"Discovered" may not be the most accurate term. Frequently, local villagers have known that a cave existed, but they had never ventured very far within because they feared ghostly occupants or lacked proper lights and equipment. The recent teams of foreign cavers therefore have often found themselves to be the first people to enter an underground chamber with a 15-metre high roof or to see a thousand-year-old flowstone resembling a frozen waterfall.
* The Entertainer—Forbes Asia
Since the September military coup that toppled the government he has been pushing forward with a series ambitious plans to extend his grip on the country's entertainment market. He had bought one company, accumulated a large stake in another, taken some of his property assets public ...
* Prostitution in Thailand: Her fate, or choice?—Apa Insight Guide Thailand
By far, most patrons in Thailand are Thai men, yet foreign johns also fuel the demand. They not only come on sex tours from Europe, Japan and Malaysia. There are also conspicuous communities of middle-aged and elderly Western men who live in Pattaya, Phuket and Bangkok solely for the availability of cheap sex, child sex and younger wives. Many make a living by teaching in English schools.
* Reviews from the Bangkok Film Festival—Culture Vulture
The most repugnant deception is the fairy-tale time and place. The narrator tells us that his parents met "40 years ago." Yet in the late 1950s, the entire country was wracked by a Mao-induced famine that killed up to 30 million people. Emaciated or bloated from dropsy, the villagers would be scrounging for grass, weeds and bark. And this isn't a fertile, rice-growing area. It appears to be low, thinly-forested hills--the sort of area where the half-dead fed on human flesh. If we push the time up to 1960, there still wouldn't be such abundance ...
* Striking oils—Sawasdee
Citrus hystrix is one homely fruit. The size of a handball, it has the lumpy wrinkled surface of a green brain. No Thai will profess to eating it. It’s too bitter and “strong” smelling.
Susan J Cunningham 