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Brakes abandoned in 'Phnom penh express'
B Magazine, Ezra Kyrill Erker, Published on 17/02/2013
» A Belgian-educated Khmer, a female Hezbollah-financing Israeli crime boss, a sexy Cambodian-born Mossad agent, a gung-ho US embassy worker and a Belgian ex-military diamond lord. In Phnom Penh Express, a first novel by Thailand-based Johan Smits, this quintet of self-serving characters cast their nets and drag each other ever closer in an implausible but highly readable thriller as tension mounts. Set in a Phnom Penh riddled with corruption and mismanagement, an imbroglio of misplaced packages and mistaken identity unfolds, as assassinations go awry amid an international turf battle.
Victor victorious in putting world film fest on the map
B Magazine, Ezra Kyrill Erker, Published on 18/11/2012
» It has been a busy year for Kriengsak "Victor" Silakong. Fresh from directing the 19-show run of the successful Reya: The Musical, he now has to make sure a 10-day film festival comprising 84 films from around the world _ as well as surrounding functions, visits by international guests and pageantry _ goes off without a hitch.
Going deep into the waterways of life
B Magazine, Ezra Kyrill Erker, Published on 01/07/2012
» Visitors to Bangkok 100 years ago described a city of tree-lined canals and floating markets, of languid ferry drivers taking people around town. In a modern age of choking traffic, concrete high-rises and hectic urban life, such images of the past are still layered with nostalgia.
Bringing hearts and Seoul to Thailand
Spectrum, Ezra Kyrill Erker, Published on 26/02/2012
» When 54 South Korean teachers arrived in Thailand on Sept 28 last year, their culture shock was compounded by the flooding disaster under way then. Many of the teachers, here on a government sponsored exchange programme, saw their classes postponed and some were left to wonder just what they were doing here. Called "volunteer" teachers by the Thai government, they are in fact paid instructors on wages equivalent to those of Thai junior teachers _ around 10,000 baht a month.