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A trip to the other world
Life, Kong Rithdee, Published on 18/11/2016
» A quick lowdown on Thai love motels: trashy lighting, soap-smelling beds, bad pillows, cheap porn on the TV and a trove of hush-hush secrets guarded by naked walls. Outside, the thick tarp curtains separate the public from the personal, the exposed from the invisible, the respectable from the randy. Inside, it is another world, a fantasy world, an alien world.
Stunning indictment of a dictator
Life, Published on 11/11/2016
» Several events have been cancelled or postponed since Oct 13. But they will slowly return and one of the most anticipated programmes will take place on Nov 19 at the Bangkok Art and Culture Centre, with the screening of the Romanian film Autobiografia lui Nicolae Ceausescu (The Autobiography Of Nicolae Ceausescu).
Facebook to allow more graphic news
AFP, Published on 22/10/2016
» SAN FRANCISCO - Facebook on Friday said that it will begin allowing more graphic or potentially disturbing newsworthy posts to be shared at the leading online social network.
The historical made personal
Life, Amitha Amranand, Published on 06/10/2016
» We don't know where they are -- a man and a woman, he in a white three-piece suit, she in a white wedding gown. Soon we find out that they don't know where they are either. Then we find out who they are, but soon realise they are not sure.
Hong Kong journalists 'detained and beaten' in China
AFP, Published on 15/09/2016
» HONG KONG - Hong Kong journalists covering violent protests in the rebel Chinese village of Wukan said they were detained and beaten by police as state press slammed "foreign media" for stoking the tensions.
China accused at Asia summit of secret island building
AFP, Published on 07/09/2016
» VIENTIANE - Beijing's "illegal" island building in the South China Sea moved centre stage at an Asian summit Wednesday after the Philippines produced evidence it said showed fresh construction activity at a flashpoint shoal.
Peter Thiel sounds off on Gawker as sale looms
AFP, Published on 16/08/2016
» SAN FRANCISCO - Tech billionaire Peter Thiel sounded off about Gawker Media in a New York Times editorial on Monday as he watched the news and entertainment website head to the auction block.
Demands grow for inquiry into Australia refugee abuse
AFP, Published on 15/08/2016
» SYDNEY - Australia was Monday facing growing opposition demands for an inquiry into its treatment of asylum-seekers on remote Pacific islands after further allegations emerged of abuse against refugees.
The Michelin Guide arrives in Singapore
Life, Vanniya Sriangura, Published on 27/07/2016
» Almost like a meteor shower, the arrival of The Michelin Guide in Singapore brings to the island city a pouring of the illustrious culinary stars -- 37 to be exact.
A Bigger Splash allows actors room to shine
Life, Kong Rithdee, Published on 15/07/2016
» Four characters, white and privileged, play out their favourite game of seduction. They frolic in the sun, nurse their ego, indulge in excesses, splash in the pool of a luxurious villa on an island in the Mediterranean -- also the island where dark-skinned migrants arrive like phantoms after their perilous journey across the sea.