It was early morning when I felt moist grass beneath my bare feet. Surrounded by trees, I closed my eyes and walked down the yard. I concentrated on breathing, but my mind kept wandering elsewhere. Burdened by the past and the future, I'm never able to live in the moment.
DEAR DOCTORS: Our grandfather is having memory problems, and my mum is trying to get him to eat more fish. I know fish is called "brain food", but my mum says she has heard on the news that fish keeps you from getting dementia. Is this true? What about fish and mercury?
To mark Francophonie month, which is celebrated every year around the world in March, Alliance Française de Bangkok features diverse events and activities that aim to promote the French language and bring like-minded people together.
Buddhist monks have behaved aggressively, sold and used drugs, and been involved in sexual misconduct. This is the news viewers often hear from the media. While many monks have disappointed Buddhists, a virtual monk, Phra Maha AI or AI Monk, created quite a buzz when launched on social media.
Offering great products is now no longer enough for beauty brands to survive, according to Mintel. Consumers expect companies to have a real purpose and use their power to help engender genuine social change.
In the digital era of today, many people use smartphones and social media for myriad activities. Content such as posts, fan comments, number of likes and followers, including the selfie phenomenon provides a different interpretation of beauty, sexiness, attractiveness and appropriation. This might lead to false self-esteem, particularly among young users.
"The Idols Of Utopia" is a group exhibition that presents idols and the boundless imaginations of four artists, at River City Bangkok's RCB Galleria 3, Charoen Krung 24, until April 24.
A personal perspective on Myanmar one year after the coup by Sawangwongse Yawnghwe, a Myanmar artist based in the Netherlands, is presented during "The Broken White Umbrella" exhibition, at Nova Contemporary, until April 30.
Following a long delay, the cabinet is expected to set the date for the Bangkok governor election for May 29, according to news reports. To say that it's long-awaited is an understatement.
Approximately 20% of the planet's vertebrate and plant species are found only in the Asean region and nowhere else in the world. Home to four biodiversity hotspots and three of the 17 megadiverse countries in the world, Asean has extraordinarily high levels of richness of species and endemism.
Can Asean and the US forge a "more united than ever" relationship for the future?
One woman fled with her army officer husband who defected after the military coup of Feb 1, 2021, to Myanmar's borderlands. A mother prays for the safety of her son fighting the army with the People's Defence Forces (PDFs). An entrepreneur uses her business acumen to raise funds for the anti-military struggle while an activist helps women affected by conflict.
Today marks International Women's Day, which was first announced by the United Nations in 1975.
The government should pay more attention to metaverse development as a potential technology to help rehabilitate the Thai economy, says the National Economic and Social Development Council (NESDC).
Centara Hotels and Resorts wants to open 100 new hotels within five years, spanning Thailand, neighbouring countries, China and the Middle East, with most of them under management agreements.
Line Thailand is gearing up for consumer business restructuring by reaching out to more video calling services, such as telehealth, while driving creators' businesses by tapping into non-fungible tokens (NFTs) for growth.
Despite persistent Covid-19 outbreaks and a war in Eastern Europe, consumer goods producer Berli Jucker Plc (BJC) announced yesterday a budget of about 15 billion baht to expand its business and develop new retail models this year.
Green manufacturing is driving more business for SET-listed Siam Cement Group (SCG), Thailand's largest cement maker and industrial conglomerate, as it is eager to use more clean energy, develop environmentally friendly products and utilise electric vehicles (EVs).
Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha on Monday urged the public to cut back on energy consumption, especially when using private cars, amid soaring oil prices. Gen Prayut said the government would do its best to cushion the impact.
One of the best things about kids is that they usually don’t have a large enough frame of reference to understand just how terrible the world can truly be. With only a bit of life experience behind them, their tiny, still-developing minds might think that dropping an ice cream cone is an apocalyptic event or that the…
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Since first laying eyes on Saturday Night Live’s “Meatballs” sketch on Sunday morning, I have rewatched the four-minute video no fewer than 20 times. It’s endlessly entertaining, not just because of its complete originality—there’s a zero percent chance anyone else had this idea before it aired—but because meatballs…
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The early to mid-2000s were an odd time for American automakers. They were getting their groove back, the economy was booming, people had the money for toys, and toys with retro styling were all the rage. Not all of these toys were good ideas though. Questionable choices were made by automakers during this time. Take…
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Apparently, it’s a big day for post-apocalyptic shows set in Manhattan. Mere hours after the news broke of a new Walking Dead show with that premise, the first trailer for DC’s upcoming HBO Max show DMZ is here. In it, Rosario Dawson plays a mom who goes into the demilitarized zone once known as New York City to find…
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