Archive for April, 2008
“Power-Crazy Thaksin” – Man City, Didn’t We Tell You So?
As if we wouldn’t know it: Money makes the world go round. Or so thought the great puppet master Thaksin Shinawatra, owner of honorable Manchester City Football Club. After having behaved like the owner of the Kingdom of Thailand but being kicked out, he at least could afford to be the owner of a faraway
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T.B.G.I. – Thai Bar Girl Investigations
Admit it. Some people can’t even trust their own shadow. How you want to trust a beautiful slender girl you met in a Bangkok bar who is promising you eternal faithfulness and love. Maybe there’s a catch. In Thailand, country of deep distrusts, there’s an own industry of people making a living from untrustworthy people.
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Vote Now! Thailand’s Top 100 Blogs
The basic commandment of a blogger is: Thou shall be happy when you’ve even got one single reader. Well, absolutely went to quite some readership since its birth in September ’07. But thanks to fellow blogger Matt over at The Lost Boy the time for self-delusion is definitively over. Matt created the Top 100 Thailand
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Cocktails For A Good Cause
Every month Bangkok’s beautiful and successful meet at Bangkok’s Plaza Athénée for “Cocktails & Cones” – a by now legendary smart-casual afterwork gathering for a good cause: A substantial part of the 450 baht entrance ticket goes to the Lotus Flower Foundation – a foundation helping severely abused and trafficked children in Thailand. I recently
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The Scoop: Thailand’s Newest Premium Beer “Federbräu”
// I’m quite excited as a beer lover. Doesn’t happen every day that a new premium beer is launched in Thailand. That’s exactly what is going to happen: Under the brand “Federbräu” Thai Beverage, owner of Chang beer, is launching a beer it’s labeling as premium all around. Heineken watch out. Federbräu will be the
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Bam Janista, Banharn’s Golden Girl
Meet Janista “Bam” Liewchalermwong, the favorite girl of no lesser than Chart Thai party leader Banharn Silpa-Archa. Bam was a fixture front and center with Banharn in past election campaigns, glowing like a gem in her perfect makeup in the midst of the regular lumps of coal. She’s always been easy on the eyes, The
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Lèse Majesté Charges For Keeping Cinema Seat
You ever wondered if somebody will keep the seat? When you’re going to the cinema in Thailand, we all enjoy the royal anthem and rise in respect. Not so Chotisak Onsoong, an enemy of the ’06 coup, who refused to stand up when the anthem was played. The former student activist was charged with lèse
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Tidbits: Chuan, Mövenpick, Thonglor
Chuan does all the Democrats’ talk these days, Mövenpick Ice Cream goes to Bangkok – and Thonglor condo projects celebrate a golden era. The most important first – and no argues: Mövenpick, the best ice cream in the world, goes to Thailand. Not a micron of chemicals in it, all delicious purity with lots of
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I Have A Thing For Asia
Man, if I had to name one continent that really just does it for me, there’s no question which one I’d pick: Asia. It just drives me wild. I know that a lot of my friends still don’t get it, and I’ve gotten my share of glares from ex-girlfriends, but you know what? It’s their
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Bangkok Love Story Of The Gay Kind
There’s a world out there in Bangkok you may not be too aware of. The world of lesbians and gays, a world of taboos and clichés. With Bangkok Love Story “the boldest Thai gay movie to date” has recently been released. Directed by Poj Arnon, the Thai flick is a gay romantic crime action drama.
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