Thailand Webzine, Bangkok Pattaya Thailand
Gas prices were doubled in Burma. A few hundred brave souls protested on the streets of Yangoon. The army did nothing. Emboldened buddhist monks spoke out against the decrepit regime. Some dared to march in the street. Soon it was thousands. SLORC couldn’t tolerate open manifestation of defiance and gave orders to the soldiers to shoot […]
After a month’s absence from Pattaya’s galaxy of go-gos Heaven Above has re-opened thoroughly renovated for the upcoming season. The closure was due to the local police’s moral strictures on nudity and if anyone know how to identify sin, it’s the boys in brown. This is no longer your father’s Pattaya.
Last night Heaven was packed […]
Years ago a police commissioner visited Pattaya to officially survey the night life. A Bangkok reporter asked, “What are your views on prostituition in Pattaya?”
“Prostituition?” The top copper was wearing sunglasses on Walking Street. “All I see are young people having fun.”
His response harvested hearty chuckles from longtime Pattaya residents, but nothing like the chortles from a Columbia University audience after the […]
Ramadan is the holy fast month for Muslims. The word comes from Arabic for intense heat, scorched ground, and shortness of rations. Summer in the desert. During this period Muslims refrain from eating or sexual intercourse from sunrise to sunset and are also are urged to desist from the more venal weakness of human nature […]
The NY Times published a list of why Americans die. The leading causes of fatality come as no surprise; heart disease, cancer, stroke, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, diabetes and Alzheimer’s disease, in that order. Almost all of them are related to either environment, bad food, obsesity, or a cocktail of the three. You are what you eat.
However westerners […]
