Bangkok Blogs

The Thai TV stations are now showing messages in Thai saying that the Military has taken over the country without any opposition to them doing so, and that there is now a curfew in place.
There have also been reports of Tanks moving through Satorn and Silom areas. It’s unclear what details on the curfew there […]

Is this it then? The next coup attempt by army officials while Thaksin enjoys himself in New York for a few days?
We’ll know in about 4 hours, I should think. All the TV stations are showing the same patriotic songs and march tunes while showing pictures glorifying the King.
There are also military humvees on the […]

Well, not quite. According to a government report aimed at highlighting what they call “gross domestic happiness”, Thais living in Bangkok are the least content out of all the provinces in Thailand.
The white skinned people of Bangkok were rated an average 5.54 out of 10 according to the ABAC university funded poll. The survey was […]

Everyone is going nuts about this latest news report from the Bangkok Post regarding a new “tightening” of the visa regulations. You can read about it here. There have been relatively few scares of this variety so far this year for which all the english “teachers”, existing in the gaps between visa runs every 30 […]

I don’t know about you, but most of the Thai girls around my age who I would call friends are really more like sisters. Young sisters, at that. They are naive, they have more questions than answers, they lack any direct experience of much outside of their own often family controlled environments. There are obviously […]

There might actually be lots of reasons for this one, but I have noticed a curious consistency in the pricing of Thai apartment buildings. I pay about 6000 THB for my apartment, monthly, which does not include electricity or water, but does include furniture rental, tv and fridge rental and the removal of my rubbish […]

Thai people have a curious system of social hierarchy and this is rigidly enforced in most Thai minds. Even the language adopts this societal class, and pronouns are specific to the status of the person in question.
You’ve probably heard of the phrase “hi so” which refers to high society. Conversely the Thais also have the […]

I’ve had several friends come out here for the first time, some of them never having travelled outside of England before. Their experiences vary, based largely on what type of person they are. For example, some might express an interest in the more seedy areas of Bangkok life, and some might deliberately avoid mentioning it. […]

After being smuggled out of Bangkok in a black bin liner last week, suspected paedophile John Mark Karr has had his arrest warrant quashed following the discovery that his DNA did not match the DNA found at the scene of the murder of the young girl, JonBenet, whose killer has never been found.
Accused of being […]

Sukhumvit Soi 11 - the English pub down that way, tucked behind the tiny soi that runs opposite the ATMs and off the actual main soi itself used to be known as “The Old Bell”.
If my memory serves me right, it used to be run by a guy from Sheffield who has now sold it […]