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  Bigger than the Sun

  Life, Published on 02/01/2020

  » To raise awareness on alternative energy, Bangkok Art and Culture Centre (BACC) has joined hands with the Office of Energy Regulatory Commission to demonstrate lighting installations in the "Jaras Light Fest", which uses solar cells as its energy sources. Located on the 1st and 3rd floors of the BACC, the 11 installations and artworks by four invited artists and eight open-call artists have impressed visitors with a variety of designs and multicoloured lights. The solar panels of artworks have stored energy from the Sun during daytime. As a result, the exhibition is illuminated at night. Before creating their works, artists received a crash course in how solar cells work, so they had ideas on how to apply solar energy to their artworks.

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  K-pop artists cancel Hong Kong shows amid security concerns

  Published on 22/11/2019

  » K-pop artists have been cancelling their concerts in Hong Kong and fixing Asian tour calendar as the city’s turmoil from anti-Beijing and democracy movement stretches to the sixth month.

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  No offence

  Life, Gary Boyle, Published on 22/01/2019

  » You'll be familiar with Jim Jefferies' schtick. He's the archetypal Aussie bloke, unconcerned with politically correct ways to address hot-button topics. His rants wrong-foot you with boozy observations that crystallise into astute commentary on modern society, like he's some kind of pub savant.

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  A note on Thailand Biennale

  Life, Kong Rithdee, Published on 02/01/2019

  » One recent morning at Nopphrat Thara beach, the high tide flooded the lower part of a strange, interwoven structure. Rising from the blue water of the bay, it looked like an island, a new, unmapped island of Krabi visible from this popular spot where tourists visit and board tour boats to outlying islands.

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  Supply and demand

  Life, Bernard Trink, Published on 22/09/2017

  » During the era of the Raj, India was the leading poppy grower. It was sold worldwide as a treatment for hysteria in women and hyperactivity in children. Only China refused to have anything to do with it because it was addictive, but two opium wars taught them how to take it.

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  Live your dreams

  Life, Anchalee Kongrut, Published on 16/05/2016

  » Cuba, a socialist country with breathtaking Spanish colonial architecture, exceptionally fine music and superior cigars, is finally getting the world's attention it so deserves. Restored diplomacy with the US is putting the country among the top tourist destinations. Cuba was given a further boost when US President Barack Obama made a state visit in March and Karl Lagerfeld staged a fashion show in Havana earlier this month by turning the leafy Paseo del Prado boulevard into an extravagant catwalk. Not to be left behind, Thai hoteliers recently went to Havana to ink a deal to open a high-end complex.

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  Southern discomfort

  Life, Kaona Pongpipat, Published on 19/08/2015

  » The artist known as "Darkle" is showing his black and white photographs in an exhibition entitled "The Beautiful South: The Ugly Truth" at Quince -- Eatery & Bar as part of the ongoing Photo Bangkok 2015 exhibition. Darkle is simultaneously looking at and looking away from the conflict and violence in the southernmost provinces of Thailand.

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  Romanticising the insurgency

  Life, Kong Rithdee, Published on 24/07/2015

  » Rarely do we see a Thai film set in the Deep South and rarely do we see a film with so many people saying "assalamu alaikum" to each other. So now that we have one in the cinema, it turns out to be such a piece of romantic fluff that it hardly does justice to the complicated reality of the region and its people. What should we expect when Latitude Tee Hok (Latitude No.6) has been financed by the military — the Internal Security Operations Command, to be precise — and produced by UCI Media, an affiliation of a company that sells communication equipment to the army?

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  For horse lovers

  Life, Bernard Trink, Published on 16/03/2015

  » Do you believe in coincidence? I do, because it has happened to me on occasion and there's no other likely explanation. Yet there are those who don't, and statistics have been made to show that there's a mathematical probability of such events occurring. But can't statistics prove just about anything?

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  Cannes Report Day 2

  Kong Rithdee, Published on 04/01/2015

  » <b>Cannes<br> May 17</b> What I regret most in Jacques Audiard's "Rust and Bone", screening in Cannes Competition on Thursday, is the heartbreakingly brief appearance of the killer whales.

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