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Connecting With the People

Posted on August 23, 2009
Samak’s weekly show was popular and set the news agenda. However, Abhisit’s weekly show is not as popular . PAD’s Sarocha has opined on why: That’s exactly what the Prime Minister’s Sunday morning show is experiencing. Does Abhisit have anything important to say? Yes. Does he … Read full story >>>

Written by: Bangkok Pundit.

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Can Oxfam Really Help Thailand’s Rural Poor?

Posted on August 21, 2009
Home to a large family, this house in our Surin village is quite typical around here. Once their modest rice harvest is threshed, many of them will leave to find work in the cities as there’s no livelihood for them here during the long dry season. An old hunter gatherer enjoys … Read full story >>>
Written by: Thai Girl.

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Mooncakes

Posted on August 26, 2009
It is Mooncake season – the time of the year (Autumn, around about the time of the ninth lunar month) when people of Chinese origin remember their ancestors and everyone has a chance to eat the cakes. Here’s a recipe for making them I worked… Read full story >>>

Written by: John Walsh.

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The Thai Ice Cream Man Cometh

Posted on August 25, 2009
As every year passes in the West new innovations and changes in how people go about their daily lives chip away at the old guard little by little. There was a time when we took wax discs and put them on a spinning turn table and then placed an … Read full story >>>
Written by: Talen.

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Supinya Klangnarong, Graceful Voice Of Freedom

Posted on August 25, 2009
She’s not only a media rights advocate. She’s charmingly attractive, highly intelligent, a true Thai power woman - and many people’s hero, against her will: Supinya Klangnarong, who rose to fame when she got sued by former prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra’s family empire Shin . A hero against her… Read full story >>>
Written by: BangkokDan.

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Interviewing Successful Thai Language Learners: Glenn Slayden

Posted on August 25, 2009
Interviewing Successful Thai Language Learners… Name: Glenn Slayden Nationality: American Age range: 40-50 Sex: Male Location: Seattle, WA Profession: Author of www.thai-language.com Thai level: Intermediate Website: www.thai-language.com Do you speak more street Thai, Issan Thai, or professional Thai? Tourist Thai … Read full story >>>
Written by: Catherine Wentworth.

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‘Evil from the gates of hell’ - The Thai assassination of a Canadian husband

Posted on August 27, 2009
From Andrew Drummond, Bangkok, Thai wife, her lover, and hired gun jailed for life for murdering Canadian husband A Thai court today jailed for life a Thai wife, her lover, and a professional hit man for the avaricious murder of her Canadian… Read full story >>>
Written by: Andrew Drummond.

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Paradorn Srichaphan launches herbal Viagra

Posted on August 29, 2009
Thai tennis superstar Paradorn Srichaphan has launched a new product billed as a natural alternative to Viagra. Yes, he uses it - twice a week. No, it doesn’t mean his two-year marriage to former Miss Universe Natalie Glebova from Canada is faltering. “If you ask me, ‘Paradorn, do you need to use … Read full story >>>
Written by: Sunny.

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