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• Keep on smiling ...

  Posted on Friday November 13th, 2009 at 05:44

  Following a recent blog comment about the benefits of positive thinking, just to get the ball rolling again I'm publishing a circular email that I've just received in Thai and English...Apologies to those who have missed my blogs, and thanks for the ...

• Coming 'home' to Thailand - ups and downs

  Posted on Tuesday July 7th, 2009 at 01:22 in thailand tourism, chiang mai, buddha day

  The girls at Yin Yang massage in Loi Kroh, Chiang Mai. No customers, but still smiling!After such a long break away from Thailand, I was feeling naively cheerful. The Thai Air flight from Zurich was two-thirds empty so we could stretch out in comfort...

• Thaivisa: Founder of Thailand's largest online community answers the critics

  Posted on Wednesday June 17th, 2009 at 13:37 in thai news, thaivisa, thai blogs, thailand forum

  Thaivisa is far and away the biggest web-based forum catering for expats in Thailand, and Thaiophiles abroad. As with every successful and expanding enterprise, it has its promoters and detractors; it is loved and hated, envied and dismissed, praised...

• Expat bloggers in Thailand, social responsibility

  Posted on Monday June 15th, 2009 at 15:09 in social issues, thailand's media

  Media priorities have been under the spotlight in recent weeks. The blood and gore in Thai Rath-style tabloids never fail to catch the eye. Sex scandals with a hint of perversion are always good for a scoop; or failing that how about some cute photos...

• Thailand’s tarnished image abroad: Thai tourism in decline

  Posted on Thursday June 11th, 2009 at 14:23 in thailand tourism, thai politics

  Thailand's tourist industry is struggling. Last year we watched with astonishment as three months of protests and the unopposed occupation of Bangkok's Government House culminated in a week-long siege of the country's main airport, Suvarnabhumi, as t...

• David Carradine's Death Photo

  Posted on Sunday June 7th, 2009 at 23:32 in david carradine, thai rath, david carradine's death photo, thai tabloids, thailand's media

  The Thais seem to have a ghoulish liking for explicitly gory photos; or at least, Thailand’s media does. The latest example is ‘Grasshopper’ David Carradine’s death photo, published by one of Thailand’s tabloid newspapers, Thai Rath.Those ...

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