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    EVA Accepts Delivery of Its 1st Boeing 787-9 Dreamliner

    By prnews, Created on: 04/10/2018, Last updated on: 04/10/2018

    » [attachment=2:2kz5zvqv]1.jpg[/attachment:2kz5zvqv] [b:2kz5zvqv]Carrier to add three more 787-9s, 20 787-10s[/b:2kz5zvqv] CHARLESTON, SC (Oct 2, 2018) – EVA Air accepted delivery of its first 787-9 Dreamliner, aircraft number B-17881, at Boeing South Carolina on Oct. 2, 2018. EVA Chairman Steve...

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    PF and GRAND team up with "SUMITOMO FORESTRY"

    By prnews, Created on: 11/10/2017, Last updated on: 11/10/2017

    » [b:30tgsxfc]to develop high-end condominium at the heart of Sukhumvit road [/b:30tgsxfc] [attachment=0:30tgsxfc]PF GRAND SUMITOMO.jpg[/attachment:30tgsxfc] [b:30tgsxfc]11 October 2017: Property Perfect Plc. (PF) and Grande Asset Hotels and Property Plc. (GRAND) unveil the joint venture with "Sumitomo...

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    Business Insider Praises ‘KaDeWe’ and ‘la Rinascente’ ...

    By prnews, Created on: 06/10/2015, Last updated on: 06/10/2015

    » [b:1gjqq7au][size=150:1gjqq7au]Business Insider Praises ‘KaDeWe’ and ‘la Rinascente’ as Must-Visit Department Stores in Your Lifetime[/size:1gjqq7au][/b:1gjqq7au] [attachment=0:1gjqq7au]‘KaDeWe’-and-‘la-Rinascente’.jpg[/attachment:1gjqq7au] Being commended by the top international...

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    The First Time in Southeast Asia with ...

    By prnews, Created on: 08/07/2015, Last updated on: 08/07/2015

    » [b:12mnr5as][size=150:12mnr5as]The First Time in Southeast Asia with “Siam Center Presents BE@RBRICK World Wide Tour II” At Siam Center Today – 31 July, 2015[/size:12mnr5as][/b:12mnr5as] [attachment=0:12mnr5as]Siam-Center-Presents-BE@RBRICK-WORLD-WIDE-TOUR-II.jpg[/attachment:12mnr5as] [b:12mnr5as]Siam...

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    The Queen Sirikit Museum of Textiles, Grand Palace, Bangkok

    By prnews, Created on: 23/09/2013, Last updated on: 23/09/2013

    » Symposium Update **Early Bird Registration Discount Extended to 30 September** [attachment=0:17bz7alj]The Queen Sirikit Museum of Textiles.jpg[/attachment:17bz7alj] Weaving Royal Traditions through Time: Textiles and Dress at the Thai Court and Beyond is the Queen Sirikit Museum of Textiles’...

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    Bangkok tops 2013 Travellers’ Choice Destinations Awards

    By prnews, Created on: 10/07/2013, Last updated on: 10/07/2013

    » Receives Award for Best Tourist Destination in Asia [attachment=0:2w1eyupy]TripAdvisor 2013 Travellers’ Choice Destinations Awards.jpg[/attachment:2w1eyupy] Bangkok – M.R. Sukhumbhand Paribatra, Governor of Bangkok, recently presided over the ‘2013 Travellers’ Choice Destinations Award’...

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    Phillip Securities (Thailand) Plc has entered into an ...

    By prnews, Created on: 18/06/2012, Last updated on: 18/06/2012

    » [b:3bbc024o]Phillip Securities (Thailand) Plc has entered into an agreement with Horizon Software Bangkok Ltd,[/b:3bbc024o] for the deployment of a new trading platform that will become Phillip's core trading system. Horizon's platform is multi-market and supports both the Equities and Derivatives...

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    About Face.

    By Sean Moran, Created on: 14/10/2008, Last updated on: 13/04/2014

    » One olde axiom that comes to mind is, '[i:3b539sim]If you can't say something nice, then keep your mouth s.h.u.t.[/i:3b539sim]' Just a thread that pertains to one of the cultural differences one might notice in venturing from a typical 'westernised' society of the assertive kind to the shores of...

    • Sean Moran commented : [quote="fast eddy":2s9ochgo] To give a little more background on the Tokyo story it's important to understand one aspect of the 'face' concept Nippon style. To gain 'face' amongst their peers, Japanese youths adopt a 'trendy' style - be it heavy metal head, punk rock, rockabilly, skinheads et al. Indeed, you can go to Yoyogi Park, downtown Tokyo on a Sunday and see them all strut their stuff - it's absolutley amazing! Now the level of face is determined by how accurately you can carry off your adopted 'youth cult'. As a consequence, there is a massive industry built around importing the real deal, second hand/cast off clothes from these Western World cults and the Japanese snap them up. I saw a good documentary on ABC (yes Sean. I even get your government's national tv network in my lounge)on the history of jeans and the interviewed a Japanese youth who was a mailman by day but his 'thing' was collecting vintage Levi Jeans - the older the better. He had quite a collection stored in almost museum like conditions (lovingly wrapped in plastic bags having been pressed and washed). The point is that Japanese study pictures of ordinary western teens from magazines and faithfully set out to replicate the look to the exact detail! The more you commit to your chosen 'image' the more face you gain! So, my mate who was staggering back to his apartment after a night on the sake came across what looked like the most evil gang of skins on the planet. However, the key to note is that the look is only skin deep and they have no affinity to the mind-set of their chosen 'look'. It is essential to understand this. Though they look the spit of Sid Vicious they really are pussycats with no attitude whatsoever. This is no word of a lie. To underscore this fact, I had a one to one lesson with a biker chick (before I got my first high school gig) and at the age of 33 and bored stiff of teaching Japanese girls/women who have the mentality of an 8 year old and still firmly attached to 'my little kitty', I thought "finally, someone I can have something of an adult conversation with". This chick looked straight out of the Hells Angels. So I began the lesson by talking to her with a little of the attitude you'd expect from a Hells Angels chick. She freaked out completely. The manageress had to come in and smooth things over - explain to her that I am a really nice guy and next week I start teaching at the local high school she attended some years before and (get this) move her into the tiny tots room which was full of cuddly toys. The manageress asked her if she'd like to have a cuddly toy to hold and she did - she chose the biggest Winnie the Pooh in the room!! I think this really has some bearing on the face issue we've talked of and though it maybe a little different from the Thai version, it is definitely a factor in Japan. Sean, you may want to check this out with in Japanese you know living in Perth. cheers Fast Eddy[/quote:2s9ochgo] Sub-cultures... The scope of this topic is expanding like a mushroom cloud! (a good one though. How about a magic mushroom cloud? ) No doubt that youth culture is founded in traditional culture and/or a mixture of various national styles, as you mention about the Levis denim hobby, the same as the skinhead - hell's angel - lolita trends. Conversely, if we look at the [i:2s9ochgo]establishment[/i:2s9ochgo] of today and then time-travel back twenty years to look at what the same highly-respected members of our societies were upto back then, it maybe that the crazes of today's youth culture are likely to have some influence on the establishment of the future. What might be seen as unacceptible by today's establishments but okay by the kids' rules might then become the societal norm when those kids grow up, if there's any good in it. That's the secret I reckon. To see cultures evolve positively, sometimes integrating facets of foreign principles providing those are good, while gradually dismissing some of the negatives of the past to the history books, although nothing could be more subjective and prone to differences of opinion when the time comes to decide on what is and isn't good. I'm glad that there's a God up there somewhere who can work those things out, because the job is too complex for me to work out. Probably goes much the same for all of us. As for Japanese folk living here in Perth, I don't know much about it. We Perthites have gone crazy about Japanese restaurants if that's any consolation. There's also no shortage of the same youth cultures here, like the skinheads and the mods and those sorts of artificial faces that help support the fashion industry, but my limited experience with Japanese exchange students here in Perth has almost always been with fairly conservative uni-students who seem to me to be content in Australia with simply being Japanese. I mean this respectfully. There are numerous sub-cultures of first-generation youth from different overseas regions, and we hear a bit on the news about multicultural events, be they formal celebrations or the occasional gang-wars. I'm too old for the nightlife scene thesedays so it's only on Saturday night television news that I ever hear of such things. Here in these apartments, the majority of residents are internationally born and most probably amazingly multilingual in total, but I suppose that with the cost of airfares thesedays, there's a need to sacrifice some of the home-grown fashion expenditure to save the fares to travel. I wonder how, if we assume that cultural standards are dynamic, if not quick to change, these trends in Japanese youth systems, and likewise Thai youth culture, will alter the established norms of tomorrow. One example that comes to mind is the variation of [i:2s9ochgo]khop khun[/i:2s9ochgo], [i:2s9ochgo]khop jai[/i:2s9ochgo]. I'm told that the latter is more the informal, younger generation word for [i:2s9ochgo]thank you[/i:2s9ochgo]. Will these sorts of changes become the standard in fifty years? I hope I'm not taking this too far off-topic here. The comparison you mention between Japan and Thailand is probably something that YOU should write a book about. All I really know about Japan is straight from James Clavell.

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