MangoZeen

Nothing says you’re screwed in a foreign country more than getting arrested by the police, although in Thailand if you have money then you’re luckier than most, because you can pay your way out of jail.

Bail.
But nothing says you’re fucked more than getting send to prison and for a good blog of this subject go […]

Twenty years ago the cell phone weighed over a kilo and looked like it could survive a nuclear bomb.

Over the years its ancestors have shrunk to pocket size and people converse anywhere at anytime with anyone. The only time a Thai won’t answer a call in a movie theater is during the national anthem.
But there […]

The Economist led into the story about the Thai junta retiring to the barracks With the headline.

GOOD RIDDANCE.
Thai newspapers have been more decorous with their fare-wells.
Accordingly the Thai people said almost nothing about the military clique fading away after the election. Government controls the media. People think what they are told by the TV. Thais […]

I got this email from my friend Paul Brissman’s Facebook
Thanks to KK New York
When girls don’t put out!!
This was written by a guy … it’s pretty damn smart.

Girls — Please have a sense of humor! I never quite figured out why the sexual urge of men and women differ so much. And I never have […]

I read this interview on http://www.worldpress.org/Asia/3051.cfm from www.2bangkok.com
Ona trip to laos in 1997 I was amazed by the widespread deforestation. The country had been denuded of trees. The loggers were political prisoners like Bounsang Khamkeo. The timber produce chopsticks in Japan and toilet paper for the rest of the world.

The writer survived seven years in the secret jungle prisons of […]