Poor old Rambo. Not only is he a full-time hero at 61 years old, but he received death threats while in action in the highly volatile Thai-Burmese border.
Sylvester Stallone has been telling reporters that on the set of his latest franchise-revival, he was met with some animosity from the locals, which is hardly surprising given [...]

“Are you a ladyboy?”
Have you ever been asked that old chestnut? Luckily, nobody has ever queries my gender, but then, I don’t happen to be a pretty Thai girl.
Picture the scene: You’re a Thai girl, out with your friends, drinking, dancing, enjoying yourself, when two drunk farang tourists approach you and start talking to you. [...]

Ever considered ingesting mosquito repellent? Probably not, but that’s exactly what youths in Southern Thailand are doing in the latest bizarre drug craze to sweep the region. Krathom leaves are a prohibited indigenous plant that people often use as a mild narcotic. There are krathom busts almost every week in Southern Thailand.
Some bright spark came [...]

I finally have a reason to enjoy nightlife in Phuket. Club Lime on the beach road in Patong will host two drum ’n’ bass nights a month on the second and fourth Wednesdays. The night is called Bass Load and the first event is October 10 with guest DJ T-Base. On October 24 the guest [...]

I’m not keen on all these music reunions. A piece of me died when Take That and The Spice Girls reformed, but aside from terrible pop music, the recent trend of legends of music – The Who, The Stooges, Led Zeppelin – getting back together begs the question, “Why?” Some things are best left untouched [...]

We had a call at work today from a Norwegian man who wanted to pass on this message:
In support of our incredibly brave friends in Burma: May all the people around the world wear a red shirt on Friday, September 28.
This message has been spreading by SMS across Phuket, but it’s also being passed on [...]

The world is watching Burma as security forces kill demonstrators and drag away scores of Buddhist monks in Rangoon while some 10,000 people march in protest of the country’s military dictatorship.

At least five people have been reported dead so far, with hundreds arrested. People are being beaten to death amid some of the most chaotic [...]

I was looking around my room today when I noticed an unusual amount of plastic bags. I don’t know where they came from or how they got here, but they are just hanging out making a nuisance of themselves. It’s impossible to go a day in Thailand without acquiring at least half a dozen plastic [...]

I got the new Ian Brown album, The World is Yours, today and was really excited to listen to it. It’s awful though. I don’t know why he bothers churning out these ludicrous albums any more. This is his fifth solo album since the split of The Stone Roses, and it’s just ugly. Too many [...]

Norwegian national Simen Sparra Knudsen was stabbed to death early Sunday morning in Phuket near the Kata-Karon lookout. The details of the attack are sketchy at the moment, but from what I’ve seen it doesn’t look like a grudge killing. There’s speculation that Simen had been in a fight prior to the stabbing, but this [...]

I watched the movie The Brave One over the weekend, and I can’t help but feel that there was so much wrong with it, which is a real shame because Jodi Foster’s portrayal of Erica Bain was inspiring. It was really gritty, but the movie was ridiculous.
How is it possible for one woman to witness [...]

I was with a friend walking through Central Festival mall in Phuket today when we walked past a woman who was sat down rocking back and forth, shaking her head violently. She was being attended to by another woman who was holding an apple. I thought nothing of it and kept on walking, but my [...]

Terrible news for beer lovers in Thailand: Plans to sell Beer Lao throughout Thailand have been put on hold… until 2011. That’s four years we’ll have to wait before we can drink one of my favorite beers when we please.
Lao Brewery had planned to expand its business in Southern Laos with the aim of the [...]

I woke up this morning and found news of a government scandal over on Bangkok Pundit’s blog. A quick hop over to Nation confirms it:
Two members of the Surayud Cabinet have offered to quit after it was found they held stakes in companies in excess of the 5 per cent allowed under the graft law [...]