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Thai Prime Minister Samak Sundaravej stunned Myammar critics by announcing that the pariah nation was a peaceful nation led by a good Buddhist who prayed every morning.

“The general view of this country has always been one-sided, but there are two sides to a coin,” said Samak, who was in Burma to finalize construction contracts […]

Riots on the Roof of the World. Lhasa on fire. Chinese shops burned by Tibetans. Troops on the Streets of the Tibetan capitol. 49 years since the last uprising. The year of the Chinese Olympics and the Reds can’t repress the Tibetans without earning the condemnation of the world.

Free Tibet.
Don’t buy anything Chinese.
In this world […]

I can’t recall where I found this article. My apologies to the writer.

It contains a good explanation as to why Pattaya is not in Siam but Thailand. One rationale omitted from this article is that the military-backed government was scared Burma might invade Siam and sent new maps to Rangoon with Thailand instead of Siam. […]

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 a […]

The flight time between Bangkok and the Chinese capitol is about 6 hours. My friend Jocko Weyland lives in Beijing. I phoned him five minutes ago. He was skating on a frozen lake with a Frenchwoman. It almost sounded romatic.

The only ice in Pattaya are the cubes in my Chang beer. The early evening temperature […]

Yesterday the Asian stock markets responded to President Bush’s tepid salvation plan for the US economy with a feverish sell-off of exposed positions. The malaise later spread to the London exchange, which suffered the largest drop in value since 9/11. The Dow Jones escaped the plunge thanks to a bank holiday for Martin Luther King, but Asian investors […]

Goddesses have been worshipped since time immemorial. My personal devotion to models, movie actresses, and singers slipped into apostasy after having affairs with celestial creatures. Even their breathless beauty was subject to the ravages of bad lighting and a rough night ie the morning after with make-up smeared across their face like a giant bug […]

Detroit is understandably the world’s least sexy city. Murder, rust factories, and the Pistons. Nothing about Motor City says ’sexy’ other than the MC5 and Iggy. But Detroit has a lot of competition from Asia, as indicated by the Global Sexual Wellbeing Survey released at the World Congress on Sexual Health in Sydney.

Three cities in Asia topped […]