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After the stardust has settled
Life, Kong Rithdee, Published on 01/01/2016
» Attending Cannes Film Festival is like watching Mad Max: relentless, breathless, and giddily exhilarating. The festival ended last Sunday, with the French film Dheepan by Jacques Audiard a dark-horse Palme d'Or winner, and it makes sense now to look back at the world's premier cinema showcase after a few days of recuperation from the madness, where things can be put into a better perspective.
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Festive feasting from franco-japanese perspectives
Holiday Time, Noel Maclean, Published on 16/12/2015
» Looking for something a little daring on which to dine over Christmas or New Year? If exquisite flavours, intriguing textures and sheer style are your things, take a look at what Elements restaurant on the 25th floor of The Okura Prestige Bangkok (junction Wireless-Ploenchit) has in mind for you.
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Where luxury and serenity meet the sea
Holiday Time, Christopher Lombardi, Special publications, Published on 14/12/2015
» Located at the picturesque Klong Muong beach in Thailand's popular Krabi province just one hour by air from Bangkok, the Dusit Thani Krabi Beach Resort is a paradise of tropical tranquillity, offering the ideal setting to escape the stresses of everyday life and unwind amid nature's soothing caress.
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Journey of the guitar king
Life, Kong Rithdee, Published on 11/12/2015
» A small documentary film opens in limited cinemas this week. Revisiting a chapter in the Thai music history that many people may have forgotten, The Guitar King tells the story of Lam Morrison, a Thai rock musician and the country's first guitar star in the late 1960s. A long-haired man in his 70s now, Lam honed his guitar skills playing in GI camps in Udon Thani during the Vietnam War, before playing at bars in Bangkok and even toured Germany and Norway.
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Half-baked love story
Life, Parisa Pichitmarn, Published on 04/12/2015
» The damsel is always in distress during her travels, but that's the way it goes with Bollywood. In Tamasha, when heroine prototype (Deepika Padukone) loses her passport and wallet on the sunny and idyllic isle of Corsica, hero archetype (Ranbir Kapoor) comes to the rescue, and we are thrust into the (life-ruining) delight of a holiday fling all over again -- no names, no strings and in this case, nothing but lies as well.
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Opening doors
Life, Published on 23/11/2015
» Rasmi Hanvajanavong is an adviser to the seemingly small and unsound business group Thai Indie Bookstore Lovers Club, a network of small independent bookshops. She also works at the government's Office for SME Promotion, making passionate and idealistic shop owners cut costs by sharing orders to get more discounts and help others find customers.
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Finding the bright side
Muse, Yvonne Bohwongprasert, Published on 24/10/2015
» Despite her uphill battle with cancer for four years, Tavivalaya “Mikki” Meksawan radiates with positive energy. So much so that it makes it difficult to find anything physically wrong with her at first glance.
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As Ramadan ends, Buddhist Lent begins
Life, Published on 15/07/2015
» Our lives revolve around rites of biological passage at the personal level, and also calendric religio-cultural rituals, manifest in religious, national and international festivals. The religious festivals of Vesak, Phansa/Vassa, Deepawali, Yom Kippur, Christmas, Guru Nanak's birthday and the upcoming Muslim Eid al-Fitr, which falls on Friday and marks the end of the fasting month of Ramadan, reflect this spirit around the world.
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Incredible Indian fun dining
Special Publications, Published on 22/05/2015
» If only India itself was as laid back as Charcoal Tandoor Grill & Mixology, the not six months’ old iteration of contemporary sub-continental hospitality at 5th floor Frazer Suites (Sukhumvit Soi 11 where it dog-legs towards Soi 3).
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Bangkok evolution
Guru, Pornchai Sereemongkonpol, Published on 01/05/2015
» What can’t you do at 7-Eleven branches these days? Recently we learned you’re able to send parcels or get your clothes dry-cleaned at its outlets. We hope leaving a pet in a store’s care before going on vacation is next. That got us thinking about other everyday things in Bangkok that have evolved over time. After painstaking armchair research, we’ve dug up some trivia that should give you new appreciation of common sights — or at least be an edu-taining holiday read.
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