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  • OPINION

    Boom days gone, but rubber planters have a point

    Published on 27/08/2013

    » Protesting rubber growers blocked the Bangkok railway line in Nakhon Si Thammarat on Monday night, forcing at least three trains and their unhappy passengers to return to Hat Yai. The main southern highway also remains blocked in the same province, bringing through traffic in both directions to a complete halt.

  • ADVANCED NEWS

    Silk Boom: Opportunity for Thailand

    Jon Fernquest, Published on 07/05/2013

    » As Chinese wages rise & more silk used in China, global supplies fall & prices rise, creating silk opportunity for Thailand.

  • ADVANCED NEWS

    Chinese tourism, the coming boom

    Jon Fernquest, Published on 18/04/2011

    » More and more Chinese will be making their way to Thailand in coming years. To capture a piece of this huge market, creative new businesses will be essential.

  • LIFE

    Back to the source

    Life, Kong Rithdee, Published on 24/07/2020

    » Evil is not banal in Ju-on: Origins, a particularly grisly six-part Netflix series. The J-horror wave that broke at the turn of the millennium may no longer be in vogue, but this supposed origin story of the 2001 Ju-On: The Grudge is probably even more extreme in its depiction of ghostly malice and vengeance. It's scarier too -- if you have a stomach for murder, disembowelment, matricide and self-combustibility -- because here the origin of violence is mostly domestic: the violence committed by father against mother, mother against daughter, husband against wife, friend against friend. It's a series (or you could see it as a three-hour film) about monsters that shows us that monstrosity really is born and raised first and foremost by humans.

  • OPINION

    EC has no vision

    News, Postbag, Published on 28/03/2019

    » A conscientious Election Commission would have counted the 1,500 ballots from New Zealand that arrived at their precincts after ballot counting had begun.True, the law allows for them to not be counted, but a duty-bound, proactive EC would have noted that the ballots' delay was not any fault of the voters, nor had they been tampered with en route.

  • LIFE

    NCT Dream returns to perform in Bangkok

    Life, Published on 23/04/2024

    » NCT Dream will make a comeback with their first stadium-scale show in the Kingdom, "2024 NCT Dream World Tour <The Dream Show3: Dream( )Scape> In Bangkok", at Rajamangala National Stadium, Ramkhamhaeng Road, on June 22 and 23, at 7pm on both days.

  • LIFE

    For Starters

    Life, Vanniya Sriangura, Published on 21/07/2023

    » Amidst the boom of Spanish gastronomy in Bangkok, Alegria, an upscale tapas bar-cum-restaurant, opened its doors at the K Village shopping mall.

  • LIFE

    Celebrating three decades of discovery

    Life, John Clewley, Published on 27/02/2024

    » World Beat celebrates 30 years on the music trail this month. The column started in Feb 1994 when Chuan Leekpai of the Democrat Party was in his first term as Prime Minister.

  • THAILAND

    The highs and lows of liberalising weed

    News, Pratch Rujivanarom, Published on 02/03/2023

    » A boom in cannabis businesses has helped jolt the tourism industry back to life, as travellers flock to Thailand for marijuana tourism.

  • LIFE

    A tribute to Jamaican heritage

    Life, John Clewley, Published on 30/01/2024

    » Studio One, one of Jamaica's most influential recording studios and labels, was founded by Clement "Coxsone" Dodd in the 1950s on Brentford Road, Kingston. His first recordings were made in 1963 and for the next 20 years, he would help reshape Jamaican popular music and propel it around the world.

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