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Thailand in film
Guru, Pasavat Tanskul, Published on 27/07/2018
» It has been a few weeks since the rescue of the Wild Boar soccer team from Tham Luang cave. With the successful and miraculous feel-good news of the rescue, it was inevitable that plans to dramatise the entire ordeal will be made into a movie. Reportedly, six film production companies are in talks with the Thai government and have expressed interest in obtaining rights to make a dramatic movie version of the events.
Journalists under increasing attack in India
Asia focus, Narendra Kaushik, Published on 30/10/2017
» Deeksha Sharma was scared and baffled at the same time when she received a death threat on her WhatsApp messaging account on Sept 16.
The outspoken monk
Life, Kong Rithdee, Published on 24/05/2017
» At the start The Venerable W., we see the firebrand Myanmar monk Ashin Wirathu speaking to the camera, calmly and casually. He talks about the African catfish, a creature that "grows fast, breeds a lot and is violent". The punchline is not totally unpredictable: "Muslims are like that."
'Thin-skinned' politicians ban books, beef, TV
News, Published on 23/03/2015
» "Don't eat it, read it, see it, feel it", sings the Michael Jackson impersonator as she raps her way through a list of pleasures banned by India's conservative government before chorusing: "Just beep it!"
By lens, stage and paint, truth
Life, Published on 10/12/2014
» In 2009, Tanwarin Sukkhapisit made I'm Fine Sabai Dee Ka, a three-minute satirical film/performance art piece in which she locks herself in a cage placed in front of the Democracy Monument. Passers-by (both actors and unsuspecting pedestrians) take photographs and stop to ask her what happened. She smiles and repeats the same answer: "I'm fine in here." Tanwarin, who once served as the president of the Thai Film Director Association, is a prolific filmmaker who has made independent and mainstream films. In 2010, her low-budget production, Insects In The Backyard, made headlines when it became the first film to be banned under the 2006 Film Act (censors said the film depicted inappropriate images of student prostitutes and a penis).
Banned TV stations back on air, but toned down
Spectrum, Published on 14/09/2014
» Many of the satellite television stations that broadcast political content and were ordered closed when the military took power are set to return, but viewers expecting to see the same type of shows will be disappointed.
Pol Gen Adul: 'Men in black' are policemen
Online Reporters, Published on 02/01/2014
» The "men in black" seen on top of a Labour Ministry building during the violent clash between anti-government protesters and police at the Thai-Japanese sports complex in Din Daeng on Dec 26 were policemen, national police chief Adul Saengsingkaew said on Thursday.
Sek Loso challenges copyright
Jon Fernquest, Published on 10/10/2013
» Sek Loso on copyright: Perform my songs, you won't be arrested... slams GMM Grammy for B250,000 annual copyright fee, joins Mor Lam protesters.
Court to police: Excessive force unacceptable
Jon Fernquest, Published on 16/01/2013
» Highest administrative court sends clear message to police who broke up oil pipeline protest in Hat Yai in 2002 before Thaksin mobile cabinet meeting.