by Jim Algie | May 31, 2016 | Travel Tales
When I first came to bizarre Thailand in 1992, strange uses and perversions of English were everywhere, from the S&M Bakery (later changed to S&P), to a bar in Chinatown called the OD Café. The signs also had their charm, though, seemingly satirizing and...
by Jim Algie | May 31, 2016 | Book Reviews
A new book maps out more than 20 walking tours of Bangkok that show some different sides and rough edges to the pedestrian-unfriendly capital. Most visitors come away with the impression that Bangkok is not a city for walking. Vendors, stray dogs and food carts hog...
by Jim Algie | May 31, 2016 | Travel Tales
Beyond its glittering façade of rampant commercialism, Christmas in Asia is well feted in a spirit sometimes religious, sometimes distilled and often unintentionally satirical Nothing says Christmas quite like a shirtless male model in a Santa cap posing for beefcake...
by Jim Algie | May 31, 2016 | Features
As a journalist who covered the first wave of the disaster and went back for many subsequent visits to write about the recovery efforts and the survivors coping with Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, Jim Algie looked back on the 10th anniversary of the Asian tsunami in...
by Jim Algie | May 31, 2016 | Press
The new Jim Algie collection of tales comprises an expat’s notes from Thailand’s underground, and what may be the first collection of Asian horror written by an expat author in English, says Lary Wallace in The Magazine of the Bangkok Post Phuket snake-handler with a...
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