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Bad times got worse for the Thaksins who announced this week that their 32 years of marriage will terminate in divorce. Friends were shocked when the former PM said at a Hong Kong dinner, “We divorced in order to make everybody feel comfortable.”
His wife was not invited to this dinner.
She was not the last to […]

Loi Krathong has long been Thailand’s most beautiful festival.
Not anymore in Pattaya.
Few girls and women were dressed in the traditional costume. The police banned fireworks. Their marine patrols gathered the krathong offerings less than 20 meters from shore. No one was allowed to light a fire balloon, perhaps the most exotic image to grace a […]

November 12 is Loy Krathong.
Pattaya City is gearing up for the annual water festival by conducting street sweeps of undesirables. The police are on the look-out for miscreants in order to clean up the coastal city’s image for the traditional festival. Last year they banned fireworks and instituted shore patrols to prevent any krathongs or […]

Harry Nicolaides wrote VERISIMILITUDE in 2005. This novel based on his life in Thailand sold 42 copies. Its lack of success did not prevent the Thai police from charging the Australian author with the charge of lese-majeste upon his re-entry to the country this summer. His crime; writing what any fool knows you don’t write […]

Last night riding home on my motorcycle, I suppressed a shiver. Fah nao or the cold season had arrived like clockwork.
Not that we should expect snow.
The mountains in the North drop to 3C above Zero at worst and the season ends in February, but for the next two months Thais will be bundling up like […]