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Two chefs unite for a special dinner
Life, Published on 02/05/2024
» Chef Bank of Aromkwan, who shares a mutual love of smoke, charcoal and open-flame cooking, will join hands with chef Shane of Quince Bangkok for the "Quince x Aromkwan: Inferno" dinner, at Quince on Soi Somkid, Phloenchit Road, on May 16 at 5pm.
Single's Inferno dating show returns
Life, Suwitcha Chaiyong, Published on 11/01/2024
» Single's Inferno, a popular Korean dating show on Netflix, recently returned for Season 3. In the show, twelve contestants (six men and six women), are placed on a deserted island called "Inferno" where they have to consume canned food and sleep in a small cabin.
The beat of Soweto
Life, John Clewley, Published on 04/07/2023
» Simon "Mahlathini" Nkabinde, known as the "Lion Of Soweto", was not allowed to leave South Africa until the mid-1980s, when he was invited to perform at a pioneering festival of music in Angouleme, France, along with the three Mahotella Queens, the musical engine the Makgone Tsohle Band, and producer and saxophonist West Nkosi.
Songkran myths, modern muddles
Life, Pattarawadee Saengmanee, Published on 11/04/2022
» After the Covid-19 outbreak disrupted our lives for over two years, the government has lifted regulations, allowing people to celebrate this year's Songkran festival in public settings. However, water fights, powder smearing, foam parties or the sale and consumption of alcoholic beverages will not be permitted.
The kids aren't alright
Life, Bernard Trink, Published on 08/11/2019
» Crime is not limited by gender or age. Men, women and children can all end up behind bars for committing criminal acts. Ignorance of the law is no excuse. Many jurists advocate that laws be reconsidered periodically to determine whether they are still applicable. Some turn into the Blue Laws of yore, still on the books but no longer enforced. Others get overturned.
Barbed humour
Life, Bernard Trink, Published on 25/10/2018
» It was as a soldier boy in President Truman's "Police Action" that I first visited Asia -- South Korea and Japan.
From ideology to action
Life, Story: Ariane Kupferman-Sutthavong, Published on 03/04/2018
» 'Sex and bombs, all you need is sex and bombs to make the world go round," says veteran Thai artist Vasan Sitthiket, commenting on a 2011 painting from his "Sex Bomb: 24 Hours" series -- a portrait of himself drawn atop a scantily clad woman's body in a seductive pose, a bombshell by his side. Although the series is a denunciation of the modern pornography -- money, power and lies -- that we are fed on a daily basis, there's more to Vasan's work than just lust and violence.