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Thaksin is meandering about Beijing this afternoon, contemplating the old Clash quandary “do I stay or do I go’ as the Thai courts announced Sept 16 as his date to face charges involving corrupt Burma business associates.
Are there any other kind?
Drugs, oil, timber, gems and repression fund SLORC and the USA has stepped into the […]

Ex-PM Thaksin’s legal advisers must be telling him to take an extended vacation away from his native land, for the Thai criminal court has found his wife, her brother, and secretary guilty of tax evasion charges, despite Ms. Potojam’s sincere protestations that the sold shares were a gift and not a business venture. The court […]

If the greatest compliment is plagiarism, then the Thais are the best complimenters in the world. Fake watches, fake bags, fake love. Fake top 40 bands at beer bars cranking out dinosaur rock for those stuck in the 70s. Copies of your favorite meals. Even the soap operas follow the scripts of DALLAS , but […]

I write for several small publications and getting free-bies is an expected perk of this job, since it pays so little. A month ago the editor of Pattaya Beyond asked me to write a review about gentleman’s Masssage on on Soi 1 3rd Road in North Pattaya. I didn’t mention this assignment to my wife […]

Nut and I flirted a lot at the Buffalo Bar. She was pretty and liked to drink Heineken. These beers seemed to dismantle her decision process when choosing who to accept as date for the night. She’d go with the fat, short, ugly, and tall. Afterwards saying, “We did nothing.”
It’s not easy working at a […]