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From the valleys to Bangkok
Life, Kaona Pongpipat, Published on 25/03/2016
» Ever since the beginning of the year, Bangkok has not been short of world-class musical icons flying in to grace Thai fans, from Madonna to Santana to most recently David Foster. So it's not unusual that the legendary Welsh singer Tom Jones is next to dazzle Thai audiences.
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Finding fortune
Life, Kaona Pongpipat, Published on 11/08/2014
» Philippus Albertus Van Wyk was born into a very wealthy farming family in South Africa's Pretoria, but money didn't give his life meaning. The 39-year-old is now a volunteer teacher at Baan Koh Payam School, a local Prathom school on Koh Payam, a two-hour boat ride off Ranong province, and says he has finally found his purpose.
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Myth, love and blind earthworms
Life, Kaona Pongpipat, Published on 09/11/2015
» Veeraporn Nitiprapha's debut novel, which has just won this year's SEA Write Award, is ultimately a trap. Read it, and if you are totally into the world this author has created, then you are, as the book's title suggests, a Blind Earthworm In A Labyrinth (Saiduan Tabod Nai Khaowongkot).
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The fine art of intimidation
Life, Kaona Pongpipat, Published on 27/01/2015
» Actress Ornanong Thaisriwong slowly opened the louvre windows and shouted out the following questions and statements, in different voices, to an empty balcony on the fourth floor of Thonglor Art Space.
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From the past, into the future
Life, Kaona Pongpipat, Published on 10/02/2015
» There are three versions of Korakrit Arunanondchai, one of Thailand's hottest mavericks whose works have been shown internationally in recent years: first, Korakrit in person, who isn't the most comprehensible of talkers; second, the Korakrit he professes himself to be, which is a jeans-clad, fiery-haired, spontaneous painter and gangster/rapper performance artist.
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Noraset picks brains and minds
Life, Kaona Pongpipat, Published on 29/10/2014
» Noraset Vaisayakul went to the hospital earlier this year and paid 10,000 baht for an MRI scan of his brain. But there was nothing wrong with him. He just wanted the scan sheet and turned that into the centrepiece painting of his current exhibition "Fault Lines" at H Project Space.
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The foetus between us
Muse, Kaona Pongpipat, Published on 09/08/2014
» Dancer Kittiphon Udomrattanakulchai has literally found her muse within herself. A few months into her pregnancy, she became amazed and inspired by how her body had developed to protect the baby in her womb. That sense of wonder has turned into A Fetus’ Dream, an ongoing butoh performance at Crescent Moon Theatre.
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Diving in with Swim Deep
Life, Kaona Pongpipat, Published on 18/02/2014
» It was a full house at Mongkol RCA Studio earlier this month for English indie rock band Swim Deep. It was the first time in Bangkok for the four-piece outfit from West Midlands, which played quite a few festivals around the word, including Glastonbury last year, since the August release of its debut album Where The Heaven Are We .
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Coincidental commentary
Life, Kaona Pongpipat, Published on 09/01/2014
» Nophand Boonyai's new play, Utopian Malady, is not based on a true story _ although it is about a country's leader trying to get out of a controversial mess he (not she) has found himself in.
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Bourne in space
Life, Kaona Pongpipat, Published on 18/09/2013
» His head shaved and his body latticed with cheap-looking tattoos, a toughened-up Matt Damon has taken the lead role in writer/director Neill Blomkamp's latest thriller Elysium, which opens tomorrow. It's the year 2154, and only two classes of people exist. While the super rich have gone off to live in a luxurious space station called Elysium, Damon plays Max Da Costa, a former car thief and parolee who, along with other struggling and impoverished people, is left and stranded on a wrecked and overcrowded Earth.
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