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Report from the far South
Life, Kong Rithdee, Published on 15/01/2018
» The first issue of The Melayu Review has the clean sophistication of a respectable literary journal. The layout is unfussy, the photographs black-and-white, and the text in Thai, in shipshape blocks. An editor's note on the first page quotes Dostoyevsky: "But how could you live and have no story to tell?"
Auspicious art
Life, Published on 15/01/2018
» To welcome 2018 in style, Singapore's Lotus on Water in collaboration with UOB and the Emporium present "The Colours Of Prosperity And Elegance: The Feng Shui Art Of Emeritus Master Yun And Lotus On Water", a feng shui-themed art exhibition showcasing 108 pieces of paintings and sculptures worth 1 billion baht.
The best of the Mediterranean coastline
Life, Vanniya Sriangura, Published on 12/01/2018
» Regulars and well-informed foodies know they can also trust Vesper, a multi-award-winning cocktail bar, when it comes to culinary perfection.
Artificial intelligence
Life, Bernard Trink, Published on 12/01/2018
» There are Vatican scholars. Then there are novelists who research the Vatican library to give the plots of their imaginative religious stories the aura of authenticity. It turns out that the lay writers usually pen more interesting books. Less authentic, yet more believable.
Scala's screening of Cleopatra harks back to a bygone era
Life, Kong Rithdee, Published on 12/01/2018
» As news of the threatened demolition of the Scala is still hanging, there's a good reason to visit the cinema this Sunday.
The many faces of France
Life, Kong Rithdee, Published on 12/01/2018
» At the simplest level Agnes Varda's and JR's Visages Villages is a documentary film about photography and art-making. Going slightly deeper, as the title suggests, it's a film about faces and places, about people and their villages -- rural communities, farmland, factories and towns in the unglamorous corners of France. And yet at its most moving, most humanist moments, this film by an 89-year-old filmmaker and a 33-year-old street artist is about the heartbreaking ephemerality of art, about mortality, memory and the transient nature of everything, above all of life itself.
The kids are alright
Life, Published on 12/01/2018
» Tomorrow is National Children's Day. We talked to a cross-section of youngsters from different backgrounds to get their views on life, work, education and what the day means to them.
A watch for Chinese New Year
Life, Published on 11/01/2018
» We're well into the New Year, according to the Gregorian calendar, but a month away from the Chinese New Year, which arrives on a different date every time.
Mozart's Jupiter symphony should prove heavenly
Life, Harry Rolnick, Published on 11/01/2018
» 'This music is wicked and fantastic," said that very wicked fantastic philosopher Frederic Nietzsche. He was referring to George Bizet's Carmen. And for almost 150 years, the world has agreed with him.
Man's best friend
Life, Kanokporn Chanasongkram, Published on 11/01/2018
» Following the 12-year Chinese zodiac, leading watchmakers are as much into astrology as haute horlogerie in having created a series of timepieces featuring each animal sign.