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  Finding faith in few words

  14/02/2012 : If God is great and benevolent, why does s/he cause pain and calamity to Earth in the form of natural disaster? Those who cannot find answers turn to the probable empirical evidence called science that to some certain extent demystifies natural phenomena.

• Magazine design contest

  14/02/2012 : HP invites interested high-school students to enter the ''HP Smart Magazine Contest'' to vie for scholarships worth more than 200,000 baht and many other prizes.

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  DVD REVIEW

  Peeking into the past

  03/02/2012 : In her book, On Photography, Susan Sontag pointed out that the passage of time often readjusts the aspects of a photograph that we find interesting. When looking at an old photo of someone's remote relative, taken in the 1880s or 1890s, the face of the person represented may be the first thing we look at, but often the clothing is what really draws the attention, or the furniture, knick-knacks sitting on shelves or tabletops, books on shelves, lamps or wallpaper, things that would have been taken for granted by the person who took the photo.

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  A solitary pictorial quest

  03/02/2012 : The National Gallery presents "Retrospective", which showcases more than 100 acrylic on canvas paintings created over the past 30 years by Thai artist Pakitsilp Varamissara.

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  The power of suggestion

  02/02/2012 : A man loses his daughter to a car. Nothing now is what it is. It's like he's in a play _ but he doesn't know the words or the moves. The man who was driving the car is a stage hypnotist.

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  One-day music fest in Singapore

  02/02/2012 : Trust Singapore to get the best bands and deejays! On Feb 12 the St Jerome's Laneway Festival will roll into the land of the Merlion for the second time.

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  Music extravaganza finally on

  02/02/2012 : Fat Radio 104.5 will hold the highly-anticipated "Krating Daeng Fat Fest Krungthep", postponed from last year due to the floods, on Feb 11-12 at the Lakeside, Muang Thong Thani, from 4-10pm on both days.

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  Theatre as a mirror

  02/02/2012 : We asked a number of local playwrights, directors and performers to pick a play they believe speaks about present-day Thailand. The play could be thousands of years old or recently written. We didn't limit the choice to works originally written in Thai.

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  Lifescapes returns

  01/02/2012 : Southeast Asian cinema seems to be finally asserting its relevance. Starting tomorrow, in Chiang Mai, the Lifescapes Film Festival will be offering a four-day showcase of Southeast Asian perspectives, with movies from Cambodia, Laos, Vietnam, Myanmar and Thailand.

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  Thammasat film schedule

  01/02/2012 : Here's the schedule for "Movie Talk", a screening of films selected by Songyote Waeohongsa, for the month of February. The films will be shown every Thursday starting 5pm at the Rewat Buddhinan activity room, Thammasat University's Pridi Banomyong Library, Ta Phra Chan campus.

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  Film festival needs direction

  01/02/2012 : If the Red Carpet works, the film festival works. That seems to be the motto of the hype machine behind last weekend's Hua Hin International Film Festival, which proudly paraded stars down the sandy, horse-free beach of the InterContinental while the cinemas were haunted by ghosts. Nothing's wrong with using a movie festival to support tourism, as long as some attention is paid to what it's all about: film, and the film-going experience.

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  ART INTERVIEW

  Drawn to his career

  01/02/2012 : Illustrator Pierre Le-Tan is a man of few words. Like every single line in his meticulous drawings, he is very careful with the words he uses, but his every answer is delivered with honesty and emotion.

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