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Developing Thailand's next super app
Business, Published on 04/08/2022
» The rise of super apps in Southeast Asia has raised the bar in providing an all-encompassing, seamless user experience. Super apps are essentially digital platforms that provide multiple services, such as delivery, travel, payments and social media.
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Another police killing of a black man stokes US tension, debate
AFP, Published on 15/06/2020
» WASHINGTON - The fatal shooting of a black man by a white police officer, this time in Atlanta, Georgia, poured more fuel Sunday on a raging US debate over racism after another round of street protests and the resignation of the city's police chief.
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Drifter charged with murder over Colorado shooting
AFP, Published on 01/12/2015
» COLORADO SPRINGS - A drifter was charged with first-degree murder over a shooting spree that killed three people and wounded nine at a family planning center in Colorado.
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Cannes Day 8: Killing me softly
Kong Rithdee, Published on 04/01/2015
» Brad Pitt is here. He plays Jackie Cogan, the typically violent and fashionably cheeky hitman in "Killing Them Softly". The film is so stylised that you thought the director, Andrew Dominik, was actually trying to impress Jean-Paul Gaultier, who sits on Cannes' jury this year. Each murder, by Cogan mostly, is designed to its nano-second detail, with every shard of bullet-shattered glass visible in its fatal, mid-air flight. Amidst the killings and score-settling, Barack Obama, on TV, campaigns for new America and the soundbites constantly tell us how badly the economy is doing. "Killing Them Softly" is a film that's so conscious about its cleverness that it seems less clever eventually, and one of the clever messages it constantly reminds us is summed up in Cogan's last sentence: "America is not a country, it's a business." I wonder if Quentin Tarantino could've made it more subtle, and more comical.
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Cannes' line-up promises a big year
Life, Kong Rithdee, Published on 04/01/2015
» As is tradition, it will be helter-skelter in Cannes. The archangels will descend on the red carpet while the critics, all few thousand of them, will practice the old sport of vulturism, eyeing the wrecks and picking up the carcasses, when the the 65th Cannes Film Festival begins tonight (a week later than usual to allow the dust of the French presidential election to settle). There are 22 films in Cannes' Competition _ the most coveted contest in the world, sort of _ and most of them are latest works by brand-name directors who will, like futuristic priests, lead us to a prayer at Our Church of Cinema, godly and satanic. To many, the festival is also an annual rite of self-flagellation. Better bring your own whips.
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Cheating 'Twilight' star steals thunder at Toronto film fest
AFP, Published on 07/09/2012
» A sullen and nervous Kristen Stewart grabbed the spotlight at the opening of the Toronto film festival late Thursday in the "Twilight" star's first public appearance since her cheating scandal broke.
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SEX lies, and teddy bears
Life, Published on 07/09/2012
» The last time we saw Jan Dara and the Gothic fornication of his crazy father was not that long ago _ in 2001 to be precise, in Nonzee Nimibutr's humourless film adaptation of Usana Ploengtham's darkly satirical book.
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Cars, crazy cars
Life, Kong Rithdee, Published on 25/05/2012
» He's called Monsieur Oscar, and the name is a cinematic prophecy. He's played by Denis Lavant, the French actor, that compact ball of intense energy who reincarnates from the back of a gigantic limo into a bum, a cybermonster, an assassin, a dying uncle, and other roles in the shades borrowed from other movies and our collective memory of them. In a jaded Cannes Competition this year, Leos Carax's Holy Motors arrived on Wednesday like a humming spaceship, bizarre and irreverent, cheeky and disturbing. Come the awards night on Sunday, pundits are now betting that Carax's first feature film in 13 years will emerge with some wins.
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