Message from the Tourism Authority of Thailand. Message from the Tourism Authority of Thailand on the occasion of S. Publishing 10th anniversary. We all know that Chiang Mai is the city that travelers both Thai and foreign value highly for its charm, extraordinary sites, and people. Also, the reputation for craftsmanship has made Chiang Mai become the center for exports in the North of Thailand. These are the reasons that visitors are impelled to come here again and again.
Therefore, information is always the priority for tourists. Publicizing and updating all events needs a professional helper of which S. Publishing Group Co. On the 10th Anniversary of S. You will also find information about sightseeing, trekking and historical sites, while we try to keep you abreast with the many festivals and other events that month by month make life in Chiang Mai so attractive. We hope this magazine proves as helpful as we intend it to be. So enjoy yourself here, and if you have any suggestions about improving this magazine, do write and let us know.
Sited approximately kms. The population is estimated to be , persons. Squat down, lie down, stand in the back of a pick-up, climb a ladder — anything! The other way to add interest to your photographs is to make sure the subject is one third in from either edge of the viewfinder. Put it one third from the top or one third from the bottom. As a rough rule of thumb, if the sky is interesting put more of it in the picture, but if it is featureless blue or grey include less of it.
The tipping point for melting of the Greenland ice sheet will probably be met during the next 20 to 50 years. The latest research indicates that glacier speed has almost doubled in the last decade. Complete melting might take millennia, but research suggests that once it begins to contract it may not expand again, even if atmospheric greenhouse gas concentrations were reduced back to pre-industrial levels.
Although debate continues, the growing body of evidence on greenhouse gases suggests that significant climate change is inevitable.
Even if we stopped producing greenhouse gas emissions immediately, we would still experience rising temperatures for decades to come and sea temperatures will continue to rise for many centuries, due to inertia in the climate system. However, evidence so far must lead us to conclude that some level of change has already occurred and that it will continue to occur, perhaps at a higher level than previously thought.
Polar bears are starving near the Arctic Circle. The U. Polar bears hunt their prey from sea ice, which has been declining steadily as the climate warms. Since , the late summer Arctic sea ice area has been shrinking by 7 percent per decade, while perennial sea ice has dropped by 9.
If shrinking ice caps lead to rising sea levels in excess of four metres, almost every coastal city in the world would be under water. Even small rises in sea levels are likely to create severe economic and demographic problems, since large populations are concentrated near present sea level. For example, rapid melt could have the effect of slowing major rivers, such as the Rhine, to a trickle.
The harmful effects of global warming on daily life are already showing up, and within a couple of decades hundreds of millions of people will not have enough water, according to many top scientists. An acute water crisis is looming. China, for example, is set to use up to 89 percent of its available water resources by Hundreds of millions of Africans and tens of millions of Latin Americans who now have water will be short of it in less than 20 years.
By , more than one billion people in Asia could face water shortages. By , water shortages could threaten 1. At the same time, tens of millions of others will be flooded out of their homes each year as the Earth reels from rising temperatures and sea levels, according to a draft of an international scientific report.
About million people a year could be flooded by by rising seas. Malaria and dengue fever, as well as illnesses from eating contaminated shellfish, are likely to grow. Are companies changing their business models in anticipation of changing consumer behaviour, due to global warming?
Whilst this slogan has generally been the rallying cry in the fight against at AIDS, it is no less relevant when referring to global warming.
The argument is that by opting to buy products that add an ethical or eco dimension to style, as opposed to products without one, consumers will drive the behaviour of big brands. But so what? Corporate self-interest can be a force for good. Indeed, Sustainability Advantage author Willard cites polls that show more than a fifth of potential job candidates are drawn to such companies.
His research also shows more concrete benefits from the adoption of eco-friendly corporate policies; reduced manufacturing expenses, increased market share, a better talent pool and higher productivity. To be continued…. The above data and research was compiled from sources believed to be reliable.
However, neither MBMG International Ltd nor its officers can accept any liability for any errors or omissions in the above article nor bear any responsibility for any losses achieved as a result of any actions taken or not taken as a consequence of reading the above article.
Test results on the last phase of AIDS vaccine trials currently being conducted by the Ministry of Public Health on 16, volunteers in two eastern provinces will be released in July, a senior ministry official said. Three possible courses of action are being considered, he said.
One, full-scale commercial vaccine production will proceed if the test results show a success rate of over 80 per cent. Second, tests for another two years will be required if a success rate of between per cent is registered, and third, the project will be scrapped if the success level is below 50 per cent.
All 16, volunteers are between the ages of 18 and 30, were HIV virus-free when they were selected and are residents of Rayong and Chon Buri provinces. We are still following the old paradigm and making the same sort of films, but aided by digital imaging the effects are literally far more spectacular. One guesses that greater changes lie ahead: the replacement of actors by stars which only exist in pixel form, movies with smells, and highly interactive films as computer games and cinema merge to give us virtual reality experiences we can only dream of now.
Modern techniques of reproduction also make it easier now to cater to niche markets and personalize goods. Perhaps one could make a standard ghost film and then tweak it to fit different audiences with their own conceptions of what a really scary phantom looks like.
How much more fun for local audiences to see amazing events take place in settings they are familiar with rather than the distant streets of New York, and how much easier to relate to people enjoying an afternoon on the river bank with grilled squid snacks and beer rather than some American equivalent. Then there is the monster, an imaginative mixture of fish and lizard.
I do not know how it was created, but it is realistic enough to pass muster and not impede the flow of the narrative. The film is much more than a horror movie; in fact, in many respects it does not belong to that genre. The monster is ugly, eats people and carries off the cute daughter of the rather lovably limited hero, but the film is certainly not scary.
In fact, plenty of the time it is quite comic. Family is clearly a major issue with the film-maker, as it is in any society, especially a Confucian one. At the start of the story we see a divided family, but it fast comes together to protect its own. Various other social and political issues are raised in the course of telling the tale.
The US military is depicted with some venom and the local authorities and bureaucrats are shown as soulless and incompetent. There is a strange sub-plot about a SARS type virus carried by the mutated creature [hence the English title]- but this turns out to be an unwarranted scare. Is this a satire of media- created frenzies with no actual substance?
Overall, the blame for the monster is put on people. The monster has its own grace and is only following its nature; there is nothing especially malevolent about it. The repeated scenes of people eating seafood are presumably intended to show us as no better in our standards of behaviour than any predator. Possibly the story has some allegorical meaning: separated siblings the two Koreas brought together by a monstrous event? Are hi-tech methods being rejected in favour of tradition?
Watching the film is slightly disorienting, but in the end fun. How much you will enjoy the experience probably depends in part on how much you are willing to be interested not only in the monster, but in Korean-ness. Vista — Kadsuankaew, 4th Floor Kadsuankaew, Telephone: , Times usually remain the same for entire week. Vista — 12 Huaykaew, Across from Kadsuankaew, Telephone: , Times usually remain the same for entire week.
Warning: For at least the last showing of the day, the actual starting time of the movie itself may be up to 15 minutes ahead of the scheduled time. If you like this sort of thing, Go!
Also in a Thai-dubbed version. You owe it to yourself to experience this film; you just might end up tremendously moved, and consider this one of the finest films ever made, as many have.
Do not take your young children to see it unless you want them to be scarred for life. Rated R in the US for graphic violence, language. An edgy thriller about a marksman framed as a Presidential assassin. Like The Good Shepherd, an angry warning against the government any government. For an action movie, terrific! I really like it, and have seen it twice. Very nicely acted by Wahlberg, good dialogue and plot. Rated R in the US for strong graphic violence, some language.
Pathfinder: US Action — One of the Viking expeditions to reach North America hundreds of years before Columbus leaves as its only survivor a year-old boy.
Years later, the Norsemen return to exterminate all Indians and only he can stop them. Dismemberments ensue. But they do; this film is doing a rousing business worldwide.
Nearly percent violence. The visual aspect of the film, outside of the terror, is striking: weird, marvelous locations with strange buildings, beautifully photographed landscapes in an odd palette. Rated R in the US for strong brutal violence throughout. I found it of passing interest, but does an amnesiac also forget his sexual orientation?
That said, Ananda Everingham as the amnesiac gives a fascinating and subtle performance.
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