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Gap's Met Gala denim moment stunning, smart
News, Andrea Felsted, Published on 11/05/2024
» Among the many luxury brands showing off their lavish creations at the Met Gala this week were a handful of more mainstream names. One standout was The Gap Inc, which dressed actress Da'Vine Joy Randolph.
Too many security cameras, not enough safety
News, Stephen L Carter, Published on 30/01/2024
» Civil libertarians are celebrating the recent announcement by Amazon that law enforcement agencies will no longer be able to obtain Ring doorbell camera videos just by asking. Henceforth, the company will require a subpoena or a search warrant.
Past offers a way forward in Ukraine
News, Andreas Kluth, Published on 02/09/2023
» It seems increasingly likely that the Ukrainians won't be able to drive out the Russian invaders, and that the Russians won't succeed in swallowing any more of Ukraine either. What, aside from unimaginable human misery, comes next?
Will the Cop27 meet bring dread or hope?
News, Andrew Steer & Kelly Levin, Published on 14/11/2022
» Ask two different climate experts at the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Egypt (Cop27) to characterise their feelings about the future, and you may get quite different answers. "We are seeing more progress than we ever imagined," says one, while the other laments that we are heading full tilt like lemmings over the cliff. They can't both be right, can they?
In the wake of the not so great debate
News, Roger Crutchley, Published on 04/10/2020
» While there might have been an element of entertainment in a perverse sort of way watching the US presidential candidates slagging one another off like squabbling children, these politicians still have a lot to learn in the art of insulting behaviour.
It's only news when the man bites the dog
News, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 20/11/2019
» As British newspaper magnate Viscount Northcliffe said: "When a dog bites a man, that is not news, because it happens so often. But if a man bites a dog, that is news."
The elephant in the room
News, Leah Carter, Published on 20/10/2019
» Elephants are a national symbol, source of pride and one of the biggest draws for tourists to Thailand.
Bangkok losing its gloss
News, Dusida Worrachaddejchai, Leah Carter and Supoj Wancharoen, Published on 15/09/2019
» Bangkok has added its 2019 award as the world's top destination to a list of prizes it has won over the past decade, but the latest success comes with one question.
Meditating for aliens
News, Leah Carter, Published on 02/09/2019
» "Could a star do that? Could a plane do that?" asks Ann Thongcharoen, 28, after seeing a light shining through the clouds on top of Khao Kala mountain in Nakhon Sawan province.
Foolish drug war
News, Postbag, Published on 10/08/2019
» Re: "Weed use a 'medical minefield'", (BP, Aug 8). If countries like Canada and the US are not intimidated by threats from the wrong-headed International Narcotics Control Board (INCB) that is stuck in the hysteria-driven mistakes of the ignorant past and vicious drug war heyday, why should Thailand be terrified of its threats to punish good citizens who need other medicines? The whole idea of punishing another group for the perceived crimes of others is morally indefensible, however popular it might be in the sanctions imposed by US presidents intent on forcing others to bow to their populist will.