• LIFE

  For the days that remain

  Life, Kong Rithdee, Published on 17/11/2017

  » Challenging taboos, one of Thailand's most popular directors returns with a film that looks death in the eye

• THAILAND

  Court cites national security to extend 'Shakespeare' ban

  News, Kong Rithdee, Published on 12/08/2017

  » The Administrative Court yesterday rejected the complaint filed by the filmmakers of Shakespeare Must Die in which they asked for the ban on the film to be lifted, thereby extending a ban that has already lasted five years.

• OPINION

  Keep Somchai from the black hole of history

  News, Kong Rithdee, Published on 11/03/2017

  » 'Top Muslim lawyer disappears. Believed abducted for opposing martial law," read a headline in this newspaper 13 years ago.

• LIFE

  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.

• LIFE

  Hat-trick for Thai cinema

  Life, Kong Rithdee, Published on 06/02/2015

  » In the snowy German capital, the year's first major cinema festival has kicked off. The 65th Berlin International Film Festival (or Berlinale, as it's better known) opened last night with Nobody Wants The Night, a drama by Spanish director Isabel Coixet, starring Juliette Binoche and Rinko Kikuchi. Some of the hot world premieres include Terrence Malick's Knight Of Cups, Kenneth Branagh's Cinderella, Werner Herzog's Queen Of The Desert, and other art-house darlings. The Berlinale runs until Feb 15, with the Golden Bear being announced next weekend.

• OPINION

  Mindanao offers lessons for South

  News, Kong Rithdee, Published on 05/04/2014

  » There are signs of uncertainty. No, not the red-shirt rendezvous on Utthayan Road or the summit of the Suthep Thaugsuban-led movements at Lumpini Park, both happening with egoistic drum rolling today. As usual, Bangkok politics has the kind of narcissism and surreal influence that monopolises the headlines and consigns other struggles — more real, more fatal struggles — to the attic of our attention. If the way forward is decentralisation, let’s start by at least trying to look further afield than Bangkok’s face-off and the oratory salvoes of Mr Suthep and Jatuporn Prompan.

• LIFE

  Recording the language of life

  Life, Kong Rithdee, Published on 29/11/2013

  » Mary is happy, Mary is happy _ say it twice, like a mindless mantra, and the prescription for teenage bliss takes on a melancholic undertone.

• LIFE

  Radiohead redux

  Life, Kong Rithdee, Published on 26/07/2013

  » Every day Amnarj Sonimsart wakes up at 3am. "That's normal for an 80-year-old," he chuckles. The first thing he does is flick on the TV to catch BBC and CNN; then he checks the stock and oil prices, noting down important fluctuations for later use. At 4.20am _ he states the time with the casual precision of someone who's been following the same schedule without fail for a long time _ his driver takes him from his house in Pattanakarn to the radio station in Lumpini Park ("my daughter forbids me from driving"). At 5.10, Amnarj begins sipping a cup of Ovaltine while scouring the Thai-language newspapers laid out for him, lighting on items of interest and quickly digesting their contents. On the dot of 5.50am, he prepares for a task he's performed for 46 years straight: leaning slightly forward, he gets ready to switch on his mic and go on air.

• OPINION

  Truth, Prayuth and a few good 'Tob Jote' men

  News, Kong Rithdee, Published on 23/03/2013

  » Army chief Prayuth Chan-ocha is Jack Nicholson, lashing out against unpatriotic puppies who dare to ask hard questions.

• LIFE

  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.

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