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Green Book beats the Oscars odds

Life, Published on 26/02/2019

» Green Book, about a white chauffeur and his black client in segregation-era America, won best picture at the Academy Awards, overcoming mixed critical notices and a series of awards-season setbacks. By backing Green Book voters slowed the ascendancy of Netflix, which had been pushing a competing nominee Roma.

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Only half-woke

Brunch, Chanun Poomsawai, Published on 21/01/2018

» 'The truth will set you free/But first, it'll piss you off," prefaces Pharrell Williams on Lemon, the opening number of N.E.R.D.'s comeback LP, No One Ever Really Dies. Pharrell, a super producer, fashion designer and all-around dilettante, along with Chad Hugo and Shae Haley, are having a major woke moment and they've brought a whole lot of "wokeness" to their first full-length album in seven years since 2010's Nothing.

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Exhibition speaks for endangered community

Life, Ariane Kupferman-Sutthavong, Published on 11/01/2018

» Despite being neatly tucked between the Saen Saeb canal and Bangkok's ancient city walls, the Pom Mahakan community has been under constant threat for over two decades.

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When the party's over and there's nowhere to go ...

News, Supoj Wancharoen, Published on 15/03/2014

» Political rallies may come and go and create great changes in society, but they leave behind a growing number of homeless, according to a non-government organisation which deals with the issue.

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It's a rubbish job at the protests

News, Supoj Wancharoen, Published on 08/02/2014

» As the old saying goes: rubbish expands to fit the space allotted to it. And Bangkok's streets are pretty big. Enter the city garbage collectors who have to clear up the mess generated by the anti-government rallies.

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Jumbo Problems

Life, Anchalee Kongrut, Published on 06/11/2013

» In the recent Thai action flick Tom Yum Goong 2, martial artist Tony "Jaa" Panom successfully creates a myth of being the most ferocious animal lover on the planet. After his elephant is kidnapped, he punches, kicks and risks his life, and even kills, to protect his "brother" _ the pachyderm believed to be a descendant of an auspicious war elephant.

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October remembrance

Life, Kaona Pongpipat, Published on 09/10/2013

» Monday marks the 40th anniversary of the Oct 14, 1973, student uprising which ended the military dictatorship and brought about a great change in the Thai political system. To commemorate the event, there are various cultural events lined up around the city, from plays and documentaries to exhibitions. We preview some of them here.

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Get active

Guru, Pornchai Sereemongkonpol, Published on 18/10/2013

» Ademonstration against a controversial dam project in Mae Wong National Park will start at Bangkok Art and Culture Centre tomorrow. The dam plan has been criticised for its lack of transparency, questionable effi ciency in preventing future fl ooding and its threat to irreplaceable trees and wildlife. To deputy PM Plodprasob Suraswadi, forests can be regrown and wildlife bred, but an online petition against the project on Change.org has garnered over 113,401 signatures, becoming the biggest campaign of its kind in Asia (who knew that Thais are such environmentalists?!).

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Paradise lost

Life, Anchalee Kongrut, Published on 19/08/2013

» The words "national park" should convey the spirit of conservation and a well-protected space of natural beauty. But in Thailand, sometimes the parks are beset by scandals and controversy that also imply problems: law violation, land disputes, poaching, encroachment and environmental abuses.

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The Mexican parallel

Life, Published on 12/06/2012

» WHICH TABLE might they have sat at to plot the revolution? Considering its unassuming old-fashioned ambience, few may realise that Cafe La Habana in central Mexico City has played a pivotal part in shaping the history of Cuba. Legend has it that in the mid-50s, then fugitive Fidel Castro frequented the eatery where he met like-minded peers, the likes of Ernesto ''Che'' Guevara who was also in search of a cause to fight (and die) for. The following year, they would board the Granma and set sail for Castro's homeland where began one of the most bloody, colourful, epic battles that would change the geo-political landscape of Latin America, indeed of the rest of the world.