by Jim Algie | Jul 12, 2016 | Blog, Book Reviews, My Reviews
Crime and corruption, hookers and hitmen, the new anthology Bangkok Noir makes a case for hardboiled crime fiction in the Thai capital with bullet points. Jim Algie reads you their writes In the middle of 2011, some eight years after the Thai government’s “War on...
by Jim Algie | Jul 12, 2016 | Blog, Book Reviews, My Reviews
No two books about prostitution in Asia have created so many imitators and detractors as A Woman of Bangkok and The World of Suzie Wong, or inspired so many appalling memoirs about Bangkok bargirls, writes Jim Algie, in a review originally printed in the Bangkok...
by Jim Algie | Jul 12, 2016 | Personalities
Double Lives: Searching for the Siamese Twins In this excerpt from the book, Bizarre Thailand: Tales of Crime, Sex and Black Magic, Jim Algie examines the remarkable lives of the Siamese twins, Chang and Eng, from growing up as poor fishermen in rural Thailand to...
by Jim Algie | Jul 12, 2016 | Blog, Book Reviews, Press
Mark Fenn reviewed the nonfiction collection Bizarre Thailand in Singapore’s Straits Times newspaper, giving the book a big thumbs up and singling out some of the funnier lines. Illuminating and irreverent, it offers a taste of Thailand far from Bangkok’s glitzy...
by Jim Algie | Jul 12, 2016 | Personalities
As an anchor and correspondent for CNN International for a decade, who currently hosts the daily show CNN NewsCenter and the weekly Talk Asia program, Monita Rajpal has covered some of the biggest stories of our time while interviewing many of world leaders, members...
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