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  Cleo's Making Faces breaks records

  19 Jun 2013 : The Fashion Hall at Siam Paragon was crowded with more than 500 girls waiting to get a makeover on Saturday.

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  Inevitable exhibition of international collaboration

  19 Jun 2013 : When eight artists from four different countries collaborate, maybe it's inevitable that the end result is imperfect.

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  Pandora's paradox

  19 Jun 2013 : This coming Monday, June 24, marks the 81st anniversary of the birth of democracy in Thailand. It's been a rough road we've taken since the 1932 Revolution, followed by subsequent coups and counter-coups, the decades of dictatorship, the student uprisings, the money politics and the complication of visible and invisible forces, right up to our deep divides of now. All of these are presented in an ambitious documentary film to be released on Monday. Prachathipathai, or Paradoxocracy, chronicles and comments on the eight-decade journey of Thai-style democracy whose past is sometimes forgotten and whose future is always uncertain.

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  Beating the drum for performances by a Better-Than-Ok chorale

  19 Jun 2013 : To celebrate the 180th anniversary of diplomatic relations between Thailand and the US, the Yonok Foundation and the American-Thai Foundation are staging a concert by the Stanford Chamber Chorale plus a sensational performance by Stanford Taiko, an ensemble of student drummers from the same university.

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  Monkey business

  19 Jun 2013 : The icon of Lop Buri province is the sandstone Phra Prang Sam Yod temple, and the icons of the temple are the crawling, shrieking hordes of macaques. These days, the monkeys' main source of food is gained by posing with tourists in the hope of being fed scraps, since it's getting nearly impossible for the animals to find food naturally. The famous macaque banquet, when the city throws a lavish buffet for the creatures, takes place in November. During the rest of the year, the macaques mostly rely on the mercy of strangers.

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  ARTSCENE

  Galerie N

  19 Jun 2013 : 139/5 Witthayu Road Tue-Sun, 10am-7pm July 23-Aug 23 Call 086-601-7111

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  The why of kwai

  19 Jun 2013 : In Thai, the easiest way to insult someone is to call them kwai _ a buffalo, our beast of burden that has come to symbolise, unfairly, stupidity.

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  The water of life

  18 Jun 2013 : When Nidda Hongwiwat's husband injured himself at a historic site in India years ago, locals immediately wanted to take him to hospital. They were astonished when Nidda asked them, "Where is the toilet?"

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  Hands-on Italian cooking classes

  18 Jun 2013 : If you're really passionate about Italian cuisine and would like to get some hands-on experience of preparing dishes yourself, Dusit Thani College has some good news. It is organising a series of two-day "Best of Italian" courses in Bangkok, starting next month.

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  DJs for dinner

  18 Jun 2013 : This performance might be hard to compute without being there. Jul & Co, a French duo, are multi-instrumentalists and DJs who combine a live laptop feed with keyboards, trumpets, talk-box singing, flutes and drums.

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  WORLD BEAT

  Rumble in the jungle

  18 Jun 2013 : The annual Rainforest World Music Festival, set in the lush jungles of Sarawak, Malaysia, is set for a three-day weekend of music and dance from June 26-28 at the Cultural Village, just outside the state capital, Kuching. The region's premier world music event has recently garnered awards, and for the fourth year running was on Songline magazine's list of 25 top international music festivals.

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  GUEST COLUMN

  The arteries of your heart need TLC

  18 Jun 2013 : Ischemic heart disease and coronary heart disease are sometimes confused because the two conditions share similarities. The first term is used to describe a situation whereby there is insufficient blood flow to some areas of the heart; it does not necessarily mean there is a blockage.

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