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  • WORLD

    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.

  • THAILAND

    AirAsia goes for glorious 'gourmet' food

    Business, Boonsong Kositchotethana, Published on 24/05/2017

    » After 16 years of strenuous focus on low fares and network growth, AirAsia is giving greater attention to the sale of food onboard.

  • WORLD

    Moscow detached from the fighting

    Sunday Spotlight, Published on 18/09/2022

    » On a recent evening in Red Square, a corps of elite paratroopers dressed in camouflage performed a battle-like dance with pyrotechnics. An Egyptian performer dressed as a pharaoh rode back and forth in a chariot wielding an ankh, the ancient Egyptian symbol of life, as a band played Katyusha, a Soviet-era patriotic war song.

  • ADVANCED NEWS

    Slow travel to far away places

    Jon Fernquest, Published on 19/08/2011

    » Remote areas in Nan, Loei and Mae Hong Son, as well as green hotels targeted at the now retiring "baby boom" generation.

  • OPINION

    How did Japan become so cheap?

    Oped, Published on 09/03/2022

    » Every month, the Bank for International Settlements calculates and publishes the real and nominal effective exchange rates for major currencies. The most recent data, released in mid-February, contained a shock for Japan. They show that the yen's real effective exchange rate (Reer, representing roughly the purchasing power of the currency) is now as low as it was in the early 1970s when the yen was first floated following the collapse of the Bretton Woods and Smithsonian systems of fixed exchange rates.

  • BUSINESS

    AR and VR: The new productivity tools beyond gaming and marketing

    Business, Published on 01/05/2017

    » All of the excitement around virtual reality and augmented reality (VR and AR) these days is spurring consumer marketing teams into action to ride the wave of this "next big thing". Virtual reality works by placing high-resolution screens over the user's eyes, occluding their view of their real-world surroundings. The nature of VR necessitates that the experience takes place in a safe, predefined area. To create greater immersion, many VR headsets also support audio. VR is not a mobile technology in the conventional sense: you can't put on a VR headset and walk down the street.

  • WORLD

    No mouldy ice cream in China, says McDonald's

    Reuters, Published on 27/07/2017

    » SHANGHAI -- Viral photos and news reports in the United States allegedly showing a mouldy ice cream maker at a US outlet of McDonald's Corp have prompted swift action from the fast-food giant thousands of miles away: in China.

  • OPINION

    'Charlie Hebdo' refuses to give up

    News, Published on 05/01/2016

    » The French satirical weekly, Charlie Hebdo, propelled to global notoriety when its cartoonists were shot dead by jihadist gunmen a year ago on Thursday, fears it has been abandoned in its struggle to "laugh at everything", one of the survivors of the attack said.

  • BUSINESS

    Visa going touch-free at tollbooths

    Business, Nop Tephaval, Published on 18/12/2014

    » Visa International (Asia-Pacific) plans to increase contactless transactions or wave cards in this country and is cooperating with the Expressway Authority of Thailand (Exat) to introduce the payment system at tollbooths.

  • THAILAND

    Flights grounded ahead of typhoon

    Published on 06/12/2014

    » MANILA — Haunted by Typhoon Haiyan's massive devastation last year, more than 600,000 people fled Philippine villages and the military went on full alert Saturday to brace for a powerful storm only hours away from the country's eastern coast.

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