• OPINION

  New political bloods meet baptism of fire

  News, Kong Rithdee, Published on 10/03/2018

  » The right is thrown into panic, like a sick man visited by an apparition of death. Sealed in a cage of obliviousness, they fear the galloping sound of apocalyptic horsemen. Or in their mind, the barbarians at the gate, rattling the rusty chain of power.

• OPINION

  The theory of Hawking as a parallel Thai

  News, Kong Rithdee, Published on 17/03/2018

  » Had Stephen Hawking been born here, the fate of astrophysics would likely have been different: no Theory of Everything, just a Hypothesis of Nothing. Had he been born here, the starburst of his extraordinary life would have been sucked into a black hole, a metaphorical black hole, and the proof that the universe can be so unkind to some people would have been concluded.

• LIFE

  Historic film of King Rama VI's funeral available to view

  Life, Kong Rithdee, Published on 11/10/2017

  » As the royal funeral of King Rama IX nears, a visual record of another royal funeral is now available online and provides a historical insight into a rare state event.

• OPINION

  'Superheroes' fail to rescue democracy

  News, Kong Rithdee, Published on 26/03/2016

  » We thought it would be Batman v Superman: Yawn of Justice. But it turned out to be a cut-rate spectacle performed on a sidewalk by inept actors. We thought it would be a bout between the National Council for Peace and Order (NCPO) and the Constitution Drafting Committee (CDC), a contest of will and superpower. But then it revealed itself to be a badly scripted soap opera executed by elderly actors who read their lines without a wink.

• OPINION

  The premier and our age so full of fury

  News, Kong Rithdee, Published on 06/02/2016

  » ‘Angry people are not always wise,” Jane Austen wrote in Pride and Prejudice.

• OPINION

  South doesn't need any more gun-slingers

  News, Kong Rithdee, Published on 08/11/2014

  » When you have cowboys and gun-slingers running the circus, it's likely to be all bang-bang. An eye for an eye, a rifle for a rifle, a kill for a kill, and as the Apache warriors storm the citadels of the new frontiers, the sheriffs are prodded to become trigger-happy.

• LIFE

  What you’re watching is not a film

  Life, Kong Rithdee, Published on 09/05/2014

  » The conversion is complete, or at least, virtually complete. When you go to a cinema today, it’s a certainty that what you’re watching on the screen is not “a film”, but a digital projection of bits and bytes stored in a hard disk and transformed into images.

• LIFE

  The magic has gone

  Life, Kong Rithdee, Published on 31/05/2013

  » These prestidigitators pique our interest: four magicians with cocky talents put on a show in Las Vegas in which they transport a randomly picked member of the audience to a Paris bank and steal 3 million from its vault. Real money, of course, and the booty is distributed, falling like confetti from the ceiling, on to the viewers in the Las Vegas hall. Legerdemain or witchcraft? Hypnosis or illusion?

• LIFE

  Epic Leap

  Life, Kong Rithdee, Published on 19/09/2012

  » The man is 52, and yet retains his youthful vibe. His dark-framed glasses, besides his bright face, are what help us recognise him. He shows up slightly late, as to be expected from a founder, top executive, chief brain and nerve centre of one of the country's most powerful showbiz companies. On his desk is a dish of egg tarts, his choice sweet. He smiles and invites us to join him. Outside the office window of Workpoint Entertainment stretches out the vast, dry, flat, skyscraper-less expanse of Pathum Thani.

• OPINION

  If the TV went a breast too far, then turn it off

  News, Kong Rithdee, Published on 23/06/2012

  » Ray Bradbury was right: Television destroys culture and makes us dumb. Turn on the blow-torch and burn books, because the mass hypnotism prescribed by TV is the status quo of modern consciousness. Regardless of your race or religion, your colour and your god, your sex or age, everyone has the same altar upon which daily worshipping is proffered, prime-time or otherwise. Every house has the same shrine, flickering, rectangular, sucking the hologrammed gods from space.

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