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Huffing and puffing puts us in a spin
News, Kong Rithdee, Published on 30/01/2016
» For your weekend reading, you have two gripping options: The draft of the new constitution, or the government’s proudly presented “Photobook Infographics: Government for the People”, a 104-page hodgepodge of self-congratulatory news clippings. Either way, we brace ourselves for whatever comes, for our fate is not really ours to contend.
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Truth, Prayuth and a few good 'Tob Jote' men
News, Kong Rithdee, Published on 23/03/2013
» Army chief Prayuth Chan-ocha is Jack Nicholson, lashing out against unpatriotic puppies who dare to ask hard questions.
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Poles Apart
Life, Kong Rithdee, Published on 16/05/2013
» The spirit of rebirth is almost palpable as you walk the streets and hear the stories of Warsaw. Wiped off the map in the 19th century, reduced to ashes by German planes and panzers in 1939 and consigned to suspended animation during the four decades of repressive Stalinist rule that followed, this metropolis _ and the country of which it is capital _ has endured a succession of traumatic misfortunes that it has somehow survived, integrity intact, to reassert its proud identity in the 21st century.
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Love is blind, but only when hate has a say
News, Kong Rithdee, Published on 21/07/2012
» Love, as any Romeo knows, is blind. Fondness is scary when it turns into folly, admiration when it turns into obsession, and when being a fan crosses the line into fanaticism. Just like romance, which is tender, and romanticism, which is cloying. Amour is all rosy and nice, but amour fou is dark and dangerous; the world's original recipe for poison.
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Davos, Tokyo and clueless Tinglish
News, Kong Rithdee, Published on 10/03/2012
» 'In general, every country has the language it deserves." So said Jorge Luis Borges, wordsmith, polyglot, a man fascinated by what letters and languages can do. Goethe, with his proto-Romantic genius, was much less kind when it comes to being monolingual: "Those who know nothing of foreign languages know nothing of their own."
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