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The Thaksin Cancer & Boycott
The final days of the red mayhem have shown the red revolution was not about the people it claimed to fight for. It was about the very narrow interests of a small group of already privileged people hijacking the downtrodden, hopeful and innocent. But a struggle armed to the teeth and not negotiating in good
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Consumer Protection: Not Lost In Bangkok’s Probably Biggest Building
No kidding. That building is huge. The new home of Thailand’s Consumer Protection Board OCPB at Chaengwattana’s new Government Administrative Center up north. Kind of post-Soviet modernism. Massively impressive with its unending atrium. The Election Commission‘s in the same absolutely monstrous, still unfinished überbuilding. But my trade of the day was the Office of Consumer Protection,
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Bangkok Poetization
Everyone’s a writer or an artist in a way. Everyone, at some point, kept a diary or dared a few strokes of the brush. But over time, busy with one’s own life of daily routine and obligations, the artist within dies. Arriving in Bangkok, many again feel that long gone artist in themselves. To “materialize”
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Will’s Zen Of The Electric Guitar Elephant Dream
This is neither Kafka nor glorious Not The Nation, but proof that embattled Thailand may still fulfill anyone’s dream: Phuket Wan brings us the lovely story of a Melbourne man who … You’ll have to read the whole thing. And there’s a message in Will’s dream of a jumbo solo. Kind of like irresistible Zooey
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Career Jump? It’s Franchise Show Time
If you’re one of those people beginning the morning in a largely lethargic manner not really knowing if you still like what you’re doing for a living, here’s a possible loophole how to get restarted: Open up a franchise business. As fate would have it the Business Opportunity Franchise & Better Shop Retail Show is
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Detox Revisited
Our early readers may remember our early piece Colonary Treats In Bangkok: Detox Yourself. Well, we’ve done the hard research work again, as it was time for another yearly detox cleanse, I mean, a colonic irrigation. Rejuvenating, to say the least. You may sniff at it, but it just feels ecstatic having your guts cleaned.
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Apple, Strawberry & Prune
Not, those are no nicknames of local belles. But something’s in the air … The unique scents of apple, strawberry and prune lingering about … And what’s that strange bubbling sound? Shishas, hookahs, water pipes … You find them everywhere these days in Thailand. People chuffing fruity tobacco, herbs and such. No weed or dope
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Heal Society, Celebrate Bangkok’s New Favorite Pastime: K.I.P.
After some R.I.P. we got some K.I.P. – Bangkok’s new favorite pastime: Kissing in Public – celebrating an art that is not really publicly celebrated in pathologically kiss-timid Thailand. There’s a Thai project dedicated to the art: Kissing-in-Public is not yet that lively, but hey, revolutionary ideas always need some acceleration time until they take
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Time To Confess
Time has come to confess. Not an easy decision. It was my best kept secret. Since I was made aware of the very object of my deep affection I had jealously tried to guard to myself. I hid my growing addiction from everybody’s eyes. Until recently, when I had lunch at downtown Emporium with a
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Energy Saving In Bangkok? Peanuts
Pain at the pump? Worried about 40 baht for the liter of benzine? Naa, this is nothing. Take comfort in the brave Europeans. Try Amsterdam or Oslo, where a liter of 95-octane unleaded will set you back around 70 baht a liter. This May ’08. Who knows about tomorrow. See? Gas is still too cheap
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