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Cyber snoop bill caps off a year from hell
News, Kong Rithdee, Published on 17/12/2016
» It's a contest no one wants to win: Is 2016 the worst year ever?
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Getting our drama kicks, vicariously
News, Kong Rithdee, Published on 03/12/2016
» We're hooked on every detail and development, like a prime-time series that teases with clues and cliffhangers. I mean the Chiang Mai pub brawl case, which is really getting on my nerves.
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Careful what you click, but keep thinking
News, Kong Rithdee, Published on 10/12/2016
» Be careful what you wish for. Be even more careful what you like. Be most careful what you share.
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Exactly who is funnier, us or The Donald?
News, Kong Rithdee, Published on 12/11/2016
» Licking lips with schadenfreude, our pro-military camp now have a real case to gloat at the bigshot USA. The Donald Duck has won! The diabolical evangelist who panders to the poor and the "uneducated", the gluttonous billionaire who thinks he can run a country like a tycoon running a company, the mad CEO/prophet who promises glory but who'll bring the country to ruin.
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King still with us, in photos and memories
News, Kong Rithdee, Published on 22/10/2016
» On the screen we see the King in his Land Rover sluicing through mud in rough terrain. Again on the screen, he is a wiry young man in dark sunglasses and saffron robe, walking barefoot in a royal temple. Next, His Majesty King Bhumibol in dinner jacket -- the footage slightly scratchy -- is deep in a jam session with Western musicians sometime in the last century. Then we see the monarch in full regalia, captured on a Kodak motion picture film, as he proceeds down the street in the opulent pomp of Coronation Day in 1950.
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'Pre-truth' far scarier than 'post-truth'
News, Kong Rithdee, Published on 19/11/2016
» 'Post-truth" -- that's Oxford Dictionaries' word of 2016. Trump-inspired and aided by Facebook algorithms, it clicks. What happens isn't as important as what you think happens, and if you think something is true, then what is true is simply what you think. But truth be told, post-truth still suggests an involvement of truth, how truth is there and yet is blithely bypassed by emotion and prejudice, and thus there's a more dangerous term that fits better in some places: "pre-truth".
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Noble quest to ease misery is not IS support
News, Kong Rithdee, Published on 26/11/2016
» In 2011 Naiem Wongkasorn crossed the border from Turkey into Syria. The civil war had already plunged the country into chaos and it was just before the Islamic State (IS) swept across the land on their evil rampage. Travelling with two Thai friends and some Turkish NGO workers, Naiem found himself in the town of Idlib in northeastern Syria. They were there to donate money raised from Thai donors to the refugee camps.
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Hunting the Antichrists a sign of fear
News, Kong Rithdee, Published on 05/11/2016
» As the mourning period continues, the hunt for Antichrists has also intensified. Are they the two consequences of the same cathartic loss of Oct 13? Yes, definitely. In light there's also darkness, in grief there's also hatred, and in this strange period of limbo the grip is being tightened.
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Youth strike fear into old, cold hearts
News, Kong Rithdee, Published on 08/10/2016
» We can imagine the scene: Twenty policemen mobbed a 19-year-old boy arriving at the airport immigration. They took him to the detention quarters and kept him there, refusing communication, and consequently sent the entire world into a manhunt frenzy. Where's Joshua Wong? What has he done? Or more directly to the heart of the midnight stealth: What did the Thai authorities fear? Why did the mighty state have to send 20 officers -- not five, not 10, but 20 -- to whiz away a skinny boy on a red-eye flight? A boy whom I bet never won a fist-fight in his high-school yard.
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Remember the King in all our complexities
News, Kong Rithdee, Published on 15/10/2016
» We knew it would happen but when it did the blow was grave. We thought we could prepare for the eventuality, for the implacable force of mortality to exert its power, and yet all our mental preparation was swept aside, like a wave of fate's hand, when the announcement of His Majesty King Bhumibol's death was televised on Thursday evening.
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