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Catch Olivia Rodrigo live in Bangkok
Life, Tatat Bunnag, Published on 17/05/2024
» Don't miss your chance to secure tickets to see Filipino-American singer-songwriter Olivia Rodrigo who recently announced additional dates for her Guts World Tour, which includes Thailand in the Asia leg.
For journalists, neutrality is not the goal
Oped, Published on 17/05/2024
» My ability to be neutral as a political journalist depends on the intellectual honesty of the people -- and the society -- I cover.
Equities tipped to hit new high amid rate cut hopes
Business, Nuntawun Polkuamdee, Published on 17/05/2024
» Global stocks, especially on the US exchanges, could hit an all-time high in the second quarter as investors are expected to embrace riskier assets after concerns ease over the Federal Reserve's interest rate actions, says Thai wealth management platform Finnomena.
Seeking immunity from cybercrime
News, Wassayos Ngamkham, Published on 17/05/2024
» Cybercrime today has become alarmingly advanced as criminals keep coming up with new ways to scam victims.
More local input needed to adjust tax law
Business, Wichit Chantanusornsiri, Published on 17/05/2024
» Local governments must play a greater role in amending the land and building tax law, which has been in effect for five years, says Pornchai Thiraveja, director-general of the Fiscal Policy Office.
Livid about Lumpini
Oped, Postbag, Published on 17/05/2024
» Re: "No surprises", (PostBag, May 13), & "Accident waiting to happen", (BP, May 12).
Climate change poses health threat
Oped, Published on 17/05/2024
» It is widely believed that climate change is the single biggest threat to human health. A global temperature increase of 2C -- a threshold that will likely be exceeded by the end of the century -- could claim as many as one billion lives, with extreme weather events, heatwaves, droughts, flooding, infectious disease outbreaks, and food shortages among the causes of death. But the situation may, in fact, be far worse because the current forecasts fail to account for the inevitable increase in antimicrobial resistance (AMR).
Cannes asks: Cinema anyone?
Life, Kong Rithdee, Published on 17/05/2024
» To remind us that we're here because of cinema, the 77th Cannes Film Festival did an uncanny double bill on its first day. The festival opened on Tuesday and will run until May 25. On the first afternoon, before the ritzy kerfuffle of the opening red carpet, Cannes screened the first part of the restored 1927 silent film Napoleon, an audacious epic of the French Revolution by Abel Gance, who 97 years ago tested the limits of what cinema could do with exhilarating results (the entire film runs for seven hours; we were treated to the first four here).
Millennial marvel
Life, Kanokporn Chanasongkram, Published on 17/05/2024
» Swiss watchmaker IWC Schaffhausen launches its first secular perpetual calendar in the leap year of 2024. An engineering feat, the Portugieser Eternal Calendar automatically takes into account the Gregorian calendar's leap year exception rules.
Dials of style
Life, Published on 17/05/2024
» Launched in 2003, IWC's first Portugieser with a perpetual calendar boasted a moon phase display with an accuracy of 577.5 years.