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The assassination of Benazir Bhutto was not about politics. It’s all about suppression of women. There I’ve said it, the nasty mean ugly...

When the tsunami struck southern Thailand three years ago to this day, Christian Thais asked me, “Is this it, the Apocalypse?” That’s wh...

The plane glides down to the runway over images of grid-work houses and corporate-scheme commercial areas. This is California . America !...

I have old-hand friends in Thailand whose first introduction to Thais and Thai culture was along the canals in Amsterdam . For me, though,...

Thailand is a superstitious place. You might assume that would be in direct proportion to its percentage of rural populace, but that’s no...

That Darwin guy is not making things any easier for any of us. No, I’m not talking about Charles, or even Grandpa Erasmus, but that guy w...

I doubt that anybody was too surprised when the tanks rolled through the streets of Bangkok last year except perhaps Doctor Taksin himself,...

You’ve all seen the ads directed at single white males: “Get your Asian wife, your Thai darling, your Philippine dream girl, your Chinese ...

Farang: 1) person of European extraction, 2. anything of European extraction, 3. guava. So here in Thailand potatoes are man farang, white...

The first time I went to Cambodia , some eight or nine years ago, it was pretty sad. The country was still recovering from the years of Po...