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Religious fervour serves no god well
News, Kong Rithdee, Published on 07/04/2018
» Aformer rock musician has embraced the role of online preacher and denounced, above other things, rock music. In fact, he objects to most kinds of music, deeming it against Islam. Weerachon "Toh" Sattaying, once the high-pitched frontman of the band Silly Fools (love the name), has over the past six years quit his former lifestyle and became a born-again Muslim. Bearded, skull-capped, fiery-eyed and charismatic, Weerachon runs a dry-aged beef business and hosts an online religious programme that has cultivated quite a following.
Keeping classic films alive
Life, Kong Rithdee, Published on 06/04/2018
» The colours in the Thai spy movie Operation Revenge remain as vibrant as when the film first came out 51 years ago. Likewise, the struggle for independence in the Indonesian film Barbed Wired Fence remains intact, as vivid and strong as the image of the college boys projected on the screen when it came out in 1982. These films were on the verge of disintegration when they were revived to their former glory, ready to return to where they belong.
United flies passenger's dog to Japan by mistake
Associated Press, Published on 15/03/2018
» KANSAS CITY, Missouri: United Airlines claims it's investigating what happened when it mistakenly flew a Kansas family's dog to Japan.
Familiar faces or rogues gallery?
Life, Kong Rithdee, Published on 28/02/2018
» The entire wall is covered with faces -- a zoo of faces, if you will, each of them caged by a square frame. Naturally, upon entering Artist+Run Gallery visitors engage in a guess-who game: these are familiar faces of politicians, celebrities, athletes, monks and coupmakers, and yet some of them aren't instantly identifiable. Is that the government spokesman? From which coup? Who's that pretty face? Is that reddish thing Thaksin Shinawatra? That's easy -- it's Aung San Suu Kyi.
Devil on the doorstep
Life, Kong Rithdee, Published on 22/02/2018
» You go into a Lav Diaz's movie as if you were going into a church, or a trench war, or an ultra-marathon: you prepare for the epic length, the brutal transcendentalism and the implacable burden of history that hit you like a blow.
Litter louts, not drinkers, the real park pests
News, Surasak Glahan, Published on 05/12/2017
» At national parks during the festive season every year, do you know what human behaviour I think is arguably far more disturbing than loud noises made by "drunken" visitors?
Abbot urges return to Buddhist basics
News, Nauvarat Suksamran, Published on 02/12/2017
» The "change money" scandal has shaken Buddhism to its core while sounding a wake-up call for Buddhists, as well as the clergy, to cast aside the excessive ceremonial facade and embrace a calmer side that is the kernel of the religion.
New York truck attack suspect charged with terrorism
Associated Press, Published on 02/11/2017
» NEW YORK CITY: Federal prosecutors brought terrorism charges Wednesday against the Uzbek immigrant accused in the truck rampage that left eight people dead, saying he was spurred to attack by the Islamic State group's online calls to action and picked Halloween because he figured streets would be extra crowded.
The dark world of Franz
Life, Published on 02/11/2017
» Franz Kafka's world was one that was crushed by a meaningless bureaucratic society and lost without a sense of identity, and this malaise in modern society remains nightmarishly relevant. As part of the "Unfolding Kafka Festival", the exhibition "K: KafKa In KomiKs" is taking place Goethe Institute running from Nov 7 until Dec 17.
The good, the bad and the ugly
Life, Apipar Norapoompipat, Published on 01/11/2017
» If the World Press Photo Exhibition teaches us anything about the world we live in, it's that it is equal parts beautiful and equal parts ugly. The ugly, though, tends to stick. Pollution, assassinations, wars and mutilated animals: they're images that are hard to get out of your mind. They're images that make you question whether humanity has any dignity left. But they're images that the world needs to see to wake up and make a difference.