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Pattaya’s Nongnuch Botanical Garden’s exhibit at this year's Chelsea Flower Show unexpectedly won the prestigious gold medal for their display of ‘Asian Culture & Plants.’
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Singha beer is heavily promoting its newly created Facebook group, ILoveThailand, to an international audience with a competition with Metro , one of London’s most popular free newspapers distributed to commuters, one major campaign. The promotion, which directs Metro reads to Singha’s… Read full story > > > Written by: Jon Russell. Discovered...
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All London flights, including those from Heathrow, will be suspended from noon (1100 GMT) Thursday due to volcanic ash from Iceland that has already caused almost 300 cancellations here, officials said.
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Fresh from winning the first Asia Art Award , Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s short film Phantoms of Nabua will screen as an installation in London starting next month. It’s the first London solo exhibition by Apichatpong, a two-time winner at the Cannes Film Festival and nominee for the 2010 Hugo Boss Prize . Phantoms… Read...
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Derided for many faults when it opened, Suvarnabhumi Airport appears to have won over international travellers, who now rate the Bangkok gateway as among the world’s 10 best airports. Suvarnabhumi took 10th place in the 2010 World Airport Awards rankings, a global survey of 9.8 million passengers by the London-based independent aviation research...
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Joshua Kurlantzick, a fellow for South-East Asia at the Council on Foreign Relations, has an article in the London Review of Books entitled "Red vs Yellow". Would link to it, but well the last two paragraphs talk about a sensitive subject . Kurlantzick's article is very critical of both the establishment and Thaksin. He...
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Joshua Kurlantzick, a fellow for South-East Asia at the Council on Foreign Relations, has an article in the London Review of Books entitled “Red vs Yellow”. Would link to it, but well the last two paragraphs talk about a sensitive subject . Kurlantzick’s article is very critical of both the establishment and …...
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Al Jazeera, unfortunately not carried by Thailand’s monopolist cable TV company TrueVisions – an offspring of Thaksin’s old IBC – recently aired this 24-minutes “Inside Story: Thailand’s Blood Sacrifice” embedded below. Something to sit back and relax a little after those nervous days. Worth a watch. The London School of Economics’ Tim Forsyth...
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Students to guard stars at Olympics OLYMPIC security chief have ruled out using the Army to protect competitors and spectators at the 2012 Games, and instead they will rely on thousands of teenagers taking a 3 hour events safety course.    The move has provoked anger among military figures, who believe Army expertise...
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Exodus of Britons growing ALMOST 400,000 people quit Britain to find a better life abroad last year as the recession took hold.    A total of 395,000 people emigrated from the UK during 2008, a rise of 24 percent compared with the 318,000 who left in 2007 according to the Office of National...
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Matichon reports Chalerm as stating that a source telephoned to tell him that a war room has been set up in London to destroy Thaksin, but it is not the government. They have 3 plans: 1. There will be an incident at Ratchawithi in order to suppress the protestors. 2. Get people to wear...
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Pattaya, – Wednesday 17th February 2010 : – Living in Thailand one would not normally think about furs, but at a recent Pattaya City Expats Club (PCEC) Mr. Tony Heron gave an interesting talk from on his working life in the fur trade. Tony started work as a volunteer at a mink farm...
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A Saudi prince appeared in court Friday charged with murdering a compatriot, said to be an aide, who was found strangled in a top London hotel this week.
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The legitimacy of rulers is expressed and renewed through rites of popular obeisance…But in some parts of the world alongside such rites are others that, at first sight, are baffling: rituals that are used to revile the leader rather than exalt him. In the classic case, among the Swazi of southern Africa, the...
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International hotel chain Holiday Inn is offering a trial human bed-warming service at three hotels in Britain this month. If requested, a willing staff-member at two of the chain's London hotels and one in the northern English city of Manchester will dress in an all-in-one fleece sleeper suit before slipping between the sheets....
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THAILAND will indeed welcome the admirable protection and deterrence provided by Defence International Security Services to augment the work of Royal Thai Police and bring a sense of security to residents previously not available. Defence Security Services, the UK headquarters, is a world-class organisation trained to the highest international standards to provide security at...
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Shanghai's stock market is set for major changes in 2010 that could help close the gap with London and New York as the Chinese city strives to become a global financial centre, analysts say.
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Former Gurkha soldiers from Nepal lost a test case against Britain's Ministry of Defence over pension rights at the High Court in London on Monday.
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Armed officers stormed a plane at London's Heathrow airport as it was about to depart for Dubai and arrested three men on suspicion of making a bomb threat, police said Saturday.
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Iceland's president on Tuesday refused to sign an unpopular bill to compensate Britain and the Netherlands over the failure of Icesave bank, triggering anger in London and The Hague.
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Arsenal staged a dramatic late fightback to reach the FA Cup fourth round with a 2-1 win at London rivals West Ham on Sunday.
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European equities rallied on Tuesday, as London and Frankfurt struck 2009 peaks in thin trade, with investors upbeat before new year holidays and after similar highs overnight on Wall Street, analysts said.
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It was about four in the afternoon and I was on Rote Island, West Timor, sat in someone’s front yard with half a dozen bare-chested, tough-looking Indonesian chaps. We were drinking sopi, (arak) as you do on a sunny Saturday afternoon
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Stuck for Christmas gift ideas? Is your marriage or a friend's going through a rocky patch
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THAI TAKES By PHILIP GOLINGAI SO what is really happening (politically) in Thailand?” a visiting American academician specialising in South-East Asian politics asked me. Instinctively, I glanced to my left and then to my right
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Let’s say grace… At last, a thai official dares to speak the truth… and even more striking… the president of Thai Airways dares to speak the truth about the national carrier ! Fasten your seatbelt. And look for your life jacket
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Three ! And counting. The first time, sorry “The First Time”, it was in London at the G20. Last april
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