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Rubber art
Life, Suwitcha Chaiyong, Published on 23/04/2025
» A black French Louis style dressing table looks strangely beautiful. On it is a black vase filled with elegant black roses and cosmetic bottles on the table are also black. On the left side of the dressing table is a mannequin dressed in a stylish black evening gown and on the right side is a black floor lamp with a delicately carved lampshade. In addition, there is a chair along with bags and shoes in the same area.
10 films to watch out for
Life, Kong Rithdee, Published on 16/05/2023
» A fierce hijab girl, a Vietnamese pilgrimage, a Scorsese-DiCaprio team up and a new Cate Blanchett drama, Cannes Film Festival opens today with an eclectic taste of world cinema.
Crevice kill unwinds, valiant act, swollen manhood
News, Mae Moo, Published on 24/10/2021
» Stuffed in a hole
The high cost of fast fashion
Life, Suwitcha Chaiyong, Published on 11/10/2021
» When Natthapat Wangvanichaphan, one of the founders of The Geen, a waste management company, was disposing unused items in her house, she noticed that her old underwear was made from non-biodegradable plastic such as nylon or polyester. Natthapat realised if she threw her underwear in a rubbish bin, they would end up in a landfill. Nylon takes 40 years to decompose while polyester takes more than 200 years.
Epic restoration of silent seven-hour Napoleon movie
Life, Francois Becker & Eric Randolph of AFP, Published on 20/05/2021
» PARIS: In a mammoth restoration task for one of cinema's most audacious and elusive treasures, a team of obsessives has spent 12 years recreating the original seven-hour cut of Abel Gance's 1927 silent classic Napoleon.
Melancholy and absurdity
Life, Kong Rithdee, Published on 14/05/2021
» Chaitanya Tamhane was 27 years old when his breakthrough film Court became a critical sensation and won the Lion of the Future Award at the Venice festival in 2014. A film of understated power about India's Kafkaesque judicial tribulation, Court announced the arrival of an exceptional talent from Mumbai, a proud cinema city usually associated with rambunctious Bollywood titles.
In fragrant street food, city planners see a mess
New York Times, Published on 15/12/2019
» The coconut wood pestle hits the mortar, and the chili fumes rise in a cough-inducing haze. The lime rind bruises. Salted crab releases its funk, along with bits of claw and carapace.
Klong Toey's own worker of magic
Life, Father Joe Maier, Published on 02/07/2019
» Jae Muey usually dressed in a secondhand slightly frayed wedding dress, looking very much like a fairy godmother. But she didn't do any whambo-bambo Harry Potter stuff. None of her magic shot out of a fancy wand. Rather, her special powers came from a beautiful soul and a faded three-wheel rickety push cart with a squeaky side wheel.
The eyes of a refugee
Life, Yvonne Bohwongprasert, Published on 24/06/2019
» Pairoj Pichetmetakul spent five days in Cox's Bazar, one of the world's largest refugee camps in Bangladesh. There, an estimated 1.4 million members of the Rohingya population, who have fled atrocities at the hands of Myanmar soldiers, are facing hardship. Due to their large numbers, humanitarian-aid agencies are barely able to offer basic necessities such as food, shelter and medicine, and often campaign for donations.
Reeking havoc
Life, Suwitcha Chaiyong, Published on 18/06/2019
» For over two years now, locals at Chao Lae Community in Chon Buri province haven't been able to breathe fresh air. Massive flow from a sewer tunnel located next to the beach in their neighbourhood has turned part of the sea into polluted, smelly water. After the news made headlines last month, a local fisherman said the only thing the authorities from the municipality did was to drop Effective Microorganism (EM) balls in the sewage to get rid of the smell. But at times, the malodorousness returns to wreak havoc on people in the community.