Monthly Archives: April 2008

200,000 Tonnes Of Rice Vanish Overnight

Thailand had stockpiled nearly 2.1 million tonnes of rice against any shortcomings in future rice harvests, however Thai authorities were at a loss to explain how a 10% of the supply vanished without a trace from government warehouses. With fragrant rice selling at 135 baht a kilo, this loss has been calculated at 3.2 billion […]

Conflicting POV’s About Bangkok Torch Protestors

Thailand’s top copper popped off a warning to any foreigners planning on disrupting tomorrow’s torch run through Bangkok with immediate deportation with the added punishment of permanent blacklist running contrary to the Foreign Minister’s no one will be exiled from the Land of Smiles for demonstrations against the Celestial Kingdom’s torch relay from the Plaza […]

From Worst to Very Worst

No one ever said life was fair and a Thai court proved this axiom to the max by sentencing 50 Burmese survivors of the Ranong death truck to two-months in prison before deportation to their impoverished nation. The 14 child immigrants have already been repatriated out of Thailand. The lorry driver is still on the […]

ANAMORPH 2007 movie

My flight from Bangkok to Taipei to Anchorage to JFK lasted through a very long Sunday. Total time – 37 hours and according my body have been suffering a severe case of narcolepsy. Two evenings ago Willem Dafoe extended an invitation to a screening of ANAMORPH by HS Miller. “I’m playing a cop.” “You get […]

Olympic Torch in Bangkok

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 […]