Page 12 - Masala Lite Issue 157 January 2024
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12 TRENDING NOW
MARCH
• Taylor Swift’s The Eras Tour, whose
sales has broken records worldwide,
will be showing in Singapore’s National
Stadium on 2-4 March and 7-9 March,
the only stop in Southeast Asia
• The trial of former President Donald
Trump, on charges of election
interference, begins this month, while his
trial on charges of obstruction of justice
will commence in May
• British rock legend, Rod Stewart, will
perform in Thailand on 6 March, at
IMPACT Arena, for his Live in Concert
One Last Time tour
APRIL
• The Indian General Elections will be held
during this month and next, to elect 543
Masala’s official list of when to members of the Lok Sabha, the lower
house of India’s bicameral Parliament.
save the date this year. The results will determine whether or
not Prime Minister Narendra Modi will
secure another term in office
BY MAHMOOD HOSSAIN AND AIDEN JEWELLE GONZALES
MAY
• China’s Chang’e-6 mission will attempt
JANUARY to collect up to 2 kilograms of samples
from the ‘dark’ side of the moon
• A win for love and human rights, • Thailand’s proposed USD 14 billion
Thailand is set to be the third country digital cash handout programme, which
in Asia, and the first in Southeast Asia, promises THB 10,000 each to about 50
to approve same-sex marriage. Having million Thai citizens, is set to begin its
received Cabinet approval, the bill is roll out this month
pending two more readings in Parliament
(the first reading passed to overwhelming JUNE
approval), as well as royal assent
• Beloved Indian restaurant Punjab Grill • The Men’s T20 World Cup will be jointly
will officially open their doors to their hosted by the US and the West Indies,
rooftop bar, Holly Bolly, which will be and is scheduled from 4 June to 30 June
serving craft beers and more
• The UEFA Euro 2024 football
• InterContinental Bangkok tournament, scheduled to take place
Sukhumvit, an IHG Hotel is officially from 14 June to 14 July, will be hosted
open for business, touting itself as a by Germany
luxury lifestyle destination for discerning
travellers JULY
• Thailand’s first Moxy hotel will open in Ratchaprasong, the largest in the Asia
Pacific region. It will bring its vision of affordable and youthful fun and will be on • The 2024 Summer Olympics will be
the upper floors of The Market shopping centre held mostly in France from 26 July to 11
• Merry Christmas (2024), starring Katrina Kaif and Vijay Sethupati will be releasing August, with Paris set to be the main host
in theatres on 12 January city, although 16 other French cities and
one subsite in Tahiti will also host events
• PM Modi will inaugurate the Ayodhya Ram Mandir on 22 January, and the ‘who’s
who’ of India are all expected to attend • The Hyatt Group is set to open its
second Andaz hotel in Thailand, at One
• Fighter (2024), starring Hrithik Roshan and Deepika Padukone, will also be
releasing in theatres on 25 January Bangkok, one of Thailand’s biggest
and most comprehensive real estate
• The AWC’s partnership with Michelin-starred chefs begins, with the aim to development projects, which is aiming
enhance the new benchmark for fine dining experience at ‘EA’, one of the world’s to open its doors in early 2024
largest F&B rooftop destinations
• The Thai government has pledged to hold a referendum, tentatively within Q1 AUGUST
2024, to determine whether the Thai people want a new version of the constitution
• Singham Again (2024), starring the likes
FEBRUARY
of Ajay Devgn, Deepika Padukone,
Tiger Shroff, Kareena Kapoor Khan,
• Amari Bangkok will be opening NILA, Akshay Kumar, and Ranveer Singh, is
a restaurant specialising in coastal Indian expected to be released in theatres on
cuisine. Chef Bharath, formerly of Punjab 15 August
Grill, will be bringing his expertise and vast
• KIS International School will unveil
experience to the team
its new dedicated boarding village for
• British rock band Coldplay will be students Grade 4 and up. This will be
playing in Rajamangala National Stadium Bangkok’s only full IB day and boarding
from 3-4 February, under “A Sky Full of school, and will feature a world-class
Stars” 60-acre campus.
• World-renowned singer-songwriter • President Joko Widodo of Indonesia is
Ed Sheeran, known for romantic pop planning to inaugurate a new capital city,
hits such as “Perfect”, will be holding Nusantara, on Borneo. A USD 30 billion
The Mathematics Tour at Rajamangala project, this unveiling will coincide with
National Stadium on 10 February Indonesia’s independence day, and is a
result of the overcrowding in Jakarta,
which is also slowly sinking because of
rising sea levels
