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Be a Kiwi scholar
Life, Published on 27/08/2014
» The University of Waikato in Hamilton, New Zealand is offering a NZ$1 million (27 million baht) international scholarship fund to students from 12 Asian countries.
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Books come first
Life, Published on 01/09/2014
» Former correspondent for China Radio International (CRI) and columnist for Matichon Weekly magazine, Panlop Samsi has returned to Bangkok after spending half-a-decade in Beijing.
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The learning tree
Life, Melalin Mahavongtrakul, Published on 16/09/2014
» In a cool, brightly lit classroom, about 60 students — all over the age of 19 — are looking at their teacher attentively, despite the stench emitting from the canal outside the room's sliding doors.
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About a (tom) boy
Life, Melalin Mahavongtrakul, Published on 19/06/2014
» Life as a 23-year-old can be hectic, especially if you are one of the most popular Thai actresses in China, juggling constant fan meetings, filming schedules, recording sessions, university lectures and an internship.
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Cracking the code
Life, Published on 09/06/2014
» Decoded: A Novel, Mai Jia’s story of Rong Jinzhen, a cryptanalyst and lost revolutionary hero, has only just been released in English. But the debut novel by the former military intelligence officer became a bestseller after its publication in China in 2002. Given the recent news of cyber-espionage between the US and China, I found myself wondering what the hackers of Unit 61398 thought of this fictionalised history of their craft? Did they, expert codebreakers, find what eluded me: the key to unlocking the ambiguities at the heart of this frustrating but engaging novel?
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Found in translation
Life, Pimrapee Thungkasemvathana, Published on 14/05/2014
» Korean series Full House has been remade four times in four languages — Filipino, Vietnamese, Indonesian and Thai. Here, a decade after the original South Korean version was released in 2004, Pirat “Mike” Nitipaisalkul and Sushar “Aom” Manaying have eclipsed Rain and Song Hye-kyo in their stardom.
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Innovation and inventions at Impact
Life, Published on 16/06/2014
» More than 600 brilliant innovations by local and international researchers will take centre stage during the “Inventors’ Day 2014 Exhibition”, which will take place on June 23-26.
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Discover the world of Theravada Buddhism in China
Life, Published on 11/06/2014
» The National Museum Volunteers (NMV) presents a lecture on “The Dai of Yunnan: Theravada Buddhism in China” at the auditorium of the National Museum Bangkok tomorrow from 10am to noon.
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Industrialisation of Young Hope
Life, Kong Rithdee, Published on 04/04/2014
» No wonder this was a mainland hit. Peter Chan’s American Dreams In China is a rags-to-riches story that shows how the underdog Chinese beat the Americans at their own game — first through the industrialisation of dreams, then through free market capitalism. Luck, bumps, over-ambition and shattered friendships are necessary mixes along the path, but at the end the message is as clear as the surface of a Jiuzhaigou lake — while aspiring Chinese of the 1980s looked up to the US as the beacon of wealth and economic wonder, today it’s China Inc — its riches, its values, its bombast and its never-give-up defiance that shame the falling-from-grace Americans.
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Headhunter by chance
Asia focus, Nithi Kaveevivitchai, Published on 21/04/2014
» With more than 2,000 employees at 53 offices in 24 countries, Robert Walters is now one of the world’s leading recruitment consultancies, and with expansion in Asia it is only going to get bigger and bigger over the next decades. However, when asked what it takes to become a global business services provider and how he ended up in the industry in the first place, the man whose name is on the door is disarmingly candid.
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