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To Kony or not to Kony
Life, Onsiri Pravattiyagul, Published on 14/03/2012
» Kony 2012 has become the fastest viral campaign in history. Even if you only get on Facebook, Twitter or YouTube once a day for a short period of time, you can't escape Kony 2012 video, #stopkony or at least one of your friends wax poetry about the plight of African children or the cruelty of warlord Joseph Kony and his Lord's Resistance Army.
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Thailand, branded
Life, Onsiri Pravattiyagul, Published on 13/06/2012
» Thai authorities are very good at wasting taxpayers' money. Even setting aside the ongoing diabolical corruption, our governments - past, present and future - have a knack of spending our hard earned cash in the most nonsensical manner. Elite cards? Bangkok Fashion City? Tablets? Fake CCTV cameras? The litany goes on.
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Musical brawl
Life, Onsiri Pravattiyagul, Published on 27/06/2012
» Like all ruling political parties, Pheu Thai has the upper hand in launching initiative after initiative. It doesn't matter how idiotic it might seem to us. In the same vein, Pheu Thai often comes up with streams of ideas which they claim to be culled for the greater good and the voting public. But reality often proves otherwise.
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A lot to unlike about F***book
Life, Onsiri Pravattiyagul, Published on 22/08/2012
» The internet. You can't live with it. You can't live without it. "With or without you," as Bono would croon, we are screwed.
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Word vomit insulting to Thai women
Life, Onsiri Pravattiyagul, Published on 05/09/2012
» Meet Sunai Julphongsathorn, our distinguished member of parliament from the equally distinguished Pheu Thai party.
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Discretion is the better part of valour
Life, Onsiri Pravattiyagul, Published on 08/11/2013
» While Thailand is currently buzzing with the anti-amnesty bill protests, this week another news item also captured my attention. It would have been elevated to talk-of-the-town status if it weren't for the current political quagmire.
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What happened to Thailand's vaunted tolerance?
Life, Onsiri Pravattiyagul, Published on 07/01/2014
» During the boozy holiday season, between drinking bouts, I came across a disturbing post concerning how a famous Thonglor watering hole refused entry to a pretty transgendered person on the grounds that their new policy wouldn't allow any transgender women to receive the joy of overpriced drinks, inane music and shrieking boozehounds.
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Beauty and the eye of the beholder
Life, Onsiri Pravattiyagul, Published on 06/02/2014
» For the past few weeks, I've been mulling over three separate pieces of news.
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In the name of 'liberalism'?
Life, Onsiri Pravattiyagul, Published on 24/04/2014
» If I have to pin down one word that I hear more than “selfie” these days, it would have to be “liberal”. The term gets thrown around so much, it should have been hit out of a ball park already.
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Finding solace in Rage
Life, Onsiri Pravattiyagul, Published on 28/05/2014
» Music has always been an integral part of my life. As a kid, I’d bonded with my dad over his Western tunes and <i>luk thung</i> numbers — something that lovingly sticks with me until today.
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