The indomitable Bangkok Recorder webzine has mashed up Google map with Bangkok’s finest attractions. Now this is what I call service!
http://bangkokrecorder.com/google-map/bangkok-map.html
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Across their dream
2004
06.23
06.23
Prachakhom Lunachai’s novel Khon Kham Fan (Across their dream) (Bangkok: Man of Letters, 2000) smashes quite a few of the stereotypes so lovingly cultivated by the Tourism Authority of Thailand. Prachakhom’s world is filled with characters that do not live in Amazing Thailand or the Land of the Smiles, but merely survive in the realm of the sea.
The first four chapters of the Thai original — and a comprehensive précis of the rest of the book — have been translated by Marcel Barang who has dedicated himself to bringing less-well-known Thai authors to Western readers. A full list of his translation works is available.
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Missionaries = Destruction
2004
05.18
05.18
The Asia Times has highlighted a serious development underway in Thailand and the rest of mainland Southeast Asia: the conversion “heathen” tribes to Christianity.
It seems many of these missionaries are agents for Christian fundamentalist groups, especially from the US, who are competing to expand by converting more people, which means they can garner more donations and hence convert more people
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Accounts of sex abuse and fraud are widespread, as are the documented cases of “missionaries
This is an important article to study!
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Bangkok subway
2004
04.23
04.23
Bangkok’s mass transport system is slowly getting its act together: the subway system is on a test run, and the excellent 2Bangkok.com site has the pictures.