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Monday, April 20th, 2009
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Saturday, April 11th, 2009
All over the Thai media in recent times has been the colored shirt political rivalries infesting the Siamese political and public arenas. Initially headlined by the pro (current) government yellow shirts, known formerly as PAD (Peoples Alliance for Democracy), and their bitter opposition, pro ex-Thaksin-government red shirted rivals, or PAAD (Peoples Alliance Against Dictatorship).
As world [...]
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Wednesday, March 12th, 2008
Doing a google search with the keywords, ‘Thailand Blog,’ the Siamerican was quite disappointed to find a hit neither for this web log nor the Siamerican in any of the top 100 results. Being that there were dozens upon dozens of irrelevant sites that ranked high, that weren’t actually Thailand blogs, it is clearly [...]
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Thursday, February 28th, 2008
The latest breaking news in Thailand, Southeast Asia, and even the globe for that matter is regarding Thailand’s longest reigning elected leader, Thaksin Shinawatra. The disposed prime minister turned English football team owner-manager has finally stepped onto Thai soil after being away in a self imposed exile in the USA, England, and China [...]
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Wednesday, November 7th, 2007
One of the primary schools I am teaching at (Wat Kan Jan Jarern) has a little mushroom house โรงเรือนเพาะเห็ด that the students grow and sell oyster เห็ดนางฟ้า and white fungi เห็ดหูหนู mushrooms. I had a look inside and took 5 pics with my mobile phone before my bat ran out.
Posted in Culture and Customs, Economics and Finance, Food, Eating, & Dining, Teaching in Thailand, Thailand Locations, Thailand living | 6 Comments »
Monday, October 1st, 2007
Well…at least I am rich in a parallel world. Life moves on.
Several nights ago, I had a dream that I somehow inherited a large sum of money and was trying to decide how much to give to the temple schools that I teach at in Samut Songkhram. Upon waking up, I was contemplating a possible [...]
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Sunday, August 12th, 2007
Mr. Thaksin Shinawatra, Thailand’s ousted premiere has continued to make the news over the preceding months regarding his families latest woes and battle with the Assets Examination Committee (AEC), who froze a big bulk of Thailand’s richest family’s Thailand funds (trust me, it’s more than 99 percent of this blog’s readers will ever dream of [...]
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Friday, August 10th, 2007
Thailand Baht Crisis? I don’t get too passionate when reading economic speculation news, so I’m not one to speculate much of what and how economic speculators are speculating about potential speculations of speculating further of how to go about speculating…but this supposed ‘baht crisis’ isn’t a crisis for everyone, partifularly for me, someone whose income [...]
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