The latest version of the popular JOOX Music app has a Live feature added so you can enjoy live-streamed concerts.

JOOX is a free music-streaming application for both Android and iOS devices. It provides access to millions of tracks for both listening and downloading.

The app also has the JOOX Radio features, with which you can tune in to more than 50 online radio stations.

You can create your playlists of favourite songs to share for others to enjoy. There are also playlists recommended by JOOX staff members.

On the free version of JOOX, several nice features are disabled. You need to buy a VIP account to get all of the features, such as access to a huge archive of albums and high-quality streaming and the ability to download tracks for offline listening.

JOOX Version 3.7.0 has several new features. The best is Live Section, offering live streaming from concerts. And there’s an option for changing the resolution of the live broadcasts.

While I was testing it over the weekend, JOOX was streaming a Jameson on the Rock concert. I could adjust the video resolution among 360p, 480p and 720p. I hooked up to a Huawei Mate 8 phone and selected 720p. The streaming was smooth and the sound quality good.

You can play the video in fullscreen mode while the phone is horizontal or keep a chat box underneath to see what folks are saying. While I was watching the show, the band racked up more than 27,000 likes from JOOX users alone.

The updated version has a nice black theme and also makes it easier to add songs, create playlists and reorder songs in the playlist to your liking.

JOOX – the name derives from “juke box” – is developed and operated by Tencent Holdings and currently has more than five million songs from 200 labels.

JOOX is free, but VIP access costs Bt69 per week, Bt129 per month and Bt1,099 per a year.

KEY FACTS

– What’s needed: Android or iOS device

– Prices: Bt69 per week, Bt129 per month, Bt349 per three months, Bt639 per six months and Bt1,099 per 12 months.

– Music quality: Hifi sound sytem, Flac, bitrate at 900 to 1411kbps.

Apple Music is a single, intuitive app and service that combines several ways to enjoy music – all in one place. You can access the app via several tools, including your iPhone, iPod, iPad as well as an Android smartphone or a PC or a Mac computer.

More than 20 million paying subscribers are already enjoying handpicked playlists based on the music they love as well as discovering new artists every day. And Thai artists and students are also using the app to release their musical masterpieces.

I tried the Apple Music app on a brand new 9.7-inch iPad and a Huawei Mate 8 smartphone and was delighted to be able to listen to sounds that are hard to find elsewhere. Best of all, the music can be enjoyed without having to be downloaded or bought.

When I tried it on the Mate 8, the Apple Music app tried to get to know my taste of music by having me tap on music genres I like and then my favourite bands, then compiled a special playlist just for me.

The app has recently been recently redesigned for easier exploration, It’s divided into four main sections – Library, For You, Browse and Radio.

The Library provides access to all music in your own Apple Music library, old and new, as well as the songs and albums you have collected, and the playlists you have created. Every song, album, and playlist you’ve ever added to your iTunes library is in your Apple Music library – whether it was purchased from the iTunes Store, imported from a CD, or downloaded from a music blog.

And when you enter the Library section, you can browse via subsections of Playlists, Artists, Albums and Songs. There is also a subsection called Recently Added, where you will find the music you have purchased via iTunes store.

You can download music for listening offline too by going to the Download music subsection in Library.

The For You section is where you will find albums and playlists curated by Apple Music’s team of experts to match your musical tastes. These special playlists are updated daily. Here, you will also see what you have been playing recently as well as posts from your favourite artists.

For example, I told Apple Music app that my preferred genres are rock, blues and alternative and named AC/DC, Stevie Ray Vaughan, and Eric Clapton as my favourite artists. The app recommended several playlists, including Classical Rocks, Dark Sky (rock tracks for relaxation), Best of ‘70s Hard Rock, Vol 2, and Best of British Blues.

Under the New Releases subsection, I found Blondie’s “Pollinator” album and “50 Years Ago” by Genesis.

When I tried the app later, it suggested several albums including “Led Zeppelin (Remastered)”, “The Best of Stevie Ray Vaughan”, and “Back in Black” of AC/DC.

But my vote goes to the Browse section as the most entertaining. It’s your ticket to the best of the Apple Music service. Its intuitive layout lets you quickly choose new releases, chart-toppers or playlists that match your mood and activity.

Here you can browse music by subsections of New Music, Playlists, Music Videos, Top Charts and Genres.

Genres indulged me in a nostalgic trip back to the past with old songs rarely heard on the radio. The genres include classical, dance/electronic, hip-hop/rap, J-Pop, K-Pop, R&B, and Thai music.

The latter category include “Black” by Hugo and “The Lion” by Big Ass as well as other playlists, including The A-List: Thai Music and Thai Pop Replay.

When I chose Rock genres, I found several interesting playlists, including The A-List Hard Rock, the A-List Metal, Classic Rock Workout, Essential Classic Rock, and Best of Classic Prog Rock.

The A-Lists have been compiled by Apple Music editors. They include the best new music in each genre and are updated frequently.

And when I chose the Best of Classic Prog Rock, the tracks I found included “Roundabout” by Yes, “Aqualung” by Jethro Tull, “Lucky Man” by Emerson, Lake and Palmer and “Time (Edit)” by Pink Floyd.

The Radio section lets you tune in to Beats 1, which is an innovative radio station hosted by the world’s best artists and DJs. Other radio stations include Charting Now, Classical, Chill, Love Song, K-Pop, and Pop Workout. You can also browse radio station by music genres.

Apart from browsing the features by sections, you can also quickly search by typing in your favourite artists’ names.

During the test, I enjoyed using the search feature to search for favourite artists, including Roger Waters, Peter Gabriel and Pink Floyd was delighted to find huge collections of their music. For example, there are several albums by Roger Waters, including his latest “Is This the Life We Really Want”.

The app offers good music quality too. I listened to the songs, using Sony’s MDR1ABT high-resolution headphones and I really enjoyed them.

You can also have Apple Music find the lyrics to a song. Just swipe up while a track plays and you’ll see them. Feel free to sing — or shout, rap, belt, croon, or whisper — along.

Moreover, if you use a Mac OS or iOS device to use Apple Music service, you can have Siri as your personal DJ. Siri can take your music request with voice commands. The commands include “What’s the top song right now?”, “Play the live version of this song”, “When was this released?” and “Play something that’s just for me.”

Key facts:

– What you need: iPhone, iPad, iPod touch, Mac, Apple TV, Android device or PC with Internet connection

– Trial period: 3 months free

– Prices: Bt69 per month for students, Bt129 per month for individual, Bt199 for family membership

A recent trip to China’s Henan province where I was able to get up close and cosy with Lord Bao, the generals of the Yang family and the Shaolin Temple, ends with a visit to Yuntai Mountain Global Geopark in Jiaozuo. Named a geopark by Unesco in 2004, it is classified as a national 5A grade tourist attraction by the China National Tourism Administration.

Everything about Yuntai is big, even the entrance. We navigate our way through the electronic admission ticket system and board one of the sightseeing buses laid on for visitors.

Covered with verdant virgin forest, the geopark is famous for its mountain and water scenery. It’s divided into five unique scenic areas, all of them tourist attractions, namely the hanging springs and waterfalls of the Yuntaishan area, the gorges and mountain streams of the Qinglongxia area, the towering rock walls of the Fenglinxia area, the crystal clear waters of the Qingtianhe River, and the Dragon Crest Ridge of the Shennongshan Mountain.

A year-round destination, the scenery varies with the seasons. In spring, the mountain is decorated by wild flowers and green grass. In summer, the virgin forests and beautiful waterfalls make it an excellent resort. In autumn, leaves turn fiery red and the mountain looks like a colourful coat. In winter, snow turns the mountain into a white world of icy waterfalls, ice pillars and evergreen plants covered with snow.

“If you want to see all the hotspots, you need to stay for 3 or 4 days. You will be well catered for by the hotels and restaurants. As we have limited time, we will go the Red Stone Gorge, which features a waterfall and a lake. First we have to go down to the gorge and cross a stone bridge then walk along the lake until we arrive at the waterfall,” says our Thai-speaking Chinese guide.

The sightseeing bus drops us and other tourists at Hongshi Valley and we walk up to an inscribed stone before passing through the second entrance where we stop, stunned by the panorama unfolding in front of us. We have a full day to enjoy this first stop, which is the centrepiece of the geopark. The literature tells us that Red Stone is a linear gorge formed by red quartz sandstone deposited under the geology structure about 1.4 billion years ago. The strong uplift of a neotectonic movement and deep incisions made by water erosion gave rise to a sandstone cliff more than 50 metres high and a gorge that’s more than 1,500 metres long, 100 metres deep but only tens of metres wide.

We walk slowly down on the road before following a narrow ledge on the edge of the mountains. Crickets chirp loudly at the interruption of their morning nap and we stop occasionally to read the signs informing us about various interesting spots.

The first of these dwells on the red quartz sandstone that forms Red Stone Gorge. The redness, it reads, is the result of the oxidation of the element iron that occurs inside the rocks. An uneven distribution of the element iron among the rocks has led to a diversity in shades and the formation of beautiful patterns.

Another sign points us to the Happy Channel, which was built 17 years ago to solve the drinking and irrigation problems on Yuntai Mountain and its surrounding area. The Red Danxia cliff is one of the most imposing landscapes on Yuntai Mountain, formed some 1.2 billion years ago in purplish red quartz sandstone. Due to the faulting and weathering during the formation of Taihang Mountain, the rocks surfaced into the gorge and cliff, rather as if nature had skilfully carved a sunroof on Yuntai Mountain.

A small pathway on the edge of the mountains has been carefully constructed to allow visitors to walk through the inside and the outside of the mountain while bridges allows them to pass from one mountain to another. There’s water everywhere and it’s clear and green.

“China has four Great Beauties,” says the guide. “Xi Shi was said to be so entrancingly beautiful that fish would forget how to swim and sink below the surface upon seeing her reflection in the water. Wang Zhaojun was said to be so beautiful that her appearance would entice birds in flight to fall from the sky. Diaochan was said to be so luminously lovely that the moon itself would shy away in embarrassment when compared to her face. Unlike the other Beauties, there is no evidence she actually existed historically. Yang Guifei was said to have a face that made all peony flowers wither.”

As has inevitably been the case during our tip, the tourist attraction is swimming with Chinese tourists. Most of them don’t even pay lip service to the courtesies of sightseeing so I am both surprised and delighted when an old Chinese woman, a local tourist taking her friends’ picture along a narrow path, smiles and thanks me for stopping to let her take the picture in peace. We carry on walking and soon reach Shoulong Waterfall, another awe-inspiring sight with stones and towering cliffs facing each other as torrents scour a gully down the cliffs.

It’s time for us to catch the sightseeing bus again for our return journey. It’s been a wonderful experience and I’m only sorry we didn’t have time to go to Cornel Peak, the highest peak of Yuntai Mountain and take a stroll along its much-touted glass walkway suspended more than 1,000 metres above the ground.

The writer’s trip was sponsored by Thai Smile Airways.

IF YOU GO

Thai Smile Airways flies from Suvarnabhumi Airport in Bangkok to Zhengzhou, the capital of Henan province, on Wednesdays, Fridays and Sundays. Flight WE680 departs Suvaanabhumi at 2.20pm and arrives in Zhengzhou at 7.30pm. The return flight WE681 leaves Zhengzhou at 8.30am and lands at Suvarnabhumi at 11.40am.

Book your flight at http://www.ThaiSmileAir.com

Launched in 1960, it quickly drew a loyal following, giving the brand prolonged period of rising demand and growing consumer interest.

For the future, the brand takes an inspiration from its pioneering days to create a new series that combines the original Grand Seiko design with a modern reinterpretation. Famous for its exquisite design, the dial of the very first Grand Seiko watch carried the name Grand Seiko at the twelve o’clock position as a symbol of its identity.

The first Grand Seiko models were produced in a 80 micron gold-filled case but some were also made in platinum. The new recreations are therefore offered in both these metals and also in stainless steel. The case is virtually identical to the original, but its diameter has been increased to 38mm to match with contemporary tastes.

The dual-curved sapphire crystal is also loyal to the original shape and gives the recreation the same pleasingly gentle profile. The platinum version uses platinum 999 and has 18k gold hour markers, just as on the original.

The base of the gold dial allows the Grand Seiko logo to be particularly sharp in its outline and detail. The gold version uses 18k gold for the entire case and all the hour markers, while the stainless steel version also has a gold accent in the form of the Grand Seiko lion emblem embedded in the case back.

All three versions incorporate the 9S64 manual winding calibre, but the platinum version has been adjusted to an even higher level of precision, 1 to +5 seconds per day. All of them are offered as limited editions, each with a special “Inspection Certificate”.

Find out more at (02) 163 0555 or visit http://www.TrocaderoTime.com/tha/timepieces/66/GRANDSEIKO.

A THEATRE troupe who lasts more than 10 years in this country is rare and when it’s a troupe of mime artists, not a widely popular genre of performing arts here, it’s worth even more of our attention.

Performing together since 2000 and under this name since 2005, Babymime is a trio of mime artists – Ratchai “Nging” Rujiwipatna, Nuttapol “Ta” Kummata, and Thong-glur “Glur” Thongta – who can, deservingly, call themselves professional. With frequent gigs on stage and screen both here and overseas, they, unlike many of their theatre colleagues here, can afford not to have a day job.

Last year, Glur needed a major brain operation and Babymime fans and fellow theatre artists organised a fund-raising performance to support him. That jeopardised the future of the troupe, which performed in 10 countries in 2016 following their first European trip to Edinburgh Fringe in 2015.

The good news is that last weekend they returned to the stage at the Playhouse of K-Bank Siam Pic-Ganesha Center of Performing Arts, and Glur said, to the delight of his fans, “I’m 80 per cent normal despite a few extra kilogrammes.”

Instead of the usual annual performance titled “Babymime Show”, followed by the number of its “Volume”, this year it’s the “Babymime Superhit Show”, comprising three of favourite and critically acclaimed works in their repertoire. Each of them is preceded by Glur’s “Title Man” for which he came up with different ways to introduce the title of the three main acts.

In “Fan”, which premiered in Indonesia last year, Ta portrayed our summer’s most significant electrical appliance and Nging’s actions, hilariously and cheekily, reminded us of what we’ve done with it. The two were also back in “Chicken Run”, which premiered nine years ago, in which a chicken puppet, manipulated by Nging, was trying every possible way to avoid chicken rice vendor Ta’s attempt to butcher it.

The highlight of this 90-minute show was “Star Wars”, from “Babymime Show Volume 5” in 2012 on which they collaborated with B-Floor’s Teerawat “Ka-ge” Mulvilai. I was as entertained and moved by this act as I was five years ago. Keenly written, directed and performed, it tells the story of a moody father (Glur), a submissive mother (Nging) and an autistic child (Ta) and turns it ingeniously into a Star Wars spoof.

Along with a Taiwanese official from their culture ministry and a Singapore-based American director, I went to a Sunday afternoon performance and families with young kids formed the majority of audience. As always, the troupe frequently walked off stage and into the stand of audience to interact with us, and kids were invited onstage to perform with them as well.

It was a timely reminder that Babymime’s works can be enjoyed by audiences of all ages, especially in this era of information overload on social media, when we all need this silent act of comedy to exercise our imagination.

After the curtain call, the trio announced their upcoming 12-province national tour with this “best of” show, thanks in part to a major sponsor.

I’m sure that their experience in many provinces will inspire them to create new works to delight and to inspire us soon.

On their next overseas trips, they will also see that the art of performing “mime” has rapidly developed to integrate with other genres of performing arts – for example, nouveau cirque and object theatre – and no doubt they will consider developing their future works accordingly as well.

The experience last weekend also reminded me of a recent conversation I had with a Thai cultural attache I met at a theatre festival overseas. While many contemporary Thai dance and theatre troupes, Babymime included, are now performing overseas, this information is not known by either our culture or foreign affairs ministries who, unlike their colleagues in other countries, only look to promote traditional Thai performing arts to overseas audiences. Of course, the art of pantomime is not originally Thai, but Babymime, like many of contemporary Thai performing artists, has adapted it to fit contemporary Thai stories and audiences.

So how can Babymime’s performances not be regarded as Thai?

Five More Shows Here

– “Babymime Superhot Show” continues at the Playhouse, |K-Bank Siam Pic-Ganesha Center of Performing Arts, 6th floor or Siam Square One |(BTS: Siam Square), today at 8pm, and tomorrow and Sunday at 1.30pm and 7.30pm. Tickets cost from Bt400 to Bt800 at ThaiTicketMajor.

– For more details, search “Babymime Show” on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and YouTube.

They include the launch of a campaign to reduce energy consumption by cycling, free health check-ups from a leading hospital, workshops teaching how to make chic items out of natural materials and an eco market.

“This green market is designed to raise awareness of eco-friendliness and brings together a range of eco-friendly products from 18 shops,” says Chanisa Kaewruen of Siam Piwat, the operator of Siam Discovery.

Among the items are sale will be fashion by Basic Teeory, Run Ga Run & Homlom and Yen Design; skincare and beauty products from Cosmos & Harmony and Softcream, food by Urban Tree, Baimiang, and Ampolfood as well as stationery and furniture from PDM, Soontaree and Labrador.

The Sakonhead collective – a gathering of Sakon Nakhon natives – will conduct indigo dyeing workshop on June 5. A workshop on book making from banana leaf sheaths will be held on June 6 while on June 7 members of Kasetsart University’s Faculty of Architecture will demonstrate how to make a tote out of a dialysis solution bag.

 Inspired by Indonesian batik, the collections for men and women offer new colour choices to reflect the summer season, including soft pink, blue and an off-white that is rare in traditional batik in comfortable materials suitable for the tropical climate. For women, the key items are blouses with three-quarter length sleeves and short sleeves.

Uniqlo has modernised the Indoensia parang pattern, changing the scale of the wave and updating the colour to suit modern, subtle tastes. Others use floral and star motifs like the sulur daun (vine leaves) motif and a variation on the Indonesian sinar bintang (starlight) motif.

The colouring of the floral patterns is simplified to appeal to modern tastes while retaining the traditional flowing strokes. The new collection also includes a number of simpler, aesthetically-pleasing decorative geometric patterns. Through this collection, the brand aims to increase awareness of Indonesia’s traditional cultural treasure among younger generations and around the world.

The Batik Motif collection will be available from tomorrow (June 2) onwards exclusively at Uniqlo Central World and online at http://www.Uniqlo.com/th.

Nicolas de Crecy shows Mexico as a baroque land of poetry. And pixel-art specialist Eboy renders Tokyo as it’s never been seen before. Their art is being exhibited in those countries. The Louis Vuitton Travel Book collection is an invitation to real and virtual voyages, enriched by intellectual stimulation and poignant moments. The illustrations tell the stories of the cities and countries, the architecture and the daily lives of their people.

Wear it with care

Jeweller Cartier has unveiled the “Juste un Clou Gold Torque”, set close to the neck for maximum impact. A bold and powerful statement, it updates the bracelet in the shape of a large construction nail, created by Aldo Cipullo in the 1970s. The nail now re-purposed into a necklace carries palpable energy and chic appeal. It comes in a choice of yellow gold, pink gold, white gold or paved with diamonds, and there’s a bracelet too.

Nothing says sweet like a Sella

Naomi Campbell, Jourdan Dunn, Zhang Ziyi and Krystal Jung are among the celebrity fans of the ribbed and stitched Sella Bag. Rooted in a long history of saddle craft, must-have Sella shoes and handbags from Tod’s are the products of a meticulous process entailing great skill and attention to detail.

Have a look at Looksi

Central Group Online has been revamped and renamed Looksi, a prime destination for fashion and lifestyle products. Looksi.com is now pioneering a phenomenal dimension in both street wear and luxury products. The site originated as Zalora.co.th in 2012 before being taken into the Central Group’s fold last year. The new site offers a fresh experience for young people of the digital age as they hunt for treasures online.

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Williams’ tour includes Wat Pho, the Siam Hotel, the Mandarin Oriental Hotel, a boat trip to Ayutthaya, a food tour with Nahm’s chef Prin Polsuk, drinks at Banyan Tree’s famous Moon Bar and a stop at the city’s latest architectural icon MahaNakhon.

The journey starts at sunrise with a boat ride on the Chao Phraya river, followed by an exclusive tour of Wat Pho, guided by the monk who showed President Barack Obama around in 2012. Williams then moves to the luxurious Siam Hotel for a spot of muay thai and a chat with the owner, Thai musician and actor Krissada Sukosol Clapp.

In the afternoon, Williams heads to the historic Mandarin Oriental Hotel for high tea with famed author Lawrence Osborne to learn why this city is one of his literary dreams. He then boards one of the Anantara Riverside’s lavishly refurbished rice barges for a cruise up the Chao Phraya river to Thailand’s former capital, Ayutthaya, a Unesco World Heritage Site.

As evening approaches, Williams returns to Bangkok just in time for dusk at the famous Moon Bar at the Banyan Tree Bangkok, which also happens to be the perfect place to catch a glimpse of Bangkok’s newest building and now Thailand’s tallest, MahaNakhon. He also meets with the owner, Sorapoj Techakraisri.

“Standing on the top of Thailand’s highest building, cracking open a bottle of champagne with the owner and watching the sun set over the city was the highlight of my trip,” Williams says.

“It was one of those ‘pinch-me’ moments and a real privilege. It is an incredible building, a truly extraordinary landmark.”

Finally, Williams heads to Nahm, one of the top restaurants in Bangkok, to learn what makes the Thai palate tick with chef Prin Polsuk. “We enjoyed an incredible degustation at Nahm, and then Prin took us on a tour of his favourite street food where we ate noodles for just Bt35,” Williams enthuses.

“Both experiences were equally amazing but in a different way. That’s what I love about Bangkok. It’s a fusion of incredible luxury and high-end experiences with a really exciting, dynamic, interesting culture – the melting pot of high-end and street culture.

“There’s always something going on in Bangkok. It’s one of the few cities in the world where you can wake up in the morning and you won’t know what you’ll be doing that night. You look back on the day and you say ‘wow, that was amazing!’” he concludes.

The 30-minute show airs on June 7 at 4.30pm with various repeats.

She became the mother of a healthy baby boy in January at a private clinic in Kiev using a process called pronuclear transfer that inserts the couple’s genes into a donor’s egg.

The procedure had been previously used to treat serious genetic diseases.

But doctor Valeriy Zukin become the first to use it to help two separate infertile couples have children in this way.

“There are patients whom we cannot help to have their own genetically-related baby unless we use this method,” the 60-year-old told AFP at his Nadiya clinic.

Some two million women across the globe use in vitro fertilisation (IVF) to get pregnant every year.

But Zukin’s treatment targets a tiny percentage of women whose embryos suffer from a disorder called embryo arrest that can either stunt development or kill them.

The difference in the method Zukin uses is that a woman’s egg is first fertilised with her partner’s sperm.

Then its nucleus is transferred to a donor’s egg that has been stripped of its own nucleus.

The egg is thus almost entirely made up of genetic material from the couple — plus a tiny amount (about 0.15 percent) from the female donor’s DNA.

Need for caution

Not everyone however shares Zukin’s enthusiasm.

Ukraine’s conservative clerics argue that the technique breaches ethical norms.

“A child can only have two parents and the presence of a third person — and especially the DNA of a third person — is morally unacceptable,” Father Feodosiy of the dominant Ukrainian Orthodox Church told AFP.

“It violates the sanctity of the marriage between woman and man.”

Other religions have also weighed in on the issue with the Roman Catholic Church opposing the move because it would involve the destruction of human embryos as part of the process. The Church of England has said ethical concerns have not been sufficiently addressed.

Even some scientists have reservations.

They warn against jumping to early conclusions about how successful the method would be if it were to be applied to the general population.

“We cannot talk about its wide use yet,” Larysa Tumanova, a professor at Kiev’s Institute of Pediatrics, Obstetrics and Gynaecology, told AFP.

“First, we have to monitor the newborns’ health until they turn at least three,” she said.

Other experts point out that the “three-parent” technique — a different form of which has also produced a baby in Mexico — was initially being developed for those at very high risk of passing on serious genetic diseases.

Line of hopeful mums

Zukin strongly defends the work at his clinic.

“We explain the essence of the method to each patient,” he says. “We report possible risks.”

And there is currently a line of hopeful mothers ready to pay the 12,000 euros ($13,100) it takes to undergo the pronuclear transfer procedure.

“We have patients from Poland, the Netherlands, Denmark, France, Israel, Portugal and Brazil,” he says.

Zukin thinks between 10,000 and 20,000 women a year could potentially be candidates for using the method to conceive — a figure large enough to seek out a foreign partnership that could study how best to use this technique.

His health centre is now working with China’s Shanghai University to determine the genetic causes of abnormalities in embryo development at an early stage.

“I hope that through joint efforts, we will be able to find in a more targeted way those whom this method will help,” Zukin says.