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Artists flee Elon Musk's X as new AI image-editing feature sparks outrage
Life, Puriward Sinthopnumchai, Published on 27/12/2025
» Digital creators and illustrators are abandoning X, formerly Twitter, en masse following the introduction of a controversial image-editing feature powered by artificial intelligence (AI) that allows users to modify others' work without consent. The exodus, led by high-profile artists, highlights growing fears over intellectual property theft and the potential for harassment through Elon Musk’s Grok AI integration.
The infinite anomaly
Life, Thana Boonlert, Published on 26/12/2025
» Genki Kawamura returned this year with his second feature film Exit 8. His debut, A Hundred Flowers (2022), follows Yuriko, an ageing piano teacher, who unravels in the grip of dementia and her son, Izumi, who comes to term with losing her again. While Yuriko's mind is fading, her son's memories are vivid. In particular, her disappearance still haunts him.
Straddling two worlds
Life, Thana Boonlert, Published on 11/12/2025
» When I visited Istanbul for the first time, I learned a joke from Gocke, my local guide, who goes to work by undersea train every day. "But you can't see anything," she laughed. For her, it takes only four minutes to cross from Asia to Europe, under the Bosphorus Strait that divides the ancient city.
A new lens
Life, Sirinya Wattanasukchai and Kwanchai Dumrongkwan, Published on 10/11/2025
» 'Hmong people practise animism," explains Sirikarn Sengla, an 18-year-old from the Mae Taeng district of Chiang Mai. She lives near Doi Mon Ngo, a beautiful mountain wrapped in mist and forest, far from the noise and speed of the modern world. Although her village is only 64km from Chiang Mai city, the journey takes her nearly two hours.
When students rise
Life, Thana Boonlert, Published on 28/10/2025
» Back in the mid-19th century, female education increased literacy and access to jobs and they began to fight for participation in public life. The public sphere promised them a new horizon. From the 1890s onwards, print media began to allow women to express their voice and authors vaunted personal talent and equality, including gender relations. Following the Siamese Revolution in 1932, women were enfranchised for the first time.
5-star guest on a 3-star cruise
Life, Tatat Bunnag, Published on 17/10/2025
» An award-winning investigative journalist is brought in to cover a story aboard a luxury yacht as it sails from the UK to Norway. One night, she believes she has witnessed a murder -- but there's no record of the victim ever having been on the boat.
An unforgettable flight
Life, Shreyaa Srivastava, Published on 30/07/2025
» When Ruangsak "James" Loychusak saw news of the recent Air India plane crash, he was reminded of a similar incident that took place 27 years ago.
Amy is still missing, almost 30 years later
Life, Tatat Bunnag, Published on 25/07/2025
» For some reason, unsolved cases remain one of the most popular genres among true crime aficionados -- perhaps because they're the kinds of mysteries that continue to boggle the mind long after the final frame. There's a particular frustration, and fascination, in not knowing what really happened. And few cases embody that unresolved tension as hauntingly as the disappearance of Amy Lynn Bradley.
Battling the big apps
Life, Suwitcha Chaiyong, Published on 01/07/2025
» In 2020, due to the Covid-19 pandemic, an application called Tam Sang Tam Song (On Demand Delivery) was launched by the Thai Health Promotion Foundation in collaboration with the Institute of Asian Studies, Chulalongkorn University. The app was developed to assist motorbike taxi drivers and local restaurants through economic difficulties caused by lockdowns. As a pilot app, it was tested in Ladprao Soi 101 in Bangkok, Betong and Yala and received positive feedback.
Telling our truth
Life, Tatat Bunnag, Published on 30/06/2025
» Pride in Action 2025 unfolded last week at Lido Connect Hall 2 in Siam Square, gathering prominent voices across various fields to empower and celebrate the LGBTI community under the theme "Together Now, Together Always". From 3pm to early evening, thought leaders, public officials and creatives came together to discuss LGBTI rights, visibility and cultural narratives -- culminating in one of the most emotionally resonant panels of the day.