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    Home improvement

    Guru, Kankanok Wichiantanon, Published on 17/04/2020

    » There are many services and products that we are used to using outside our homes, which we no longer have access to. However, people adapt to changes and most of those services and products can be enjoyed in the comfort of the great indoors. They include absolute essentials, such as hardware needed for work and items to entertain yourself like VR headsets, as well as beauty services. Guru has listed a few such things.

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    Keep on rockin' in a lockdown

    Life, John Clewley, Published on 14/04/2020

    » The sonic landscape of my life in central Bangkok has changed dramatically over the past few weeks of social distancing. Gone are the sounds of construction drills, booming pile drivers, honking horns, unmuffled motorcyles and throbbing tuk-tuks. I can hear birdsong of all kinds in the mornings and, at dusk, the whirring and squeaking of different bat species as they zoom around hunting for insects.

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    PPAP star Piko Taro, pop group Arashi release hand-washing songs

    Life, Published on 08/04/2020

    » Comedian Piko Taro, best known for his viral hit song Pen-Pineapple-Apple-Pen, and Japanese boy band Arashi have both released songs encouraging people to wash their hands amid the coronavirus pandemic.

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    Markets rise as deaths slow in hotspots: Virus update

    Published on 06/04/2020

    » Germany and Spain reported lower numbers of new cases, a tentative sign that lockdown measures are easing the outbreak.

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    Can't stop, won't stop

    Life, Tatat Bunnag, Published on 02/04/2020

    » As festivals are postponed and concert venues across the world are temporarily closed, musicians aren't stopping.

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    Corona and the death of cinema (again)

    Life, Kong Rithdee, Published on 30/03/2020

    » "Cinema is an invention without a future," said Louis Lumiere who, along with his brother Auguste, invented the Cinematographe in 1895. From its birth, cinema was convinced of its own death. From the very beginning, cinema predicted its own eventual demise. And that was before the two world wars, the advent of home video, laser disc, DVDs, Blu-rays, terrorism, mass shootings, Netflix, and now the coronavirus, the latest scourge that has sealed shut cinema houses around the world.

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    Trombone's place in modern music

    Life, John Clewley, Published on 17/03/2020

    » The funky sound of Fred Wesley's trombone landed on the World Beat desk this week courtesy of an album he released in 1974, with his band, Fred Wesley & the New JB's, called Breakin' Bread (originally released on Polydor, re-released 2015). Wesley was James Brown's musical director at the time, and Brown produced the album and co-wrote most of the songs with Wesley.

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    Music with a message

    Life, Suwitcha Chaiyong, Published on 17/03/2020

    » After releasing the viral anti-junta single Prathet Ku Mee (What My Country's Got) two years ago, rap group Rap Against Dictatorship has not ceased to confront the government through their music, including well-known songs like 250 So Plo (250 Bootlickers), Before Darkness and To Whom It May Concern.

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    BTS says new album tells of conquering doubts and fears

    Life, Published on 26/02/2020

    » The young stars in South Korean boy band BTS said this week the theme of their new album deals with how they overcame doubts and fears encountered since they burst on the K-pop scene seven years ago.

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    Finger on the pulse

    Life, Tatat Bunnag, Published on 25/02/2020

    » In recent years, we've seen the arrival of more and more online talk shows and podcasts, engaging and informing audiences on a wide variety of content, from current affairs to sports, film to technology, and everything in between.

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