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Celebrate Thai New Year in the Isaan Heartland
The Thai New Year, or Songkran, has become watered down in many urban centers, writes author and photographer Jim Algie, as you can see from all the malls where Buddha images are set up to be rinsed by patrons who go through the blessing motions with little heart and...
Kamalaya: A Prototype for the Future of Wellness
A holistic retreat on Koh Samui called Kamalaya caters to burnt-out execs by combining age-old disciplines with science, art, film screenings, traditional Chinese medicine and Ayurveda, as well as workshops on everything from meditation to Tibetan music and anger...
Bizarre Thailand: Photo Blog on T-Shirts, Posters, Slogans, and Signs of the Strange Climes
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...
Christmas in Asia: Stuff to do, Shit to Avoid in Thailand, the Philippines and South Korea
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...
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