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  20 Jun 2013 : Young designers looking for a way to express their creativity outside the usual "brief" formula are invited to enter the Fenn Young Designers Award 2013, which returns with the theme, "A New Learning Environment".

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  EXHIBITION A glimpse into art collaboration

  20 Jun 2013 : Siam Center: The Ideaopolis, Bangkok's leading shopping arena with its emphasis on art, fashion, trends, technology, and lifestyle, launches the "Siam Center Idea Avenue: Collaboration", an art exhibition showcasing more than 100 pieces from well-known Thai artists and fashion designers, as well as unique collectible items from world-famous luxury fashion brands.

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  An elemental approach to French-German concert

  20 Jun 2013 : The Thailand Inter-University Choir and Orchestra under the baton of Henri Pompidor are celebrating the 50th anniversary of the Elysee Treaty and friendship between France and Germany with a classical concert.

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  Pucker up for the kiss of an angel

  20 Jun 2013 : South Korean actress Park Shin-hye will be in Bangkok to meet her fans for the first time on Saturday.

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  CULTURE

  Pretty damn cool

  20 Jun 2013 : It's never been this complicated to sort out a photograph to accompany an article. But Damn magazine editor-in-chief Chatchawan Munsutrukskool is anything but plain.

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  INTERVIEW

  Courting tourists

  20 Jun 2013 : Tourism and Sports Minister Somsak Pureesrisak comes across as a man of conviction. The 61-year-old has come a long way since embarking on a political career which began at the Interior Ministry in 1977. He was deputy governor of Ang Thong and Suphan Buri and governor of Suphan Buri for seven years before taking the ministerial job in April.

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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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  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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  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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  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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  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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