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Cuddly friends
Life, Thana Boonlert, Published on 10/09/2025
» When the Taiwan Creative Content Agency (TAICCA) came to Bangkok International Digital Content Festival 2025 at Samyan Mitrtown recently, it marked the first step towards expanding its cultural content in Thailand and Southeast Asia.
Korean actor Lee Jun-hyuk kicks off Asia tour in Bangkok
Life, Suwitcha Chaiyong, Published on 10/04/2025
» Lee Jun-hyuk, a talented Korean actor who can play different roles convincingly, is set to embark on an Asian tour following the success of the romantic drama series Love Scout on Netflix. Bangkok will be his first destination, after which he will visit Tokyo, Taipei, Manila and Seoul.
Turning smart glasses into surveillance tools
Life, James Hein, Published on 23/10/2024
» I'm sure most readers are familiar with the Apple Vision Pro, and may have also been witness to someone wearing one out in the real world, because I have. Since then, there has been a new version of the Meta Ray-Bans that look like a pair of nerd glasses from the 1970s. The latter have turned into something from the TV series Person Of Interest by a couple of Harvard undergrads. The pair, AnhPhu Nguyen and Caine Ardayfio, are known for their punch-activated flamethrower. This time they built a system that allows the Ray-Bans to scan faces of people in view, pass this to an AI system that scans the internet for identification, and builds a dossier that is passed back to the glasses. It's called I-XRAY and challenges the concept of privacy because, if available, it will even provide details like address and social security number.
A new low in online scams
Life, James Hein, Published on 17/07/2024
» According to the Australia's Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC), scammers are now targeting scam victims with fake offers to help them recover from scams. The con is to use information from those scammed in the past and approach these people with an offer to recover the funds they have lost for, of course, an up-front fee.
Festive farewell
Life, John Clewley, Published on 17/08/2021
» The closing ceremony of the recent Tokyo Olympics was a surprise for many people. The organisers, recognising that many athletes were unable to explore Tokyo due to restrictions, transformed the Olympic stadium into a massive public park. The park featured typical Japanese leisure activities like yoga and rope skipping and a short film that showed the athletes what Japanese festival music and dancing is like, with clips from the Ainu in Hokkaido, Eisa dancing from Okinawa and Gujo Odori from Gifu, which led to live Bon Odori dancing in the stadium, driven by a booming taiko drum.
808s in Tamil Nadu state
Life, John Clewley, Published on 10/11/2020
» This month's Transglobal World Music chart has an Asian flavour with an Arabic twist as Ammar 808 took the top spot with a fusion of South Indian music from Tamil Nadu state that has been through an Arabic blender.
A deal to save the planet
Life, Sawarin Suwichakornpong, Published on 04/09/2020
» The rising temperature of Earth's climate is wreaking havoc on our ecosystems by generating extreme changes in the weather, unresolved seasonal changes, and ecological damage. While there is ample evidence to suggest climate change took place even in prehistoric times, scientists have observed that the rate and degree of change since the mid-20th century has been accelerating, concluding that human activity has been the major driving force underlying this drastic transformation.
Amazing Thailand's Amazing New Year
Life, Published on 31/12/2019
» Are you ready to kiss 2019 goodbye? You have only tonight to get in the last fun of the year but, with so many countdown events being held in and around town, it might be difficult to decide what to do.
New Year events in six provinces
Life, Published on 23/12/2019
» New Year is just around the corner and many must be busy planning their year-end celebrations. For those wishing to have new experiences at lesser known venues, they're invited to the "Amazing Thailand Countdown 2020" events which will be held at six emerging destinations far away from Bangkok.
The international local
Life, Nianne-Lynn Hendricks, Published on 04/10/2019
» 'My approach to cooking is to let the ingredients shine, it is always about the ingredients," says chef Richie Lin. Lin's Michelin-starred Mume in Taipei, Taiwan, is known to change its menu according to the seasonality of ingredients available.