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Speeding on the Bangkok Motorway

May 5, 2008 – 8:41 pm

I have a Toyota Altis 1.8. The poor man’s BMW, although my Thai relative refer to the car as a souped-up taxi cab. Normally I drive from Pattaya to Chai-Nat detouring onto Route 7 to avoid the predatory cops on the elevated motorway, although sometimes when the traffic is light I zoom through Bangkok to […]

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Olympic Torch in Bangkok

April 18, 2008 – 7:59 am

Grim Chinese flame protectors escorted the Olympic flame off a quasi-military aircraft after landing in Don Muang Airport. Some 30 Thai-Chinese supporters greeted its arrival in the early morning darkness of the closed airport. None of them waved Thai flags. A motorcade sped to an unannounced Bangkok Hotel, where it will be guarded by a […]

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Olympic Torch Arrives In Thailand April 18

March 25, 2008 – 9:30 pm

This week the Olympic torch for the 2008 Beijing Games was lit in Olympia, Greece. Several pro-Tibetan demonstrators disrupted the Chinese spokesman’s celebratory speech. Police bundled away the two Tibetan and its procession ran through the ancient Greek town without incident, until more protests against the 60 years of Chinese repression. Greek police physically restrained […]

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Old Bikes in Bangkok

February 2, 2008 – 11:52 pm

Chirawat Tancharoen loves collecting old bicycles and their parts. He has several hundred bicycles and opened his own business — buying, repairing and selling old bicycles. His bicycle shop in an alley on Ratchada road is a centre of the bicycle collector’s community. From an individual collector, his passion for old bicycles saw him become […]

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Bangkok Happiness Down

July 29, 2007 – 10:26 pm

Bangkok Happiness Index has plummeted to 3.71 in comparison to 5.02 for national average. The present political unrest is causing stress, as families argue opposing views. My father would tell them. “Don’t watch the news. Never has anything good on it. That stuff makes you crazy.” What makes a Bangkok man happy? A bottle of Johnny Walker Black, his […]

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