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Indonesia gets $74b business commitments
Kyodo News, Published on 29/03/2015
» Indonesian President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo has brought back business commitments worth a total of US$74.34 billion in various planned projects and investments from his weeklong state visits to Japan and China through Saturday, a senior government official said.
The spirits of vengeance
B Magazine, Andrew Biggs, Published on 29/03/2015
» It’s Ghost Night here in Nakhon Nayok, a night where everybody breaks into groups and acts out, on stage, stories of popular Thai ghosts.
Laughing in the face of fame
B Magazine, Published on 29/03/2015
» He’s appeared in Hollywood films, once dated a porn star and holds records for packing out arenas across the globe. Yet most people have never heard of Russell Peters.
In the name of nocturnal pursuits
B Magazine, Chanun Poomsawai, Published on 29/03/2015
» Jon Hopkins has crafted a collection of after-hours lullabies that goes beyond the typical compilation.
A salt on the senses
B Magazine, Suthon Sukphisit, Published on 29/03/2015
» Anyone who shops knows the importance of being able to tell authentic goods from inferior imitations. Sometimes these are good enough to qualify as alternatives rather than fakes, but there are some cases where it seems odd that anyone would want to counterfeit them at all. One of them is sea salt.
Not by any other name
B Magazine, Normita Thongtham, Published on 29/03/2015
» What's in a name? Following the column about Quisqualis indica two weeks ago, Alain Missorten asked: “Any idea why it is called the Rangoon creeper?”
A taste of times gone by
B Magazine, Usnisa Sukhsvasti, Published on 29/03/2015
» He’s at it again! Na-Chanok Ratanadaros, president of G Enterprise and Co Ltd, has made a name for himself in the restaurant business, having run several popular food establishments such as Falabella, Ging Kalpapruek, Japan X and Moom-Muum Park in the past 20 years.
The graveyard of fishermen
Spectrum, Published on 29/03/2015
» Surrounded by tall grass and wild shrubs, small wooden plaques bear the names of 64 fishermen from Thai boats who never made it home.
Amid northern haze, a burning desire for wealth
Spectrum, Chaiyot Yongcharoenchai, Published on 29/03/2015
» Every day, Sai makes her way to a local fresh market in Chiang Mai’s Omkoi district, where she runs a small stand selling vegetables. For much of the year, it’s the 58-year-old’s sole source of income, bringing in less than 300 baht per day.
Rodney Tasker: a hard worker and true to his trade
Spectrum, Published on 29/03/2015
» It was a reminder of the days not long ago when correspondents, some of them foreign, were part of the fabric of political and diplomatic conversation in Southeast Asia: the death a few days ago of Rodney Tasker, a resident of Thailand for more than 30 years and former chief correspondent of the Far Eastern Economic Review (FEER).