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    Rural doctor challenges Phue Thai

    Terry Fredrickson, Published on 30/06/2011

    » Phue Thai is confident of winning in nine Chiang Mai constituencies, but a popular rural doctor stands a good chance of denying them a tenth.

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    Three months of edgy grassroots art

    Life, Ariane Kupferman-Sutthavong, Published on 06/07/2018

    » Bangkok's first-ever Biennial officially kicked off on Sunday night with an evening aerobics session on the Chao Phraya riverside at a popular spot for dwellers and sports lovers beneath the Rama VIII bridge. The choice of location -- anchored in Bangkok residents' daily lives -- and the disruptive event itself -- complete with ceremonial opening remarks and a ribbon-cutting moment -- set the tone (i.e. caustic, critical and edgy) for the many art exhibitions and activities to be held in Bangkok and elsewhere in Thailand in the coming months.

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    The rebranding of 'big brother' Gen Prawit

    Oped, Thana Boonlert, Published on 02/09/2022

    » A day after Gen Prayut Chan-o-cha was suspended from his prime ministerial duties, Paiboon Nititawan, deputy leader of the ruling Palang Pracharath Party, was handing out a biography on Gen Prawit Wongsuwon, now acting PM, to reporters.

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    Tai dishes the dirt, Au lashes Chor party, Blue feels heat

    News, Mae Moo, Published on 14/07/2019

    » Former actress Saitarn "Tai" Niyomkarn has dished the dirt on her former boyfriend, accusing him of raising a wife and family on the sly and systematically defrauding people.

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    Hanging politics on the wall

    Life, Ariane Kupferman-Sutthavong, Published on 31/05/2017

    » Art and artists aren't as detached from worldly matters as many like to think. In the past couple of years, contemporary artists have undoubtedly given form to some of the most daring and powerful expressions of our collective feelings of angst, unrest and hope -- while increasingly becoming aware of, and subject to, the restrictions on freedoms that are in place.

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    Memories buried in soil

    Life, Kong Rithdee, Published on 19/07/2019

    » Memories and war, illusory borders and invisible scars: These themes are resonant in two documentary films shown late last month at the SAC Film Festival (hosted by the Princess Maha Chakri Sirindhorn Anthropology Centre). In the Thai documentary Din Rai Dan (Soil Without Land), a Tai Yai man in Shan state talks about his life as a waiter in Bangkok and as a soldier in his ethnic army. In the Vietnamese film The Future Cries Beneath Our Soil, a group of men in a rural village bear the indelible wounds of the Vietnam War, still stinging after 40 years.

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    Govt targets cost of living

    Terry Fredrickson, Published on 09/05/2012

    » Yesterday, the government announced a number of anti-inflation measures with more planned if prices continue to go up.

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