A lame script, some dodgy acting and a flimsy plot won’t stop Transformers being one of the films of the year. From the cartoon to the highly successful toy line, Transformers have played a starring role in many children’s lives.

I used to live in Southampton he said. Oh yeah? Doing what? I replied. I was training for MI6 he responded. My ears pricked up at this point. MI6? came my query. Yes he confirmed. So you’re a secret agent? was my probing response. He actually said he was a secret agent. I frowned for a moment and asked the …

A new job, a new city, a new home, a new group of neighbours. My landlady, in her late-twenties, is youthful, elegant and married. Her husband lives in Bangkok. Her "sister", who is actually her sister-in-law, is a tall, peculiarly elongated woman who married my landlady’s brother. He, a chubby, bespectacled Thai man, is an agreeable character who is always …

Another day in Thailand, another hit and run, another life lost, another coward that won't be brought to justice. It's tragic that you read so many news reports like this, taken from The Phuket Gazette's website: Lamphun Kotpanna, 27, from Sakhon Nakhon, died last night after her motorbike was hit by a pickup truck on the steep hill near the …

Tonight’s the night that Bangkok’s bloggers will be out in force to put questions to the man who blocked YouTube, Thailand’s Minister for Information and Communication Technology Sitthichai Pookaiyaudom. It might feel like a Bangkok bloggers’ convention in the FCCT tonight, so get down early if you have something on your mind you want to put to Thailand’s most eccentric …

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