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Dame Maggie Smith (1934–2024)
Life, Tatat Bunnag, Published on 04/10/2024
» Maggie Smith, the legendary British actress whose career spanned over seven decades, passed away last week at the age of 89.
Make aspirations real
Life, Atiya Achakulwisut, Published on 24/05/2023
» The sight of marine animals being choked by plastics. Cases of extreme weather that seem to occur more frequently. Or the ever-rising cost of energy and desperate need to find alternative, cleaner and preferably renewable sources.
We must prepare for an aged society
Life, Kanokporn Chanasongkram, Published on 08/05/2023
» In mid-April, the Songkran Festival welcomes the Thai New Year with water splashing and people getting wet.
Omega man
Life, Kanokporn Chanasongkram, Published on 24/02/2023
» One of the biggest moments at Omega was in the year 2000, recalled its president and CEO Raynald Aeschlimann. On Zurich’s Bahnhoffstrasse, the Swiss brand had opened a boutique where all Omega watch collections were available in one location for the first time.
New Apple museum opens in former Warsaw factory
Life, AFP, Published on 15/06/2022
» A new museum opening in a former metalworking factory in Warsaw brings together 1,600 exhibits linked to Apple -- the result of years of painstaking efforts by a determined Polish collector.
Snacking towards bad health
Life, Thana Boonlert, Published on 20/04/2021
» After working all day, a worn-out mother does not have time to buy something fresh for dinner on the way home. Instead, she raids a convenience store in her condo and puts frozen food in a trolley. She also picks up her son's favourite potato crisps because it can keep him busy in front of a tablet while he waits for his dad to come home from work late at night.
Who wants a child amid such instability?
Life, Thana Boonlert, Published on 01/03/2021
» A few weeks ago, the Ministry of Public Health launched a programme titled "Life Balance Smart Family" to pair singles and support soon-to-wed couples in childbearing. The policy came after Thailand was found to have the lowest total fertility rate in its history, dropping below 600,000 infant births for the first time last year. This has brought the birth rate down to 1.51, which is far below the World Health Organisation's recommendation of 2.1.
Old but not out
Life, Pattarawadee Saengmanee, Published on 01/02/2021
» Thailand started the Year of the Ox by becoming a fully fledged ageing society, with the number of aged people rising to 13.1 million or 20% of the total population, according to the National Economic and Social Development.
The price of inaction
Life, Melalin Mahavongtrakul, Published on 29/10/2018
» While Uruguay celebrates more rights among the LGBTI community, other parts of the world are going backwards — including Thailand
Sometimes transcendental, always relevant
Life, Kong Rithdee, Published on 25/05/2018
» The American films were on short supply this year at Cannes -- which in turn deprived the assembly line of red carpet material -- but nobody seemed to mind that except, well, some American media and fashion bloggers. That superfluous caveat aside, the recently wrapped 71st Cannes Film Festival was nearly unanimously praised as one of the best editions in recent memory, with a string of good, sometimes very good, titles playing night after night -- and even the bad films weren't so offensively bad, as was often the case. In the midst of soul-searching following the question of relevance (the world wants Avengers), the rise of streaming (the world watches films on phones), the decline of arthouse popularity, Cannes insists on the sacredness of cinema, on the future of the art, and this year it paid off solidly.