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We can teach China a few cyber cop tricks
News, Kong Rithdee, Published on 17/08/2013
» Send me gifts of Line stickers. Brown, Cony, Mickey, Monsters University, Kerokerokeroppi, whatever - faster, before the tech-savvy Thai police spoil the party and shut the chat down.
Rebels of the neon god
Life, Kong Rithdee, Published on 10/05/2013
» Vithaya Pansringam has the honour of beating Ryan Gosling into a sorry mess. "I feel privileged!" says the 54-year-old kendo expert, ballet school administrator and now first-bill actor of the film Only God Forgives. "Usually, Ryan beats people into a pulp _ did you see Drive? Well, this time he got it, and I got away!"
Self-mockery, not arms, maketh the man
Life, Kong Rithdee, Published on 03/05/2013
» Hollywood's blockbuster season kicks off with a trustworthy bang _ plus a self-referential wink and a whiff of homeland politics to regale the liberals.
Adding polish to Polish fashion
Life, Kong Rithdee, Published on 02/05/2013
» It may not be Paris, Milan or New York, but Fashionphilosophy: Fashion Week Poland bubbled with all the energy of a young design industry demanding deserved attention. Over five days, from April 17-21, nearly 50 shows from established as well as upcoming Polish brands _ with some guests from neighbouring Eastern European countries _ took the runway at two venues in the city of Lodz, 90 minutes from Warsaw.
Angsumalin in Wonderland
Life, Kong Rithdee, Published on 05/04/2013
» The visual reference of the latest Khu Kam movie, our favourite love-amidst-Allied-bombing drama, is Japanese manga. Precisely the kind that features a gamine girl with extra-large eyes embroiled in a bickering, cruel flirtation with a smart, slim boy with extra-thick eyebrows and playful arrogance, preferably attired in a uniform. For a few minutes, it seems like an attempt at revisionism of a 48-year-old novel about a patriotic girl torn by her love of a dashing Japanese soldier as the Emperor's Army coaxes its passage through Siam during World War II. A shot at contemporarising a classic, so to speak, only that the outcome is closer to trivialising it.
Asia's alter ego
Life, Kong Rithdee, Published on 29/03/2013
» Two upcoming film showcases explore the many faces of Asean and offer a close look at Thailand.
Going to jail for writing is a horror story
Business, Kong Rithdee, Published on 09/03/2013
» Interestingly, getting people killed can't be as bad as disturbing people. Fatal recklessness isn't as unforgivable as deliberate provocation. At one extreme, murder is sometimes more tolerable than writing. To know how to toe the line, to know what to write and what not to write, has become a political as well as literary dilemma - and here we're talking about Chinese Nobel literature laureate Mo Yan's semi-endorsement of censorship and jailed editor Somyot Prueksakasemsuk's sentence for breaking the lese majeste law. And we thought clemency was the way of our world.
Love and other nightmares
Life, Kong Rithdee, Published on 08/02/2013
» What's more vicious than a ghost, as we Thais know from folklore and legends, is a female ghost wrecked by motherly love (in the Thai version, she would've been locked up in a clay pot). The gnarly, ferocious banshee in Mama is driven as much by post-humous rage as by fearsome tenderness, and save for some moments of dread up until mid-way, she scored slightly below-average on our fear-hardened scare metre.
Being Brody
Life, Kong Rithdee, Published on 11/01/2013
» On Christmas Day last year, Adrien Brody was in Angkor Wat _ on his own. "I had a backpack on, a hat, a beard, I don't walk with the security detail," he gestures at the staff looming near where we're talking.
Peter chan_ balancing on the cutting edge
B Magazine, Kong Rithdee, Published on 06/01/2013
» Facing a forest of reporters' microphones, Peter Ho Sun Chan speaks Thai with the slight accent of someone who remembers the tongue, but not the spontaneity.