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Bean there, Done that: Bangkok's best cafes
B Magazine, Ezra Kyrill Erker, Published on 17/03/2013
» Bangkok's coffee houses offer more than just an air-conditioned escape from the overheated rigours of life in the capital. They are human petrol stations _ places to refuel, snack and reorder the mind amid the chaos. Coffee houses also serve as surrogate offices or libraries, places to meet business clients, study for exams or polish off a book. And, yes, the air-conditioning doesn't hurt either.
The knock-on effect for Bangkok's knock-offs
Spectrum, Ezra Kyrill Erker, Published on 20/01/2013
» Last week, a man came to tell Jasmine, a vendor in the Nana area, that the Department of Special Investigation would be conducting a raid. He took the unusual step of telling her not only to temporarily close down, but to move all of her counterfeit goods back home for two days.
Hearts in the darkness
B Magazine, Ezra Kyrill Erker, Published on 06/01/2013
» Chris Coles _ in a book on noir and an ongoing exhibition at the Foreign Correspondents' Club of Thailand _ is one of the few artists to record the people and transactions of Bangkok's red light districts with all their vivid idiosyncrasies. He paints bright scenes in acrylics or watercolours, shapes the human form simply through thick black lines and captures some essential truths of a tawdry reality.
Going deep into the waterways of life
B Magazine, Ezra Kyrill Erker, Published on 01/07/2012
» Visitors to Bangkok 100 years ago described a city of tree-lined canals and floating markets, of languid ferry drivers taking people around town. In a modern age of choking traffic, concrete high-rises and hectic urban life, such images of the past are still layered with nostalgia.
Bringing hearts and Seoul to Thailand
Spectrum, Ezra Kyrill Erker, Published on 26/02/2012
» When 54 South Korean teachers arrived in Thailand on Sept 28 last year, their culture shock was compounded by the flooding disaster under way then. Many of the teachers, here on a government sponsored exchange programme, saw their classes postponed and some were left to wonder just what they were doing here. Called "volunteer" teachers by the Thai government, they are in fact paid instructors on wages equivalent to those of Thai junior teachers _ around 10,000 baht a month.