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We all know Fitbit’s smartwatches track your daily physical activity, but they can now help you track your stress levels, too. Fitbit recently announced the rollout of Fitbit Sense’s Stress Management tracking to the Fitbit Versa 3, Versa 2, Luxe, Charge 4, and Inspire 2.

Sushiro is famous for being an affordable purveyor of conveyer belt sushi, aka kaiten sushi, with prices starting at ¥100 per plate (¥110 with tax to be more accurate). Found three decades ago, the famous sushi chain operates 600 branches in Japan and overseas. Sushiro made its Thailand debut on the seventh floor of centralwOrld.

A blogger a number of years ago cited an alleged Unesco statistic stating that Thais only read eight lines per year compared to the five books a year Singaporeans and Vietnamese read. I couldn't find the statistic anywhere but a former editor for Guru also wrote in one of her past editor's note that the National Statistic Office reported in 2005 that Thais read an average of just seven lines a...

I love browsing through Thai old-timey print ads from the yesteryears for the nostalgia and quirks from the past they bring. Mirinda was B1 per bottle and Ovaltine was purported as a drink of choice for ladies who wanted to have glowing skin.

The end of the office, the end of the university campus, the death of the city. The past months of pandemic doom and gloom have witnessed many dire predictions. A common theme has been that our new-found, battle-hardened ability to live and work remotely will render physical space obsolete. Yet, after countless lockdowns, quarantines and Zoom sessions, I would put forward an opposite proposition:...

One of the leading developers of Portland's Pearl District says the city's homeless situation is about to worsen if local leaders don't jump on board with his vision.

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge

Twitch users will be able to make threaded replies in Twitch chat starting today, the popular streaming platform announced. Threaded replies could make it a lot easier to have side conversations within Twitch chats, which are sometimes chaotic waterfalls of text with no easy way to tell who might be talking to another. Twitch is calling the new feature Chat Replies.

Last week, The Root reported that 17-year-old Anthony J. Thompson Jr. was shot and killed by police officers in the restroom of Austin-East Magnet High School in Knoxville, Tenn., after police responded to a call about a “possibly armed” student.

Wall Street’s new watchdog Gary Gensler is coming to the job with an ambitious agenda. But the market may already be dictating some of the agenda for him.

I’m not a fan of so-called hate crime legislation, which generally tends to give law enforcement more resources and authority to counter a problem that not only are the police incapable of fixing, but one that they often exacerbate. As the professor Tamara Nopper put it in an interview on responses to an uptick in…

PARIS: Renault SA's sales fell for a fifth straight quarter as the French carmaker struggled to shrug off the fallout from the pandemic without a major presence in booming Chinese markets and a global shortage of electronic chips hit production.

From its first professional diver's watch, Omega has extended the Seamaster family to include Aqua Terra, Diver 300M, Planet Ocean and Heritage Models.

"Citizen Of Nowhere X Heartist" is a limited edition, hand-woven hilltribe textile collection, created by autistic artists in Thailand.

This new wave of Covid-19 transmissions that began a few weeks ago struck just when we thought our world had gone back to normal.

While online retail is booming in Thailand, BJ Revive Cells led by CEO Ramida Russell Maneesatiean and specialist Manapat Suriyawongthong recently launched its new product "BJ Q10 Plus Citrus Bioflavonoids" to offer a new option for health-conscious shoppers on digital platforms.

Nomadland for Best Picture

Re: "Work at home, urges govt," (BP, April 19).

Fractious geopolitics doesn't always move world markets -- but the summer of 2021 may give us some glimpse about exactly where and how it does.

Tomorrow, leaders of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Asean) will gather in Jakarta for a summit to discuss the crisis in Myanmar while the world watches on anxiously.

Asean's highly anticipated "special" summit tomorrow in Jakarta on Myanmar's crisis can be declared moot on arrival. What goes into it is likely more telling that what will come out of it. Nearly three months and more than 730 civilian deaths after Myanmar's military coup on Feb 1, Asean is still unable to address its rogue member state's atrocities against its own people. The summit attendance...

Russian President Vladimir Putin has personally vowed to support Thailand's Covid-19 battle and will therefore be selling it his country's Sputnik V vaccine, Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha announced on Thursday.

Now you can track your keys and luxury bags in style.

The Foxes striker has been in impressive form of late amid speculation that he is catching the attention of their Premier League rivals

New video by supzero: Moritz Mauch exploring South Sumatra, Indonesia in search of the best wave to stand up paddle surf #shorts

The United States has a long-running love affair with natural gas, with fossil fuels acting as the lynchpin in the country's power generation mix. At the same time, nearly half of American homes use the fuel for heating. With the transition from fossil fuels to renewables in full swing in many states, natural gas serves as the bridge that will make the switch smoother and less jarring. Top American civil rights activists are among those vehemently opposed to an abrupt switch from natural gas, putting... Читать дальше...