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Oh what a day for tennis

Written by The Lost Boy in July 1st, 2008  
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Posted in: People     
Not only did Andy Murray make a remarkable comeback from two sets down to claim victory over Frenchman Richard Gasquet, but Thailand's own Wimbledon hope, Tamarine Tanasugarn, upset world No. 2 Jelena Jankovic to make it through to the quarter-finals. Making the achievement even more remarkable is that she did

Smaller retailers are doomed — or are they?

Written by The Lost Boy in June 30th, 2008  
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Posted in: Life in Thailand     
It appears as if some of the larger retailers in Thailand are actually taking positive steps in the battle to rid the country of the excessive number of plastic bags. In Phuket at least, Central Festival, Tesco, Big C, Robinson and a bunch of hotels will on July 9

Outsourcing media work

Written by The Lost Boy in June 30th, 2008  
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Posted in: Life in Thailand     
Outsourcing work to other countries is nothing new – heck, even I hire people to do odd jobs for me – but when it comes to journalism, you don’t expect a newspaper’s reporters to be working from another country. It isn’t just call centers that are hiring staff in India. The

Twitter whore

Written by The Lost Boy in June 30th, 2008  
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Posted in: Tech, the net, blogging     
I think this video pretty much sums up the downside of social media. Twitter, while being a great tool for keeping abreast of what's going on in the world, often descends into farce when people use it mindlessly. Most of us are guilty of self-indulgence with social media from time

The trusty British media

Written by The Lost Boy in June 27th, 2008  
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Posted in: Bizarre     
From the Daily Mail: In articles published on 23 and 26 May 2008, we gave the impression that Mr Gest had contracted a sexually transmitted infection and alleged that he had Liza Minnelli’s dog killed without her knowledge. This was wrong. David Gest has never had a sexually transmitted infection and did

More than 40 killer whales beach themselves off Phuket

Written by The Lost Boy in June 27th, 2008  
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Posted in: Bizarre     
Yesterday evening, more than 40 killer whales reportedly beached themselves on the small island Koh Racha, off the south coast of Phuket. One of them died apparently. Villagers informed the authorities at about 6 pm last night. (KomChadLuek) I've never heard of such an event occurring around Phuket. Hopefully there will

The oddness of Pastrygate

Written by The Lost Boy in June 27th, 2008  
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Posted in: Thaksin     
Pastrygate has been sharing the limelight with the censure debate. The whole debacle raises many issues and is one of the oddest stories of the year so far. Three of Thaksin’s lawyers were jailed on Wednesday for six months for trying to give a court official 2 million baht contained

Quick note

Written by The Lost Boy in June 25th, 2008  
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Posted in: The Boy     
To everyone who responded to my call for guest posts on other blogs: I haven't forgotten about you, but I just need a bit of time to actually write the posts. I'm hoping to get them all out by the end of this week. So please bear with me for

Girl at heart

Written by The Lost Boy in June 25th, 2008  
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Posted in: People     
After the discussion that went on here with regards to katoey toilets at a Thai school and the subsequent talk over at Roger's blog, I asked someone whose opinion is perhaps a little more in touch with the issue than any of ours. This post was written by Nong Duu

New Thai music to listen to

Written by The Lost Boy in June 23rd, 2008  
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Posted in: Music     
I make a habit of buying as much Thai music as I can. The low cost of CDs means that I can buy a few every week and not really notice the expenditure. There’s also a weird satisfaction in confusing store cashiers, who seem to find it hilarious that a

Twiterring the ‘coup’

Written by The Lost Boy in June 20th, 2008  
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Posted in: The Boy     
If you want follow everything that is going on in Bangkok now, in real time, log on to Twitter and follow: Bangkok Pundit Dan Luke and me, although I'm not actually there at the moment. This is the power of social media.

Are we waiting for another coup?

Written by The Lost Boy in June 20th, 2008  
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Posted in: Coup and aftermath     
The People's Alliance for Democracy (PAD) vowed to surround the nation's highest office today as planned, while state-enterprise labour unions said thousands of members would join the protest. (Nation) While I don’t think this has yet reached the level of a coup, is it only a matter of time? What

Thailand’s toilets for transvestites

Written by The Lost Boy in June 18th, 2008  
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Posted in: Bizarre     
It came to light last week that the Kampang School in Northeastern Thailand has introduced “transvestite toilets” for male students who choose to dress as females. The story has been picked up by several major news agencies, including AP and the Guardian. There are reportedly 200 cross-dressing male students at

Calling all Thailand bloggers

Written by The Lost Boy in June 16th, 2008  
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Posted in: Tech, the net, blogging     
All right. I need a favor. I know this is a bit unorthodox, but I'm looking for bloggers who will let me guest post on their blogs. If you own a blog that is related to Thailand (any blog, no matter how big or small), I want to write a
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