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The ventriloquist
B Magazine, Published on 30/09/2018
» There's an uncanny numerology associated with Theeradej "Kane" Wongpuapan. One of Thailand's most lovable actors, who's still attracting deafening screams at every public appearance, seems to have a thing for number six.
Exhibition chronicles Tham Luang rescue
News, Patpon Sabpaitoon, Published on 27/08/2018
» Supakorn Palawong, a 15-year-old student from Triam Udom Suksa school, said he was very impressed with an informative an exhibition held to shed light on how 12 teenage footballers and their coach from Moo Paa (Wild Boars) Academy football team became trapped inside a flooded cave and their subsequent rescue.
The plight of the stateless
Life, Published on 14/08/2018
» Thanom's ancestors lived in what was Siamese territory, near Bang Saphan district in Prachuap Khiri Khan, over a century ago. Back then Burma, to the west, was a British colony and people who lived along the border crossed back and forth without much difficulty. When state boundaries were redrawn during the reign of King Rama V, his family was stuck on the other side. As a young man Thanom was a cattle herder, and he travelled around Karen villages to buy cattle and buffaloes and crossed over to sell them on the Thai side. When he started this job, a cow was just 20 baht and a buffalo was 50 baht.
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.