While Manchester City may have had their best season for some time, a solitary flag and power-hungry former prime minister could be about to spoil the party.
Firstly, the flag. Someone took a Thai flag with them to Manchester and hung it up at the City of Manchester Stadium. Nothing out of the ordinary there, but [...]

This is based on a very sketchy translation of tomorrow’s edition of Bangkok’s Daily News newspaper. On April 26, suspected insurgents in Yala shot dead a 22-year-old informant and nailed his body to the middle of the road.
The informant, who had been shot in the back of the neck with a 9mm pistol, was dragged [...]

NOTE: Should work fine in all browsers. Tested in FF, IE6 and 7, Safari and Opera.
OK, I’m going to let you in on the project I’ve been working on for the past couple of week’s It’s a list of the top 100 Thailand blogs. I spent a long time compiling this list, searching for active [...]

Have you ever been in the cinema when the Thai national anthem plays and you’ve seen someone not stand up? I have, a couple of times — and it was Thai people, not foreigners. I’ve also seen people not stop in the street or at the BTS station when the anthem has played.
There are some [...]

I’ve been writing about immigrant workers a lot recently. It’s not that I feel some sort of satisfaction by criticizing the police or the government, but I think it’s important to highlight the hypocrisy of the government’s recent attempts to curb the flow of illegal Burmese laborer entering Thailand.
The 54 Burmese migrants who died in [...]

I first heard about this story a couple of weeks ago. You may have seen it covered by Kom Chad Luek or on Channel 3.
A guy in Phen district, Udon Thani, named Sathian Khenkutrang married his pet python because he believes that the two were lovers in a past life. Sathien was, apparently, a bodyguard [...]

As some of you have noticed, I have opened up a couple of channels for advertising on this blog. First of all, why would you advertise on this blog? Well, at the moment, the blog has:

A Page Rank of 5
An Alexa rank of 143,234
More than 600 posts
About 700 pages indexed in Google
More than 250 RSS [...]

Despite being the dullest band on the planet, the Stereophonics have an unusually large following in Thailand. The Welsh trio will be in Bangkok this Saturday. If that isn’t enough to overwhelm you, they will be playing on a boat.
Not only is the event free, but Modern Dog will be supporting. The frustrating thing about [...]

I think Jodie Marsh is even more loathsome than Paris Hilton. As if faking a wedding as part of a massive, televised publicity stunt weren’t bad enough, the 29-year-old tramp decided to enhance her already-full bust by getting her breasts supersized to double-Gs.
Jodie told The Sun, “I said to the surgeon, ‘I want them [...]

From a credible source whom I won’t name:
There are 14 children, currently in custody in Thailand who witnessed the deaths of their parents in that container.
I don’t think I have read a single news story with information about the number of children Thai police have in custody.

Bedwyr is probably the most active commenter on this blog. He is one of my favorite commenters to read because he usually says some offbeat stuff that incites discussion. In the absence of my beloved Sooksiam, there haven’t been many arguments in the comments recently… until now. Just yesterday, a new commenter, Gonzobrains, joined the [...]

Could someone with the Firefox web developer app take a look at my style sheet and help me figure out what I need to change in order to have a line break between each paragraph in a blockquote? Take a look at my newest post to see a blockquote. I want spaces between those paragraphs. [...]

It has taken the death of 54 Burmese migrants to provoke the government to redraft a law prohibiting human trafficking. The way the law is set up at the moment, the Prevention and Suppression of Human Trafficking Act is ineffective.
The National Operation Center on Human Trafficking is part of the Ministry of Social Development and [...]

I’ve just spent the past couple of hours looking through about 300 Thai blogs – I’ll tell you why later. Out of about 300 blogs, more than 200 are dead, left by their owners to gather dust. Almost all of the dead blogs end with a post apologizing to the world that the blog is [...]