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Flexing his muscles
Life, Kaona Pongpipat, Published on 09/05/2013
» Being sick is usually a good excuse to stay off work, but for veteran watercolour painter and teacher Kosol Pinkul it's the other way round. Suffering from muscular weakness, far from taking the chance to retire and rest, the 69-year-old artist continued to work and later proved painting can be not only creatively powerful, but physically rehabilitating as well.
Light it up
Life, Kaona Pongpipat, Published on 28/05/2013
» From a quick glance, the Moken sea gypsy community at Moo Koh Surin's Ao Bon, off the southern coast of Phangnga province, seemed just as it had always been over the years; rows of raised huts are set right at the shoreline, men are busy with their boats, women (some topless) are engrossed in their handicraft work and little kids run around.
Consultancy takes off
Life, Kaona Pongpipat, Published on 28/05/2013
» From childhood and through-out her working career, Atchara Juicharern has always had within her a passion for teaching. She has always loved talking to a large audience, but unlike being a stand-up comedian, she not only wanted to entertain but to inform, and have the audience learn something educational and useful in an enjoyable way. So while it's not what she planned, it probably shouldn't come as a complete surprise that she founded and currently manages AcComm & Image International, a leadership and staff development consulting company.
Chinn's up in the kitchen
Life, Kaona Pongpipat, Published on 03/06/2013
» Ask Bobby Chinn to introduce himself and the answer, fired off in a single breath, is: "I'm half-Egyptian, half-Chinese. Born in New Zealand. Educated in England. From San Francisco. Have been living in Vietnam for the last 18 years." A pause, then the punch: "Oh, and I was conceived in Thailand."
Visual autobiography
Life, Kaona Pongpipat, Published on 14/06/2013
» It is more fitting to call Chalood Nimsamer's latest exhibition a visual autobiography.
Pandora's paradox
Life, Kaona Pongpipat, Published on 19/06/2013
» This coming Monday, June 24, marks the 81st anniversary of the birth of democracy in Thailand. It's been a rough road we've taken since the 1932 Revolution, followed by subsequent coups and counter-coups, the decades of dictatorship, the student uprisings, the money politics and the complication of visible and invisible forces, right up to our deep divides of now. All of these are presented in an ambitious documentary film to be released on Monday. Prachathipathai, or Paradoxocracy, chronicles and comments on the eight-decade journey of Thai-style democracy whose past is sometimes forgotten and whose future is always uncertain.
Snappy days
Life, Kaona Pongpipat, Published on 01/07/2013
» It comes as no surprise that Dr Brady Barr _ National Geographic's resident reptile expert _ finds the thousands of crocodilians he has caught so far to be his "comfort zone". To date, he is famed for having landed more than 5,000 crocodiles and alligators.
TV killed the reality star
Life, Kaona Pongpipat, Published on 03/07/2013
» Reality TV has become an indispensable form of entertainment for Thai audiences _ Thailand's Got Talent is still going and the 10th season of the popular Academy Fantasia, which sparked the reality-show craze here, began last week. Over the past decade, there's no doubt we have come to enjoy the novelty of "unexpected" and "unpredictable" turns of events and observe "unrehearsed" human behaviour, as opposed to other TV shows and series.
Courage down to his bones
Life, Kaona Pongpipat, Published on 09/07/2013
» For most people in their early 20s, it's either about building good careers that can make lots of money for brighter futures, or searching for love to ensure even more complete and happier lives. But for 24-year-old Teerapat Boonyakiat, it's all about doing everything he can to stay alive.