Establishments like BLND, Trance and BU.MI offer family-friendly spaces with curated menus that blend local and global cuisines, while doubling as safer environments for women and signalling a shift in the city’s drinking culture
Across much of the world, young people are turning away from military service. In Thailand, they are queuing up. Voluntary enlistment in the Southeast Asian nation has climbed steadily over the past five years – so much so that in some districts, annual conscription quotas, which happen in April, are being filled from ranks of willing men alone. It is somewhat paradoxical, considering the recent, lethal border clashes with Cambodia have made clear that military service is no longer a distant...