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Life, Kong Rithdee, Published on 21/09/2018
» Some highlights and award hopefuls from the film festival that will likely occupy the spotlight in the coming months
Chaiyaphum owed more than lost data
News, Kong Rithdee, Published on 11/08/2018
» In the age of video clips, one video clip is absent. At a time when we're inundated by cat clips, dog clips, accident clips, slap clips, brawl clips, grope clips, chase clips, murder clips -- when we even have clips recorded from the depths of a dark cave where light hardly reaches -- it's amazing that one crucial clip, shot in broad daylight, is missing, lost or made to be lost forever, along with transparency and maybe justice.
A one-man 'loveable rogues' gallery
B Magazine, Kong Rithdee, Published on 06/05/2018
» Sunny Suwanmethanont raises his thick eyebrows and chuckles. He forks a piece of mango into his mouth while he considers something -- an existential query of sorts.
Conscripted to fight an invisible war
News, Kong Rithdee, Published on 08/04/2017
» Until April 12, the biggest annual lottery will keep Thai men on edge: the military draft.
Army take on Lahu killing chills to bone
News, Kong Rithdee, Published on 25/03/2017
» This is the quote of the week, a line that should be emblazoned on T-shirts with the boldest font and distributed to all conscripts. Defending the hotly contested extra-judicial killing of the Lahu activist, 3rd Region Army chief Vijak Sriribunsop said: "Firing one shot at him was reasonable. If it were me, I might have put the [machine gun] on automatic mode."
We need trust in the law, not cowboys
News, Kong Rithdee, Published on 11/02/2017
» In cowboy movies, there are two sets of justice. Legal justice -- slow, frustrating, futile, executed by the sheriff or the hangman -- and frontier justice, which is as swift as the trigger and as thirst-quenching as a mug of moonshine. It can be executed by anyone with bullets to spare.
Play by the rules, stop biting back
Oped, Kong Rithdee, Published on 28/06/2014
» If I were to rob the most heavily guarded bank in Switzerland, I wouldn’t pick Luis Suarez to be on my team. He has the courage, but he would spoil the plan, bite the tellers, thrash around on the floor and throw our operation into disarray. Sinking his teeth into an Italian defender, Suarez was slapped with a four-month ban, starting from the match between his Uruguay and Colombia. He’s forbidden even from entering the football stadium. It’s a provisional excommunication, a Fifa coup de grace.
All we want for Christmas is less South strife
News, Kong Rithdee, Published on 22/12/2012
» All we want for Christmas is often something we can't get. World peace? Poverty eradication? That would make Santa sweat like a North Pole pig. No more violence, no more discrimination, no more settlements in the West Bank, no more brutality against the Rohingya, no more extremism, no more torture, no more drone attacks, no more school shootings, no more global warming, no more deportation of migrant workers, no more censorship, no more floods, earthquakes, tsunamis - wish for those and we're going to sound like John "Imagine" Lennon with flowers in his hair, though I believe Lennon was often right in general and wrong in some particulars.