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    Fierce and pitiful

    Life, Kong Rithdee, Published on 20/03/2019

    » Krasue is a Thai ghost beside whom vampires -- and other blood-lusting Western monsters -- pale in comparison. Basically a detached head of a woman floating around in the dark, lit up by a phosphorescent glow from her still-beating heart, and with her bloody entrails dangling below the head like an infested creeper, krasue feeds on, naturally, filth, blood, corpses and carcasses. Sometimes it's compared, for the sake of convenience, with Gothic-era will-o'-the-wisp or jack-o'-lantern. But seriously, please, that is a gross under-characterisation that discounts the supreme grotesqueness of krasue, born by the pulpy fantasy of our equatorial folklorists.

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    SEC tightens rules for cryptocurrency trading

    Business, Nuntawun Polkuamdee, Published on 04/07/2023

    » The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is tightening rules for cryptocurrency trading to increase investor protection, demanding digital asset operators include risk disclosure in their advertisements and prohibiting them from providing services or supporting deposit taking and lending.

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    Traders pool wisdom to help struggling small fry

    Business, Phusadee Arunmas, Published on 29/06/2017

    » Major local wholesalers and traditional traders have vowed to lend support to 5,000 small traditional shops as they confront a lifestyle trend in which customers increasingly turn to big modern trade retailers.

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    What the polls say

    Oped, Postbag, Published on 06/05/2023

    » Re: "MFP closing gap with Pheu Thai: Nida", (BP, May 4).

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    Sour notes

    B Magazine, Suthon Sukphisit, Published on 15/01/2017

    » Sour foods and drinks can play an important part in helping us appreciate the taste of the food that we eat. It is believed that they stimulate the tongue and allow it to perceive flavour more quickly while also increasing one's appetite.

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    Disney dreams come true

    Life, Melalin Mahavongtrakul, Published on 01/12/2016

    » Young female singers from different countries were selected to lend their speaking and singing voices to the titular character of Moana, Disney's latest animated feature which opens today in Thai cinemas, in their own respective languages. In Thailand, the honour fell upon 19-year-old Thai-American singer Myra Molloy, who gushed that it was always a dream of hers to voice a Disney character.

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    A Dutch masterpiece continues to dazzle

    B Magazine, Published on 25/12/2016

    » Captured in a reflective moment gazing wistfully over her shoulder across a room at the spectacular View of Delft, a subtly sunlit medieval urban landscape painting idolising her homeland's Golden Age, she is free again to dream Dutch dreams.

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    Inside lives of refugees

    Life, Yvonne Bohwongprasert, Published on 15/06/2016

    » The life of a refugee is strewn with hardships of epic proportions which few of us can wrap our minds around. One of the few opportunities outsiders get to comprehend the magnitude of their suffering, so as to emphasize with them and lend a helping hand, is through documentaries and movies which depict their life stories.

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    A whimsical tea party at Tease, The Standard, Bangkok Mahanakhon's tea room

    Guru, Suthivas Tanphaibul, Published on 30/09/2022

    » Sathon welcomes Tease Tea Room, serving as a place for stylish midday catch-ups in the heart of Bangkok's bustling business district.

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    Could the study of humanities be automated?

    Oped, Published on 29/09/2022

    » There has been much hand-wringing about the crisis of the humanities, and recent breakthroughs in artificial intelligence (AI) have added to the angst. It is not only truck drivers whose jobs are threatened by automation. Now, they are demonstrating proficiency in the tasks that occupy humanities professors when they are not giving lectures: namely, writing papers and submitting them for publication in academic journals.

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