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Bizarre temple practices under fire
Oped, Sanitsuda Ekachai, Published on 27/12/2024
» Seventy-one corpses; that's what police found in two forest monasteries, thrusting them into the public eye for all the wrong reasons.
Telling fortunes 'a nice little earner'
Roger Crutchley, Published on 26/05/2024
» A recent Thai news story concerned a man nabbed in an online fortune-telling scam. He would inform customers suffering from misfortune that their situation would dramatically improve if for a small fee he made a few prayers on his "direct line" to the deities in heaven.
Woman claims psychic conned her into having sex
News, Wassayos Ngamkham, Published on 28/11/2023
» A woman has claimed she was tricked into having sex with a fortune teller who told her it would help save her marriage.
Here's the Pattaya 'rub'
News, Postbag, Published on 07/03/2017
» Re: "Sandcastles, seafood, but sorry, no sex", (Opinion, March 5).
Stressed? You're having a laugh
Life, Pichaya Svasti, Published on 25/08/2015
» A few months ago, I read a funny post on Facebook about laughing on social media in different languages. Thais prefer "55555" while the Japanese type "www", which is derived from the word "warai". Korean people write "kkkkk", the Spanish "jajaja" and the Portuguese "huehuehue" or "rsrsrsrs". For people in Denmark and Iceland, they use "ha ha, hi hi, hae hae, ho ho, ti hi" while Russians use "haha xaxa, hihi xnxn, hehe xexe" and it is "xa xa xa" in Hebrew. Interestingly, French people laugh "hahaha, héhéhé, hihihi, hohoho" or "MDR" (mort de rire) meaning "dying of laughter".
Don't be afraid
Guru, Published on 26/10/2012
» Halloween (Oct 31) is just around the dark corner. And since we're too old to trick-or-treat and too afraid to visit places that are actually haunted, here are alternative ways to have a bloody good time this Halloween without running the chance of encountering a real ghost (and losing all your hair in fright).
Poland to beat Greece, say animal oracles
Terry Fredrickson, Published on 08/06/2012
» TrueVisions subscribers need not despair if their TV screens go dark for the kickoff of Euro 2012 because we already know who will win the first match from animal "psychics", both here and abroad.