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Apple strikes deal with Google to bring Gemini to Siri
Life, Puriward Sinthopnumchai, Published on 10/11/2025
» Apple has reportedly abandoned its in-house development efforts for the core Siri model and has instead contracted Google to design a bespoke version of its Gemini Large Language Model (LLM) specifically for deployment within Apple’s Private Cloud Compute framework, making Apple's AI more on par with its competitors.
BKK Comics Art Festival is back at BACC
Life, --Thana Boonlert, Published on 15/10/2025
» The BKK Comics Art Festival is back for its fourth edition at the Bangkok Art and Culture Centre.
Voices for change
Life, Nattha Keenapan, Published on 20/05/2025
» When Kemjira Jehba was diagnosed with depression at age 12, her world became quiet. The kind of quiet where pain goes unnoticed and stigma speaks louder than understanding. It took years of therapy, self-reflection and courage for her to find her voice again. Now aged 20, she's using it to help build a world where mental health is not feared but understood.
Power of young voices
Life, Melalin Mahavongtrakul, Published on 12/06/2023
» Colourful papers and crayons scatter the floor as children scribble away on cardboard. Scissors meticulously cut paper into letters, and slowly messages are formed on the waiting cardboard, advocating for society to embrace diversity, promote marriage equality and tear down harmful gender binary.
Powerful agents of change
Life, Dilshat Zhussupova, Published on 05/09/2022
» Children and youth who are stateless, migrants or urban refugees are often unseen and unheard. But with access to support and tools for empowerment, they can develop their potential to advocate for their rights within their homes, schools and communities -- no matter their legal status, citizenship or country of origin.
Seen yet still invisible
Life, Wandee Suntivutimetee, Published on 27/12/2021
» No one wants to be stateless -- with no nationality and no legal identity. Having a nationality is a right enshrined and guaranteed in the Convention on the Rights of the Child. Yet close to 300,000 children in Thailand have no such status. They live in fear, with their fundamental rights and future dreams diminished.
Doc chronicles shocking state of stateless
Life, Published on 18/11/2021
» Home -- a small word fraught with cultural, political and existential meaning is also a word that brings pain and confusion to a large swathe of humanity adrift in the limbo of vague borders and unrecognised status.
Theatre festival focuses on children
Life, Published on 01/11/2021
» Fun times are in order for children and families during the next Bangkok International Children's Theatre Festival, which will take place from Friday Nov 5 to Nov 14.
Pandemic parenting
Life, Thana Boonlert, Published on 11/08/2021
» Phannakan Sreetheamsak recalled feeling lonely as an only child and decided she would have two of her own so they could keep each other company. She gave birth to the first child three years ago. Her second pregnancy occurred during the very difficult time of Covid-19. She took pains to avoid risks until the baby opened its eyes in March. Her relatives and friends were not allowed to visit them in hospital -- a departure from the traditional large family gathering.
Bridging the educational divide
Life, Gita Sabharwal & Shigeru Aoyagi, Published on 12/04/2021
» In Mae Hong Son's Ban Nai Soi village, 4km by gravel road from the nearest teacher, learners have faced almost insurmountable barriers to formal education. The road is difficult to travel during flood season, there is no access to the internet and electricity is extremely limited, requiring generators and solar power.