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Nature’s call
A young boy participating in a turtle release event on Layan Beach, Phuket. With steady hands and quickening steps, we carried the green sea turtles one-by-one to the beach. The turtles were flapping...
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Starbucks sued for adding too much ice to drinks
A Starbucks coffee shop at Suvarnabhumi airport. (Photo by Somchai Poomlard) Related Stories A Chicago woman is suing Starbucks for more than US$5 million, claiming the coffee giant is underfilling...
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Rolling Stones, Paul McCartney plan six-band oldsters’‘mega concert’ for October
LOS ANGELES – The Rolling Stones, Bob Dylan, Paul McCartney, Neil Young, Roger Waters and The Who will perform at a mega festival in October, organisers said Tuesday. Rolling Stones frontman Mick...
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‘Q mark’ rated fruits, veggies fail toxic residue tests
A woman tends to her watermelons at her farm in Buri Ram province in March. (Bangkok Post file photo) Related Stories Cabbages and watermelons, often regarded as pesticide-contaminated, turn out to be...
View ArticleNYC art auction season to kick off, break a taboo
Some 1,500 artworks are to go under the gavel over the course of five days of auctions expected to fetch more than a billion dollars. The most important ones will be held in the evening, three hosted...
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Addiction specialist rushed to see Prince before death
NEW YORK – A specialist in painkiller addiction was rushing to see Prince before the music legend’s death but arrived too late, a lawyer for the doctor said Wednesday. Messages left by fans outside...
View ArticleHow the other half lives
FIRST CAME US President Barack Obama and the Rolling Stones. And on Tuesday – yesterday Bangkok time – global fashion’s glitterati, including supermodel Gisele Bundchen, descended on Cuba for Chanel’s...
View ArticleNo easy way out
THANKS TO ITS welcome diversity in programming, Thong Lor Art Space is a great place to visit on a regular basis. Just like the vibe from the restaurants, bars and nightspots for which this...
View ArticleFarewell to Plateau
CHINESE ARTIST Liu Wei has been at the centre of controversy in the Chinese contemporary art world. In 1999, he and fellow artists put up a radical exhibition that displayed a dead foetus on an ice...
View ArticleShakespeare hits the beach
SOONTAREE “Angie” Balek has returned from New York fashion society with her famous brand AB by Angelys Balek New York and last week unveiled her spring-summer collection, “A Midsummer Night’s Dream”,...
View ArticleA big bang for the Bay
THE SAN FRANCISCO Museum of Modern Art reopens in the middle of this month after an ambitious $305 million (Bt1.06 billion) expansion and facelift that aims to rival the world-class art spaces of New...
View ArticleNothing fishy |about these shoes
COLETTE LARRABURUAGENCE FRANCE-PRESSEMAULION-LICHARRE, FRANCE May 5, 2016 1:00 am LET THE scales fall from your eyes… A French shoe manufacturer is urging fashionistas to take the plunge with what he...
View ArticlePeter finally shows up, promptly leaves again
AMAZINGLY, IN THE year since we last listened in (feeling just a little bit guilty), Ploypan “Ploy” Dyrendal never heard what she wanted to hear from her estranged husband, the actor-singer Peter Corp...
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Intimate opera keeps Anne Frank’s spirit alive
The Diary Of Anne Frank. According to Aristotle, pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work, and Bangkok Opera’s powerful performance of The Diary Of Anne Frank, an opera by Russian composer...
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Twinkling stars
Around 13.8 billion years ago, when the Big Bang gave birth to the universe, stars were formed. Then, time after time, substances that are known as primordial minerals — what make up the stellar bodies...
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Life’s a beach when you’re cycling
The Bangkok Bike Thailand Challenge 2016, a 77.2km race, will be held in Cha-am, Phetchaburi, on May 29. Organised for the second year, the event is hosted by the Tourism Authority of Thailand, NCC...
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Family jewels
Designing fine jewellery runs in the Rozendaal family, but only male members apparently possess this inherited trait. Roos founder and designer Rien Rozendaal. “I have three sisters but none of them...
View ArticlePOTENT pairings
NOW IN ITS third successful year, Mekhong Elite Table returned recently with the first in its cocktail pairing feasts for 2016 at So ASEAN Cafe on Ratchadapisek Road featuring three stellar dishes from...
View ArticleThe QUEEN MUM of pop
OLIVIA NEWTON-JOHN will forever remain best loved as Sandy in the 1978 big-screen musical adaptation of “Grease”, starring opposite John Travolta. And she’s tickled with that. But, as fans who saw her...
View ArticleRefreshed with a Riesling
TOAST THE SUMMER with a chilled glass of wine at Thailand’s first “Summer of Riesling” event being held at Riedel Wine Bar and Cellar on Thursday and featuring spectacular wines from various estates...
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