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Ask Yourself: Do i feel plucky?
B Magazine, Published on 19/02/2012
» Peng Ratchaworapong admits his ukulele obsession has gotten the better of him. ''I probably own about 16 now,'' he says. ''But they are so small and so cute right? They don't take up much space. Think about it like a woman and her shoes.''
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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.
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A nickname that makes no sense? Priceless
B Magazine, Andrew Biggs, Published on 26/05/2013
» Greetings from Priceless Sydney, in the glorious island nation of Australia. That's right, dear reader. None of the parochial cheap digs at Thai culture that normally pepper this column, as your correspondent writes from his salubrious hotel room in the heart of Priceless Sydney.
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Revenge or reconciliation?
Life, Kong Rithdee, Published on 25/04/2014
» The wounds of war fester with time. Eric Lomax was serving in the British army in Singapore during World War II when the Japanese invaded and captured him. Along with other Allied soldiers, he was sent by train to the POW camp in Kanchanaburi, where he endured the ordeal of forced labour in the construction of the Death Railway, that memorial of death and barbarism whose name still rings with a funereal aura today.
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Shooting the Death Railway
Life, Published on 25/04/2014
» Thailand has been featured prominently in many Hollywood movies — actually at this moment, there’s a film festival showing films that were shot here. From The Beach to The Hangover 2 and Lost In Thailand, the country has become a character in many stories, the latest being in The Railway Man, a World War II drama starring Colin Firth and Nicole Kidman.
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Where have all the gardeners gone?
B Magazine, Normita Thongtham, Published on 08/06/2014
» Is the Chatuchak midweek plant market dying a slow but natural death? Last Wednesday I went to see how the market was faring after the latest coup d’etat, and found it to be just a shadow of its old self.
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Theatre of dreams in the northern capital
Life, Published on 14/10/2014
» Promise of an exotic cultural experience amid the streetside hawkers of Chiang Mai's Night Bazaar always falls well short of expectations. The scene among this shopping zone differs little from dozens of other such sites across the country. For a city that relies so heavily on its unique historic identity as the main selling point, Chiang Mai's Night Bazaar leaves much to be desired.
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The fine art of cultural preservation
Life, Karnjana Karnjanatawe, Published on 16/04/2015
» Borvornvate Rungrujee, director-general of the Fine Arts Department, has an ambitious plan: every year for the next 10 years he will submit one cultural site to be considered for Unesco's World Heritage List.
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The hunt for the lost horizon
B Magazine, Published on 05/07/2015
» Absolute whiteness descends, as a spring snowstorm transforms cascading mountains, pine forests and a seemingly endless sky into a horizon that has suddenly become lost.
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