Thai soft power politics on the ground

In Thailand's overflowing teacup, it was yet another passing storm. Danupha "Milli" Khanatheerakul, a 19-year-old rapper who became an overnight celebrity at the recent Coachella Music Festival in the United States, has rattled Thailand to its core foundations and highlighted much that is still right and everything that is wrong with this country. The consequences of her global exhibition of Thailand's sticky rice and ripe ma....