It’s Shrove Tuesday or, as I know it, Pancake Day. Shrove Tuesday always falls 47 days before Easter Sunday – so the…
CHINESE NEW YEAR 2018 ‘The Year of the Dog’ Chinese New Year is a global event and will soon be upon us with spectacular…
VALENTINE’S DAY It's here again! Every year we celebrate ‘Valentine's’ Day on February 14th. The custom dates back to the…
Do you know what EVAT stands for? Not a lot, cynics might say. Well, let me enlighten you. EVAT is the Electronic Vehicle Association…
Do you have a fondness for places with bad reputations that are highly misunderstood? I mean places like Las Vegas or Amsterdam or Bangkok…
Sometimes I think I come from the most racist and bigoted country on the globe. We like to pigeon-hole people. All Russians are evil,…
Jim Thompson left behind more than just a good story. One day, the managing editor of this magazine and I were having lunch and…
No shortage of theories about Thailand’s “Silk King." Mr. Thompson was an intriguing figure indeed. A wealthy American socialite; an architect; a soldier; a…
It’s about 18 months since I reluctantly quit Thailand’s shores to return to the UK. Given that Christmas and the New Year (the Western…
Probably the first thing that overwhelms visitors and newcomers to Thailand is how completely alien the language is. Most westerners have been exposed to…