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A year in art
Life, Suwitcha Chaiyong, Published on 29/12/2025
» Since Thailand's art scene flourished this year, especially in Bangkok, city residents had access to a diverse range of art. As the year draws to an end, Life spoke with Sukontip Nakasem, founder of Warin Lab Contemporary & La Lanta Fine Art, and Voravuj Sujjaporamest, founder of VS Gallery, about highlights and significant art events that happened this year. While Warin Lab Contemporary is renowned for presenting prevailing issues related to ecology and the environment, VS Gallery stands out for presenting issues related to marginalised people.
Sho Shibuya's mindful art comes to Bangkok
Life, Suwitcha Chaiyong, Published on 25/12/2025
» New York based artist Sho Shibuya uses the Bangkok Post as a canvas for his artwork, which is on show at the new contemporary art museum Dib Bangkok.
The moral cost of survival
Life, Tatat Bunnag, Published on 31/10/2025
» The deputy bank manager faces immense pressure when he learns that his position is soon to be replaced by artificial intelligence. Struggling with his family's growing financial burdens, he decides to find a desperate way out -- by stealing money from the account of a deceased person, one with no living relatives to verify their identity.
Latest Nithiwat Tharatorn movie set to release on Netflix in October
Life, Thana Boonlert, Published on 16/09/2025
» Netflix has given us the first glimpse of upcoming Thai film Everybody Loves Me When I'm Dead, which is set to premiere on Oct 14.
The jazzman of Bangkok
Life, John Clewley, Published on 22/04/2025
» The Bamboo Bar at the famous Oriental Hotel was set up in 1953 during a period when the hotel had several owners, including pioneering photographer and social activist Germaine Krull, and the art collector and silk king Jim Thompson. It quickly became one of the Bangkok's top nightclubs, known for its live jazz sessions.
Farewell to a maestro
Life, John Clewley, Published on 10/04/2024
» The world of molam has been in mourning since news emerged that Thailand's greatest phin player Thongsai Thap Thanon passed away on March 20 at his home in Warin Chamrap district, Ubon Ratchathani, at the age of 77. The phin is a two- or three-stringed Isan Lao lute that is part of the trinity of molam instruments, along with the iconic khaen (free reed bamboo mouth organ) and the sor (fiddle).
New campaign aims to reduce shark fin soup consumption
Life, Suwitcha Chaiyong, Published on 26/07/2022
» In order to raise awareness regarding the significant role of sharks in the ocean and how Thai people's consumption of shark fins are disrupting the ocean ecosystems, WildAid, a non-profit organisation, recently launched a new video called Sea Of Chaos.
The best of Thailand produce makes the rounds in Bangkok
Life, Published on 09/05/2022
» The finest assortment of Thai agricultural products are presented during "Kud Thai Market 2022", which is running at the Quartier Avenue, ground floor of EmQuartier, until tomorrow before it will move to four selected branches of The Mall in Bangkok.
Saying no to illegal wild meat
Life, Suwitcha Chaiyong, Published on 17/01/2022
» A traveller kills a wild animal and posts its photo on social media with the caption: "How should I cook this red junglefowl?"
Waiting for change at Din Daeng
Life, Thana Boonlert, Published on 04/10/2021
» It was after dusk when the first bang went off somewhere in a war-like zone. "They are just warming up," said a young dropout waiting for his friends amid an explosion near the bridge at Din Daeng intersection in Bangkok.