Thailand
Bangkok’s most bizarre eating experiences
Friday, December 2nd, 2011Bangkok is well known for its oddities, so it should come as no surprise that it has its fair share of peculiar restaurants.
Here are nine of the most bizarre eating spots you’re ever likely to come across in Bangkok.
Hajime Robot Restaurant
At this futuristic Japanese restaurant, the beady-eyed robots not only bring your [...]
Plenty of true grit in the city of sandbags
Sunday, November 6th, 2011Guardian, October 27: Bangkok is a city of sandbags where instant noodles are like gold dust and bottled water like vintage wine. Amid the panic-induced bare shelves there is bewilderment in the air: what exactly is going to happen to Thailand’s capital?
All along downtown Asoke Road, locals have been fortifying their shopfronts, some opting to [...]
On Yer Bike Bangkok
Friday, September 16th, 2011Tiger Tales September-October 2011 On Yer Bike Bangkok PDF
The price of volunteering in Thailand
Wednesday, August 24th, 2011What are the differences between paid and unpaid programs? Volunteers and organizers weigh in
Mahatma Gandhi once said, “The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.” It’s perhaps with that thought in mind that thousands of travelers arrive in Thailand every year to volunteer.
But it can be difficult [...]
10 easy ways to look like a tourist in Bangkok
Friday, July 8th, 2011So you wanna go to Bangkok, but you’re worried about not fitting in with the other tourists?
Those fears are understandable. The choices are overwhelming: what not to wear, how to dress without looking like a chump, where to party until the sun comes up.
Luckily we’re here to help, so if you don’t want to stick [...]
Countdown to coup
Friday, April 1st, 2011LONDON: There’s a familiar tension simmering in Thailand. Growing dissatisfaction among the middle and lower classes is close to ruining a bubbling political hotpot in the hands of Abhisit Vejjajiva, an unelected pretty-boy prime minister whose rise to power was only possible thanks to deals struck with the army and corrupt politicians.
But the people have [...]
Bangkok’s best and worst of 2010
Thursday, December 30th, 2010CNNGo December 27, 2010 — It was a riotous year for Thailand in 2010. The rural masses took to the streets of Bangkok and brought the city to a standstill with their futile attempts to get to the front of the queue for an imported brand of donut, only to be shooed away by the [...]
Rights groups blast Thailand for lack of action on child porn
Tuesday, November 23rd, 2010LONDON: A gap in the Thai penal code is fuelling “an environment of impunity” on the streets of Bangkok and leaving distributors of child pornography free to operate without fear of apprehension, rights groups say.
“The absence of a specific law against child pornography has concrete consequences for the protection of children,” said Eleonore Dziurzynski, public [...]
The Standards
Wednesday, November 3rd, 2010Tiger Tales November-December 2010 The Standards PDF
Bangkok: City of sex, scandal and wannabe expat authors
Tuesday, September 21st, 2010CNNGo September 21, 2010 — “Writing is easy, you just have to be prepared to live with a permanent identity crisis,” says British crime-writer John Burdett, whose credits include “Bangkok 8,” “Bangkok Tattoo” and “Bangkok Haunts.”
“A lot of expat writing on Thailand — fiction and non-fiction — is all about Western, especially male, self-indulgence,” [...]