The big story in Phuket at the moment is about Annice Smoel, a 36-year-old Aussie mum of three who was arrested for allegedly stealing a bar mat from the Aussie Bar in Patong. She spent two nights in prison and has been released on bail while her passport is in the hands of the cops. The beer mats in question …

I think this is fantastic. It finally came out on a white label last month, so maybe it will get a full release at some point. It's a drum n bass remix and it works so well because the vocal is given such prominence. The first time I heard this was a few months back and I was very excited.

I saw something fantastic today. I was at an all-day workshop in Comoro. I’d been looking forward to this workshop because it was about disaster-risk management and those kinds of things. Simple pleasures, you see. This was an important workshop. A number of the world’s largest non-governmental organizations (NGO) spoke and the whole shebang was opened by the vice-prime minister. …

In an unprecedented move, the government of Timor-Leste became the first in the world this week to unveil its plans to ban all acronyms in the country. The announcement was made at a meeting with the press held at Hotel Timor on Monday. The move comes hot on the heels of the Social Network Against Redundant Forms (SNARF) declaring that …

I wrote this morning that the Asean summit is due to be held in Phuket on June 13 and 14. What I had forgotten is that the Phuket Film Fest is slated for June 4 to 11. What with the possibility of the army pretty much running the security show during the Asean summit in Phuket, there's a wave of …

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