Category Archives: Bangkok

Hopewell Project 2

July 14, 2009 – 11:13 pm

The Airtrain to Suvarnabhumi Airport was scheduled to open this year. The operators have released another opening date of sometime in the 2nd quarter of next year. Siemens the system co-engineers say that they have tested the train several times and airport employees were given a free ride on Tuesday, however the 150 baht express […]

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Lightning Strikes in Bangkok

April 17, 2009 – 5:51 pm

Songkran signals the approach of the rainy season. it’s still hot and the weather can produce epic lightning storms. My girlfriends always insisted on shutting off every electrical device in the house other than the fans. They would shiver in fear of a lightning strike. Everyone had someone who had died out in the rice […]

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Out of Jail – Harry Nicolaides

April 2, 2009 – 4:23 pm

Harry Nicolaides was freed from prison last month after a long incarceration for defaming the royal family. He has been declared persona non grata in Thailand and now lives in his native Australia. THE MONTHLY has published an account of his time in prison. Life in a Bangkok Prison On the night of 31 August […]

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Soi Nana Twins

February 26, 2009 – 2:46 pm

The Old Roue lives on Soi 4. His rooftop apartment overlooks the busiest street in Bangkok. More money turns hands in a single dy between go-go girls and fat farangs than the NYSE. Hard cash. On Wall Street no one shows real money. On Soi 4 only cash is king no matter how close you […]

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Gold Frenzy in reverse

February 1, 2009 – 9:22 am

Times are tough everywhere and people are hard up for money. Nowhere more obviously than in Bangkok’s Chinatown where crowds surged into the gold shops after the Chinese New Year to exchange their bahts of gold for paper baht. Gold might be beautiful, but you can’t eat it. Gold merchants soon ran out of hard […]

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