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Football legends invited to tour after golf event
News, Post reporters, Published on 27/02/2025
» Prime Minister Paetongtarn Shinawatra has invited three former football stars to tour Thailand after participating in the "Reignwood Icons of Football" golf competition.
3 steps forward, but 2.5 back for populism
News, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 10/10/2022
» The reports about Luiz Inácio 'Lula' da Silva's impending comeback as Brazilian president verged on the ecstatic in the week before the vote on Oct 2. He was after all, fourteen points ahead of his populist rival, incumbent president Jair Bolsonaro, in the last opinion poll before the vote.
Slow connection, little attention
News, Aye Kein Kham, Published on 04/01/2022
» Foreign students in Thailand living under Covid-19 restrictions have been facing some online learning challenges, adding another level of stress to their academic life.
Gender equality: We can all do more ... together
News, Thierry Mathou, Bernardo Cordova and Mohammad Naciri, Published on 27/03/2021
» On March 8, at the Alliance Française in Bangkok (The French cultural institute), supermodel and UN Women Regional Goodwill Ambassador Sirinya "Cindy" Bishop addressed a seminar leading to the Generation Equality Forum held on the occasion of International Women's Day. She repeated to the young Thai women in the audience that "Women don't need to be stronger. It is the world that needs to change the way it perceives women's strength."
Spaghetti westerns lose musical icon
News, Roger Crutchley, Published on 12/07/2020
» The death of Italian composer Ennio Morricone last week inevitably sparked memories of those old spaghetti westerns, including the so-called "Dollars Trilogy", in which his creative music was a crucial element. Those early Sergio Leone films were not known for extended dialogue -- he let the music do the talking and Morricone's distinctive scores hit the right note.
How Catholicism took root in Thailand
News, Nauvarat Suksamran & Dumrongkiat Mala, Published on 20/11/2019
» The first Christian to establish diplomatic relations with Siam was Alfonso de Albuquerque, the Portuguese governor-general assigned to Asia. Portugal was at the time occupying Malacca, in modern-day Malaysia, and sent its diplomats to the Ayutthaya Kingdom during the reign of King Ramathibodi II to forge relations in 1511.
Italy's right to make wrong choice
News, John Lloyd, Published on 04/06/2018
» The Italian crisis is over, and has just begun. Its dimensions go far beyond Italy; they are now European, even global. The near three-month long improvisations on a theme of governance ended Thursday with the announcement of an administration headed by Giuseppe Conte, a law professor with no government experience tasked with running a cabinet controlled by the leaders of the two parties which form that administration -- a signal of weak, divided and warring politics at the summit of power for the foreseeable future.
Female migrants at a disadvantage
News, Dovelyn Rannveig Mendoza, Published on 03/04/2018
» Migrant work is my inheritance. My mother left our home in the slums of Manila when I was eight years old to work in Iceland. For the next seven years, I only saw her twice before joining her there as a migrant worker myself, working in a factory during the week and, at weekends, cleaning houses.