Two of India’s biggest film stars one an aging icon, the other the heart throb of a younger generation are battling for popular approval, their rivalry revealed by subtle digs. Amitabh Bachchan, 64, has ruled the Indian box office for decades, and Shah Rukh Khan, 41, is the reigning star and possibly Bollywood’s highest-paid actor. While the country’s celebrity-gossip journalists have compared their star power, fan following and box office fortunes, the two actors had refused...

BANGKOK (XFN-ASIA) - Finance minister and deputy prime minister Pridiyathorn Devakula announced that he has resigned, citing differences with the prime minister over the handling of the economy.

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The Tears of the Black Tiger. Directed by Wisit Sasanatieng (Thailand) There may be crazier movies than “The Tears of the Black Tiger,” Wisit Sasanatieng’s Thai cowboy melodrama of betrayal and forbidden love, but I can’t think of any that is quite so mad about its own craziness. What is most startling is not Sasanatieng’s compulsive, fetishistic assembly of bits and pieces of the movie past; this kind of pastiche has, over the past decade and a half, gone from...