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Amazing achievement
Asia focus, Published on 29/05/2017
» Aung Myo Min Din is a self-made man. Not yet 50, the founder and chairman of the Myanmar hotel chain Amazing Hotels & Resorts is a rags-to-riches story that is, yes, an amazing testament to the fruits of hard labour.
Autocratic filmmaking is our forte
News, Kong Rithdee, Published on 20/12/2014
» In the week Sony censored itself and shelved the Christmas Day release of The Interview, a comedy about the assassination of North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, I'm reminded of this slim book on my desk which I sometimes flip to random pages. One has this: "In the capitalist system of filmmaking the director is called 'director' but, in fact, the right of supervision and control over film production is entirely in the hands of the tycoons of the filmmaking industry who have the money, whereas the directors are nothing but their agents."