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With tourism down dramatically many Thai companies are trying new advertising to combat the the ever growing slump they are seeing in their bottom line. It’s not enough that the world wide economic situation is keeping tourists away, Thailand can’t help itself when it comes to making even dedicated … Read full story >>>

Picture Courtesy Reuters Over the weekend Miss International Queen 2009 was Crowned in Pattaya, Thailand. You might think that that isn’t such a big deal, beauty contests take place all the time. Well, this beauty contest is a little different as all of the beautiful female contestants are actually male. This … Read full story >>>

After one of the longest extradition battles in the history of Canada, fugitive Thai banker Rakesh Saxena recently arrived back home, in a Thai prison cell that is. A spokesman for Thailand’s attorney general said Saxena, an Indian national and a little man who was a big pest , has over 20 cases pending against… Read full story >>>

Tomorrow in Australia is a huge race day in the home of racing, actually one of the best places in Australia, Melbourne. The Melbourne Cup has a rich history and is day when many one day punters come out for a flutter and try and win Australia’s most famous race. If you have… Read full story >>>

Even ThaiCrisis has been fooled ! I use the infamous word “Green Shoots” after the first publication of the total amount of exports for september. Abhisit was proud to pronounce the “R” word. Recession ? Amid an ocean of artificial pleasures (and potent Lala drugs) during the Asean Meeting, it was… Read full story >>>

Tulsie in The Nation:But while I can laugh it away, the 18-year jail sentence handed down to Daranee Chancherngsilapakul (Da Torpedo) left me speechless….We have come a very long way, but obviously the likes of Jakrapob and Da Torpedo remain unsatisfied. Yet if they are guilty… Read full story >>>

Westerners are usually much larger than their Thai counterparts and that’s just a fact of life. Unfortunately my Thai counterpart enjoy’s that fact way too much and as often as she can. I’m not a small man by any means but I’m not nearly as large as she would have you believe when she put’s… Read full story >>>

Have already blogged on Da Torpedo/Daranee’s jailing for 18 years on lese majeste charges. Pravit Rojanaphruk, normally of The Nation,* has an article for Prachatai:Again, if Daranee, eventually requested and received a royal pardon,then it would be okay, right? Well, she would still have been in jailfor a year… Read full story >>>

Since my first trip to Thailand I have never ceased to be amazed when I go to Pattaya. A thriving beach town that has everything on offer at every turn. Aside from all the beautiful Thai women and the immense choice when it comes to entertaining oneself… Read full story >>>

Well, I guess I’m finally getting somewhere with this. You know more about my past than I like and I have yet to tell you about my present or future. Once you get through all the various cliché’s, and you do have to get through those cliché’s when you are … Read full story >>>

A little while ago I got an e-mail from Catherine over at WomenLearningThai.com and she would be the impetus for this series of posts. Catherine wrote: There are way too many cliché’s going around about expat men and Thai women. I’m guilty… Read full story >>>

A Myanmar newspaper says authorities have arrested an American man who allegedly swam across a lake and snuck into the lakeside home of detained opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi. The Myanma Ahlin newspaper says in its Thursday edition that police fished the man out of Yangon’s Inya … Read full story >>>