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Kill The Poor

September 5, 2012 – 5:36 pm

Economists tout Thailand as a success story of economic development with poverty levels drastically dropping over the past two decades, however the division of justice between rich and poor was sadly marked by a fatal accident in Bangkok, in which an heir to the Red Bull energy drink fortune purportedly killed a policeman with his […]

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Speeding on the Bangkok Motorway

August 3, 2012 – 3:16 am

Before my arrest for copyright infringement by the Thai Cyber-Cime Police I owned a Toyota Altis 1.8, the poor man’s BMW, although my Thai friends referred to the car as a souped-up cab, since the Altis 1.6s. On drives from Pattaya to Chai-nat I avoided driving through Bangkok to avoid the predatory cops on the […]

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Gra-nam Gra-nam Gra-nam

January 19, 2012 – 9:41 am

Last week the Thai police arrested a suspect purportedly planning to bomb the Bangkok Habad center and Khao San restaurants popular with Americans and Israelis. The US embassy issued a heightened alert on its website. January 13, 2012 This message alerts U.S. citizens in Thailand that foreign terrorists may be currently looking to conduct attacks […]

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25 Hours to JFK

May 13, 2011 – 4:24 am

My travel time from Sriracha, Thailand to For Greene, Brooklyn was supposed to take 25 hours, but a delay at Narita Airport in Japan has added another 3 hours to the journey. Darkness is falling fast. Gray skies shield the Tarmac from the sun. I have no idea what is the temperature since the terminal […]

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Incommunicado

January 24, 2011 – 8:12 pm

Back at the end of the last century there was a short time when the world was devoid of cell phones and computers. Communications between distant countries was a chore. While in Bangkok I would hire a tuk-tuk for the short trip from the Malaysia Hotel to the Bangkok GPO on Charoen Krung Road. The […]

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