China-US power struggle.

  • ADVANCED NEWS

    US govt whistleblower Snowden: Who is he?

    Published on 10/06/2013

    » After string of jobs with CIA, Snowden turns around & reveals US govt secret collection of info on US citizens (email, video, chat, videos, photos, file transfers, logins, social networks.

  • OPINION

    Freezing the odds

    Life, Usnisa Sukhsvasti, Published on 25/08/2014

    » If you haven't heard of the Ice Bucket Challenge by now, you are either a hermit living in a cave in Tibet or Sleeping Beauty, just waking up from a century of slumber in the highest room of the tallest tower of a magical castle.

  • THAILAND

    Obec denies 'Thaksin' cut from book

    News, Lamphai Intathep, Published on 17/09/2014

    » The Education Ministry has insisted it never ordered officials to erase the name of former prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra from history textbooks.

  • BUSINESS

    Andaman Appeal

    Asia focus, Published on 20/10/2014

    » Krabi, a peaceful paradise in southern Thailand, has become an alluring destination for international tourists in recent years due to its distinctive charms and plentiful natural attractions.

  • LIFE

    Illustrating the ideal

    Life, Pimrapee Thungkasemvathana, Published on 10/02/2015

    » As a child, Tatchamapan Chanchamrassang, aka Pomme Chan, was a nerd, she says. She used to read manga comics and then she starting making up her own stories and drawing her own manga. She loved Ai Yazawa's Nana.

  • WORLD

    US shopping mall culture — dying or just changing?

    Business, Published on 16/02/2015

    » Cierra Dorsey has happy memories of hanging out at the mall as a teenage girl, an adolescent rite of passage under threat in parts of the US as old-fashioned malls close their doors.

  • LIFE

    A life full of changes in rhythm

    Life, Published on 13/04/2015

    » When Philip Glass was 15, his father, who owned a record store in Baltimore, put him in charge of buying classical albums. Glass was then a precocious freshman at the University of Chicago and taking the first steps on the path to becoming a composer. When he learned of a new recording of the complete Schoenberg string quartets played by the Juilliard String Quartet, he ordered four copies. Aghast, his father asked if he was trying to put him out of business. To teach his son a lesson, he told him to put the recordings of these atonal chamber works on the shelves with the more mainstream classical records and report back when the last copy had been sold. That took seven years. The lesson Glass learned? "I can sell anything if I have enough time."

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