Archive for September, 2007
Why Are Thai Women Not Like That
“I can’t believe that Thailand has become like this,” she says. “Why does no one think of Thailand in that light?” “Why do Thai women let people do that to them?” Many answers to your questions dear vlogger jeerawan. Just to mention discipline, solid morals and ethics, a healthy sense of self-respect, to assume what
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Hail 2010, Year of More Liberal Booze
As we all know, being a wine lover in Thailand is an elitist thing. Imports being taxed over 200%, because wine lovers are considered to be snobs who can afford any price. An average bottle sets you back at least the double of the price you pay in the West. Or even in Vietnam or
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Where Are The Tourists?
Where are our dear foreign guests who usually invade the kingdom this time around? This is by no means a post backed up by hard facts and figures, but by simple observation and talks with tourists and hoteliers alike. OK, last year’s high season was a non-event after Bangkok’s airport seizures. But don’t only blame
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Warring Colors
An Al Jazeera feature: For three years Thailand has been divided into two political camps, the yellows and the reds. Rageh Omaar asks is the country at the brink of a bloody conflict. Thailand has emerged from months of political turmoil and street protests with a new, conservative government and now the country’s Oxford-educated Abhisit
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Beauty’s Moral Decay
Finally we see some focused government action in these trying times. Not only the Ministry of Information & Communication Technology is overly active these days to ensure a pure and prosperous society. We learn that the Ministry of Health “is considering action against alcohol beverage firms that distribute calendars clearly showing their brand names or
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OMG
A problematic ground is always a fertile ground for religions. From a church’s official press release: “More than 36,000 Christians representing more than 1,700 churches across Thailand are prepared to implement My Hope, a successful outreach project of the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association (BGEA). Evangelistic meetings will be taking place in homes, churches schools and
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Street Food
It’s hard to not notice the Thai passion for food. Most first time visitors to Thailand are impressed with the sight of people cooking along street corners and alleys. The scent of garlic burning in hot oil, the fragrance of sweet sticky rice and mango (khao niauw ma mouang), the activity early morning at a
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Innocence Lost
Wanna know about the inner workings of the Royal Thai Police? You heard all the hearsay and read some of those stories. But do you have proof? Did you learn anything the hard way? Here’s an eyewitness account: Recently I was visiting a friend in Rangsit. It was a Friday night and we decided while
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Swine Flu: Done
Somewhere I read of parties thrown overseas to deliberately get the swine flu in the hopes of becoming immunized. Well, somehow I managed to come down with the flu without a party. Actually not me alone. My wife showed her first symptoms a few hours after mine started. Yes, it seems to spread that fast. No
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Elite Goes Anti-Democrat
Here’s an interesting open letter to the governor of Bangkok, “Building Nightmare on Sukhumvit,” written by our regular contributor Vongthip Chumpani, an ardent supporter of the new order. The letter was recently published in The Nation’s Letter to the Editors section, raising the issue of the Sukhumvit area’s over-building and over-crowding. Khun Vongthip sure has
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