It’s the middle of February and love is in the air. So, too, is the Marine Corps’ MV-22B Osprey, “the world’s first production tilt-rotor aircraft, combining the best capabilities of a helicopter with the range, airspeed and payload of fixed-wing airplanes"!
Bangkok—A group of young, digitally savvy PDRC protesters has set up a small tent, where, equipped with iMac Airs, they are offering to rewrite the digital past for disgruntled farmers.
Bangkok—A video of four very drunk friends at a bar in Sukhumvit Soi 49 goes viral, causing a stream of memes and new calls for reconciliation. The four friends, two of whom are pro-protests and two of whom pro-election, are seen acting drunk and obnoxious, rehashing the same old arguments both sides have been repeating for months. But by their fifth martini, they become emotional and start to hug and cry, slurring that friendship is the most important thing in life.
Hi and welcome to our social media seminar on how to write news about the protests.
Rule #1. Don’t actually go to the protests. Any new media company knows that only idiots hire actual reporters. So just wait for Thai Rath or The Nation or some other old-school newspaper to send reporters and then you can copy their stories.
Rule #2. Pick a side, produce poorly researched one-sided garbage, and then ask for donations. The more biased and borderline crazy you are, the more money you’ll make.
It’s been an emotionally trying time for cinema-lovers this month. Titan of the Asian scene Run Run Shaw decided that, after a grand old 106 years*, it was finally time to roll the end credits and bow out. Then a crowd of more than 100 foreign workers staged a sit-in protest at the Rex, after the theater was forced to cancel the premiere of Tamil movie Veeram, for which some of them had queued up for more than six hours.
Bangkok—In the wake of PDRC speakers proudly claiming to be the most stylish protests in the world, international style-makers Suzy Menkes and Bryan Boy met at TCDC today in a bid to find a solution to Thailand’s fashion impasse.
Filipino star blogger Bryan Boy opened by declaring his strong support for the protesters. “This is not red, this not yellow, this is the new bling, honey. The lamé caps are just gorgeous, the finely-chiseled whistles are amazing. This is the height of style. Thailand has the world’s most stylish protesters, end of story.”
Bangkok – Today, Yingluck Shinawatra, Suthep Thaugsuban, Abhisit Vejjajiva and Sukhumbhand Paribatra shocked onlookers when they came out on the PDRC stage to announce their plans for a car-free day in Bangkok had been a resounding hit.
“For years, we’ve been trying to get you guys to leave your cars at home,” Suthep began explaining, to the disbelieving crowd of die-hard protesters.
“But nothing worked. We were ready to give up,” confirmed an emotional-looking Yingluck.
It is me, the Divine Unborn Child of Lin Hui the Holy Panda Mother of Chiang Mai Zoo. Yes, pathetic humans, like all Saintly Pandas, I, Panda God Baby, can communicate telepathically—or via free weekly lifestyle magazines—in times of great pain and epic traffic jams. I bear (ha ha) a message of great import for you miserable souls: The Shutdown is coming.
With the New Year already here and Chinese New Year almost upon us, everyone’s busy clearing out the boring and old to make way for the shiny and new. Getting rid of all the negative energy that’s built up in the last 12 months and replacing it with something altogether more positive and productive. Or, as the process is nowadays known: Goodbye Candy Crush, hello Candy Crush Dreamworld.
After the worst riots here in 40 years, the government moved quickly to enact an alcohol ban in Little India, citing the problems caused when large groups of men gather to drink cheap liquor on the street on Sundays, starting fights and generally making a nuisance of themselves. In some quarters the new rules were judged reactionary, if not a little racist. Thankfully, the Body Of Over Zealous executives (BOOZE) this week stepped in to clarify the rules about when, where and why you’re allowed to drink in public here.