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Going green in klong san

Tue, 21 May 2013 17:00:00 GMT

Here's another chance to make your lifestyle more environmentally friendly. Visit the "Greener Klong San" fair at Somdet Chaopraya Institute of Psychiatry on May 31 and June 1.

GOODBYE, GURNEY'S PITTA

Tue, 21 May 2013 17:00:00 GMT

From May to October every year, the Gurney's pitta (Pitta gurneyi), one of Thailand's protected wild animals, have their breeding season. Their last remaining habitat in the Kingdom is a small fragment of the last lowland tropical forest in southern Thailand, near the boundary of Khao Pra-Bang Khram Wildlife Sanctuary in Tambon Klong Thom Nua, Khlong Thom district, Krabi.

An injection of colour

Tue, 21 May 2013 17:00:00 GMT

Ithought of many different ways to write this Sumanee Guna-Kasem article. But in the end I decided to be as straightforward as possible since honesty is possibly one thing that a woman who has everything, a woman as rich as King Solomon, would appreciate.

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Tue, 21 May 2013 17:00:00 GMT

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What is it,mum?

Tue, 21 May 2013 17:00:00 GMT

During a recent weekend, a regular Hua Hin vacationer decided to take Phetkasem Road rather than Rama II Road as usual. Passing Phra Pathom Chedi, his mind turned to having lunch at Ratchaburi's Muang district. Nothing but its famed pork noodles with half a boiled egg as the major temptation.

Cannes and misdemeanours

Tue, 21 May 2013 17:00:00 GMT

At the 66th Cannes film Festival, off-screen drama attempts to steal the limelight from on-screen offerings. Last Friday, the news of a diamond robbery at a hotel room from which a burglar made off with US$1 million (about 30 million baht) worth of Chopard jewellery astonished (and amused) festival-goers; the crime took pace hours after the screening of Sofia Coppola's The Bling Ring, about brazen...

Out of sight, out of China

Tue, 21 May 2013 17:00:00 GMT

Tang Contemporary Art, the famed gallery that specialises in Chinese and Thai contemporary art, invites you to explore the "Out of Sight" exhibition.It showcases the latest works by five upcoming Chinese artists who were born in the late '70s and early '80s.

Goodbye, Gurney's pitta

Tue, 21 May 2013 17:00:00 GMT

SENNHEISER IE 800

Tue, 21 May 2013 17:00:00 GMT

The Sennheiser IE 800 is a very small but invaluable breakthrough, a dynamic linear-phase driver with extremely wide bandwidth (XWB) transducer system. With a diameter of only 7mm, it is currently the smallest XWB sound transducer available with dynamic ear canal phones and promises distortion-free sound. The IE 800 features oval-shaped ear adaptors for maximum comfort, two protective meshes (one...

There's no truth, There's only cinema

Tue, 21 May 2013 17:00:00 GMT

Cambodian director Rithy Panh's new documentary film pays tribute to and questions the power of image. With a tender, evocative and self-reflective tone, the film is about images that can be shown and that cannot, that should be seen and that should not, that are lost and that are found, that are touchable and that are invisible, that are ethically dubious and that are movingly, irredeemably...

Curb your enthusiasm

Tue, 21 May 2013 17:00:00 GMT

If reactions are any indication, the most exciting news of the week was Samsung sending a 1 gigabit signal across 2km. This was apparently based on what 5G technology may look like. If the pundits are anything to go by, Asia has essentially bypassed 4G and is eagerly awaiting 5G to hit the streets. It will have to wait a while as the Samsung exercise was just a demo of proof of concept. As of...

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Tue, 21 May 2013 17:00:00 GMT

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What is it,mum?

Tue, 21 May 2013 17:00:00 GMT

Cannes and misdemeanours

Tue, 21 May 2013 17:00:00 GMT

Relics from India focus of Buddhist celebration

Tue, 21 May 2013 17:00:00 GMT

To mark Visakha Bucha Day, which falls on Friday, Seacon Bangkae is hosting an event called "Auspicious Visakha Bucha" at which local Buddhists will be given a rare opportunity to pay respect to relics of the Lord Buddha brought especially from India.

Keep clam and carry on

Tue, 21 May 2013 17:00:00 GMT

Contestants on wooden planks clam up and collect cockles in a mud sea bed at an annual event at Bang Taboon Bay in Phetchaburi's Ban Laem district.

Out of sight, out of China

Tue, 21 May 2013 17:00:00 GMT

Going green in klong san

Tue, 21 May 2013 17:00:00 GMT

Here's another chance to make your lifestyle more environmentally friendly. Visit the "Greener Klong San" fair at Somdet Chaopraya Institute of Psychiatry on May 31 and June 1.

The perils of overenthusiastic parenting

Tue, 21 May 2013 17:00:00 GMT

A nasty week of traffic congestion signals that school has already reopened. Children are busy with books and engaged with their school activities while parents help them choose their classes.

THERE'S NO TRUTH, THERE'S ONLY CINEMA

Tue, 21 May 2013 17:00:00 GMT

Home is where the help is

Mon, 20 May 2013 17:00:00 GMT

The first thing that greets an outsider who steps into the small patch of garden under Saphan Phut (Memorial Bridge) is a strong stench of urine. Male underwear is strewn carelessly on the ground, while a toddler plays by himself _ not in a crib, but in a battered foam box. There is no roof. There is no toilet. There is no furniture except for a few floor mats.

Pregnancy weight gain isn't a pain

Mon, 20 May 2013 17:00:00 GMT

Whether you like it or not, gaining weight during pregnancy is inevitable. The growth and development of babies depend on it. However, there is no one-size-fits-all solution to pregnancy weight gain. How much weight you need to gain depends on various factors.

A whole lotta soul

Mon, 20 May 2013 17:00:00 GMT

James Brown, the "Godfather of Soul", would have been 80 this year. Perhaps being the "hardest working man in show business" finally caught up with him _ in 2006, at the age of 73, one of the greatest popular music icons of the 20th century passed away.

Sin and the art of redemptive violence

Mon, 20 May 2013 17:00:00 GMT

Sitting in the courtyard of the Carlton Hotel in Cannes, Chinese filmmaker Jia Zhangke talks about violence _ the violence in his new movie that is riding a wave of critical favour at the world's biggest film festival, and the real violence back in his home country where the unstoppable motor of progress has brought on many changes, good and otherwise.

Rocking the orchestra

Mon, 20 May 2013 17:00:00 GMT

On a surface Thanachai "Pod" Ujjin of Moderndog fame is far removed from the orchestral world. As an alternative rock luminary, Thanachai and his bandmates May-T Noijinda and Pawin Suwannacheep have paved the way for many aspiring, outside-the-box musicians.