SEARCH

Showing 1-10 of 62 results

  • OPINION

    Are scientific breakthroughs on the decline?

    News, Published on 27/12/2023

    » This year had barely begun when scientists got some jolting news. On Jan 4, a paper appeared in Nature claiming that disruptive scientific findings have been waning since 1945. An accompanying graph showed all fields on a steep downhill slide.

  • LIFE

    All things in Harmony

    Life, Published on 14/11/2023

    » Barry Manilow is superstitious. Such a statement may come as a surprise to anyone familiar with the 80-year-old pop legend's career, with decades of hits, endless Las Vegas residencies and international fame as a still-smooth crooner who wrote the songs that made the whole world sing.

  • LIFE

    Literature Festival highlights regional narratives

    Life, Published on 02/11/2023

    » The "Bangkok Literature Festival" returns with a platform to spotlight Southeast Asia in the literary world, at Neilson Hays Library, Surawong Road, on Saturday and Sunday, from 9am to 6pm.

  • OPINION

    Will India be a new economic superpower?

    Oped, Published on 11/08/2023

    » In March 1985, the Wall Street Journal showered India's new prime minister, Rajiv Gandhi, with its highest praise. In an editorial titled "Rajiv Reagan", the newspaper compared the 40-year-old Gandhi to "another famous tax cutter we know", and declared that deregulation and tax cuts had triggered a "minor revolution" in India.

  • OPINION

    Foolish pride

    News, Postbag, Published on 21/05/2023

    » Re: "MFP victory one for the history books", (Opinion, May 20).

  • WORLD

    Tiny literary shoots take root

    Sunday Spotlight, Published on 23/04/2023

    » Before Sally Rooney was the author of bestselling books, and well before those books became buzzy television series, she was an undergraduate student at Trinity College Dublin with a growing pile of unpublished poems and no contacts in the writing world. Her first break came in 2010, when The Stinging Fly, a small Irish literary magazine, agreed to publish her work.

  • WORLD

    How to run a fashion magazine in China

    Sunday Spotlight, Published on 19/03/2023

    » Two years ago, when Conde Nast announced that Margaret Zhang would be the next editor-in-chief of Vogue China, many in the fashion media were taken aback.

  • OPINION

    Consultancy 'warp' drive deepens crisis of capitalism

    News, Published on 13/03/2023

    » In recent years, McKinsey & Company has become a household name -- but for all the wrong reasons. One of the "Big Three" consulting firms, its work for major corporations and governments has increasingly become a source of scandal and intrigue around the world.

  • WORLD

    Suppressed culture makes bestseller

    Sunday Spotlight, Published on 19/02/2023

    » Two days after Christmas, Ann-Helen Laestadius found herself being gently pummelled by reindeer.

  • WORLD

    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.

Your recent history

  • Recently searched

    • Recently viewed links

      Did you find what you were looking for? Have you got some comments for us?