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Phuket TV - PHUKET XTRA: VIDEO: Tourism tax on the table? New government coming soon? Death in military compound! || May 24

Phuket TV - PHUKET XTRA: VIDEO: Tourism tax on the table? New government coming soon? Death in military compound! || May 24

Meet the Phuketian cooking up a storm on MasterChef Thailand

Meet the Phuketian cooking up a storm on MasterChef Thailand

The unusual music career of Prayut Chan-o-cha

The unusual music career of Prayut Chan-o-cha

Jimmy Carr to perform two shows in Bangkok on Mar 29

Jimmy Carr to perform two shows in Bangkok on Mar 29

Witchfinder General

Witchfinder General

Salem’s Lot: The slow and painful death of modern man

Salem’s Lot: The slow and painful death of modern man

Joey Chou announced as new Asia Pop 40 host

Joey Chou announced as new Asia Pop 40 host
Meet the Phuketian cooking up a storm on MasterChef Thailand
Meet the Phuketian cooking up a storm on MasterChef Thailand
Sunday 31 March 2019, 10:00AM
The Phuket News speaks to Jitsak Lim-Pa­kornkul, known as Gino, the sequined and stylish Phuket native wowing MasterChef Thailand judges with forgotten flavours of the South. He talks cracking crustaceans, restau­rant rarities and his rise from home cook to Branding and Communications Manager to contestant chef on the hit TV show.
The unusual music career of Prayut Chan-o-cha
The unusual music career of Prayut Chan-o-cha
Saturday 23 March 2019, 02:00PM
As Thailand goes to the polls, it’s difficult to say exactly what honorific or position Prayut Chan-o-cha will have by the time the week is out. Whatever the outcome, though, what we can say is that he’s a pop star… kind of.
Jimmy Carr to perform two shows in Bangkok on Mar 29
Jimmy Carr to perform two shows in Bangkok on Mar 29
Wednesday 20 March 2019, 09:37AM
The Comedy Club Bangkok, Chambers Touring and Singha are proud to announce the return of Jimmy Carr, one of Britain’s most respected and best-loved comedians.
Witchfinder General
Witchfinder General
Sunday 17 March 2019, 01:45PM
Last week, The Phuket News published an article titled ’Salem’s Lot’, which challenged the ’trial by media’ aspect of the #MeToo movement. Here, Tyler Roney, a Bangkok-based writer and editor and currently the editor-in-chief of the travel magazine Travelogues from luxury tour designer Remote Lands, gives his appraisal of that article and the arguments proposed therein.
Salem’s Lot: The slow and painful death of modern man
Salem’s Lot: The slow and painful death of modern man
Saturday 16 March 2019, 05:30PM
What do you call a male witch? A wizard? Warlock? The word ‘witch’ derives from the Old English nouns wicca (male) and wicce (female). A witch can be both male or female in form.
Joey Chou announced as new Asia Pop 40 host
Joey Chou announced as new Asia Pop 40 host
Thursday 28 February 2019, 03:00PM
EON Media Group of Singapore announced today that its weekly flagship radio programme, Asia Pop 40, has a new host from this weekend. Taiwanese-Canadian radio jockey Joey Chou is the new voice of Asia Pop 40, replacing Dom Lau who has hosted Asia Pop 40 since it commenced airing in mid-2013.
Ladies’ night at the Grammys: the performances
Ladies’ night at the Grammys: the performances
Tuesday 12 February 2019, 11:42AM
The Grammys gala in Los Angeles on Sunday was a night for girl power, and music’s top stars delivered with a series of powerful performances – some of them edgy, some simply glorious.
Pretty Neat: Hit series proves that a tidy house really does equal a tidy mind
Pretty Neat: Hit series proves that a tidy house really does equal a tidy mind
Sunday 3 February 2019, 11:00AM
I was a bit of a strange child. I used to, and still do, enjoy tidying; actively taking pleasure in it. During school holidays, I would, without prompt, take an entire day out to declutter, rearrange and clean my room then wait impatiently for my dad to return from work so I could show off the transformation. (Envious parents please note I was a little terror in other ways…)
Asia Pop 40 announces Asia’s No. 1 song, No. 1 group and No. 1 artist for 2018
Asia Pop 40 announces Asia’s No. 1 song, No. 1 group and No. 1 artist for 2018
Friday 1 February 2019, 10:08AM
Asia’s first locally-produced, regionally-syndicated music chart programme has announced its awards for No. 1 Song, No. 1 Group and No. 1 Artist in Asia for 2018.
Asia Pop 40 counts down the top 140 songs in Asia of 2018
Asia Pop 40 counts down the top 140 songs in Asia of 2018
Sunday 20 January 2019, 10:00AM
Throughout January, the re­gion’s first and only syndi­cated radio chart countdown programme, Asia Pop 40, will once again count down the most popular 140 songs from 2018 over four weekly episodes.
What we watched in 2018: The great and the good from the silver screen, TV and phone screen
What we watched in 2018: The great and the good from the silver screen, TV and phone screen
Monday 14 January 2019, 02:00PM
The highest-grossing film of 2018 in Thailand was Aveng­ers: Infinity War. In Bangkok, the Disney/Marvel superhero jamboree made B420 million, a new high for Hollywood film. The total receipt from the whole country is around B700 million. Let’s see if the final Avengers film that will come out in May will beat that.
Last words on the Universe - Hawking’s final book offers brief answers to big questions
Last words on the Universe - Hawking’s final book offers brief answers to big questions
Saturday 8 December 2018, 02:00PM
Stephen Hawking’s final work, which tackles issues from the existence of God to the potential for time travel, was launched in October by his children, who helped complete the book after the British astrophysics giant’s death.
Epic Quest - Disney’s game for the Southeast Asian market and culture
Epic Quest - Disney’s game for the Southeast Asian market and culture
Saturday 1 December 2018, 02:00PM
The Walt Disney Company Southeast Asia provides a first look at Disney Epic Quest, a mobile game developed and released specifically for Southeast Asian players.
A Kind of Magic - The triumphant and tragic story of Freddie Mercury
A Kind of Magic - The triumphant and tragic story of Freddie Mercury
Saturday 17 November 2018, 10:00AM
The word ‘talent’ has become an oxymoron, literally replaced by ‘moron’. In a world where celebrities are ten-a-penny and earn their stardom stripes by such trivia as bearing their empty lives on soul-less and never-ending live TV shows and Twitter streams or eating grubs in a jungle, it’s no wonder we yearn for yesteryear’s true talent.
Halloween Special - It’s a dog’s afterlife
Halloween Special - It’s a dog’s afterlife
Saturday 27 October 2018, 11:00AM
Everyone loves to get a little spooked at Halloween. Whilst the cinemas tend to show adult ‘shock’ flicks to bring in the big kids looking for something a little meatier, it does leave the smaller ones with little more to do on this festive occasion than wreak havoc on the neighbours in penance for not handing over their candy stash.
Dua Lipa: Dark-pop delight
Dua Lipa: Dark-pop delight
Saturday 29 September 2018, 10:00AM
London has always been a fertile ground for female popstrels. In recent years we’ve seen Amy Winehouse, Adele and Rita Ora rise up, crack America and then take on the world. And after Monday night’s show at GMM Live House in CentralWorld, Bangkok, it looks like Dua Lipa has a firm grasp on England’s Queen of Pop crown.
Last Punk Standing: The new Vivienne Westwood documentary
Last Punk Standing: The new Vivienne Westwood documentary
Saturday 22 September 2018, 10:00AM
What was the genesis of the Punk movement? Fashion or music? Certainly it caught the wider media and public attention from the anarchistic explosion onto the music scene of The Sex Pistols in 1976, and their only studio album, Never Mind the Bollocks, Here’s the Sex Pistols, in 1977.
The trivial villain
The trivial villain
Saturday 28 July 2018, 09:00AM
Skyscraper is the new Hollywood action blockbuster starring the highly bankable Dwayne Johnson. Affirmed from the recently published Forbes annual list of the world’s best-paid celebrities, The Rock rolled in fifth, earning a mountainous $124m US in acting-related duties last year alone.
Hollywood stars declare war on sexual misconduct at Globes
Hollywood stars declare war on sexual misconduct at Globes
Tuesday 9 January 2018, 09:26AM
Hollywood spoke with one voice at the Golden Globes on Sunday to declare war on the film industry's culture of sexual harassment and abuse, as it kicked off its annual awards season on a rare serious note.
Liam Gallagher: I'm definitely maybe misunderstood
Liam Gallagher: I'm definitely maybe misunderstood
Friday 6 October 2017, 09:30AM
Liam Gallagher has a confession to make. "I am this big-mouthed guy who comes out with rude stuff." But the former Oasis frontman, whose name seems forever associated with the phrase "foul-mouthed rant", insists that he is misunderstood. "I am also a guy who is full of melancholy," the singer told AFP as his first solo album "As You Were" comes out Friday. "There is a sadness deep inside me. I am that kind of guy. I am not here to talk about my state of mind but, hey, I have the right to, haven't I?" Life has not been a bed of roses for the younger of the two Gallagher brothers since the break-up of the Manchester band, which during their 1990s pomp boasted to being "bigger than The Beatles". Their spectacular implosion minutes before they were due on stage at the Rock en Seine festival near Paris in 2009 has gone down in music legend. Liam apparently threw a plum at his older brother Noel and the two started fighting backstage, with Liam picking up Noel's guitar and "wielding it like an axe". The brothers have since mostly communicated by trading insults in public.   'Last four years were tough' "It's real, real good to come back after all these years," said Liam, now 45 and a father of four. "The last four years were very tough for me personally," he said, referring to his divorce from his second wife, Nicole Appleton, the former All Saints star. Artistically there's not been much morning glory either. His attempt to rekindle Oasis's strutting magic with two other former band members petered out in 2014 after what he admitted were "two failed albums". But now he is back and raring to make the critics eat their words. He boasted in an interview with AFP -- peppered with expletives -- that he can write "good songs" and "good albums". He said he can almost hear the detractors sharpening their knives. In an interview with GQ magazine in August, he suggested critics would be mocking him for his two divorces, illegitimate children, with "two failed bands behind him, three bad haircuts". But his new album, "As You Were", is full of "good songs, good vocals, rock 'n' roll, mate", he insisted. "Stuff you won't have to think too much about." He said it has no long guitar solos, no drum solos, "no mad wizardy keyboard, just bang-in-your-face". "It's good," he declared. Gallagher said that if the album doesn't go down well "I don't know what I'll do", hinting he might quit altogether.   Insulting Noel on Twitter While Liam, who brought his dark onstage charisma to Oasis, has been struggling, Noel, who had the songwriting talent, has been thriving. His two solo albums "Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds" and the tellingly-titled "Chasing Yesterday" have been both warmly received. Which has got to be galling for his younger brother given their love-hate competitive relationship? "I never thought about people comparing what I do with Noel's work," Liam told AFP in a telephone interview. Yet it is hard to ignore the timing of his album's release -- only six weeks before Noel's third album "Who Built the Moon?" With both with albums and tours to promote, the Gallagher brothers are butting heads again -- or at least Liam is. He tried to wind up his brother with a series of tweets on Friday, alleging poor ticket sales for one of Noel's shows next April in Britain. "So Mr Kiss Arse struggling to sell tickets in Nottingham ha ha ha ha. Come and open for me if you want. Will be like the good old days." Hours earlier he had ridiculed his brother's American fans. "You lot need your heads testing" for being willing to pay "350 dollars to go and see rkid (my brother) in the USA". Noel -- now 50 -- held his tongue, as is his wont these days. A silence which spills over into their private dealings. "We do not speak anymore," Liam told AFP. "And to be honest at this moment I don't couldn't care less." But blood is thicker than water, and Liam has not given up completely on the idea of an Oasis reunion, even though his older brother is notably more reticent. Noel recently complained that "every day people try to Jedi mind-trick me" into getting the band together again. But for now he said he was happy to go it alone, insisting he was still "totally awesome". Asked by Rolling Stone magazine if he might be tempted for $50 million in a decade's time, he replied, "I'm in!" In the meantime, Liam Gallagher is resigned to wait. "If one day he wants to reform the band -- because it was him who left -- I am ready," he said. "I am hopeful that one day it will happen."
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