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Million Baht dinner ala Bangkok

February 7, 2007 – 1:58 am

This weekend Bangkok’s Dome restaurant atop State Tower will be the setting for one of the most luxurious dinners in recent history. Places for the 11-course banquet can be had for a million baht or $29,000 and so far 15 guests have reserved a seat at the table. Six international chefs from around the world will be preparing […]

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Spanish Fly Spray banned in Bangkok

September 25, 2006 – 5:02 am

In the 1950s and 1960s and probably to present times teenage boys and grown men have searched for Spanish Fly in order to artificially transform their girlfriends into a sexual frenzy bordering on Beatlemania. No one knew what it was or where to find it, but everyone had heard that a cheerleader had been dosed […]

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Coup d’Etat in Bangkok

September 21, 2006 – 11:48 am

On Wednesday morning I woke at 6am for a visa run to the Cambodian border. My wife and daughter slept blissfully, while I trundled into the living room. Sitting on the sofa, I turned on the TV. BBC News. 6am. Lead story. COUP IN THAILAND. Same for Fox News and CNN. Thai TV was showing […]

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