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Top 5 January 2026 phones for expats
Komsan Jandamit, Published on 21/01/2026
» Living in Thailand as an expatriate means staying connected — whether for work, travel, or keeping in touch with family abroad. Choosing the right mobile phone can make life easier, especially when juggling local SIM cards, international calls and the country’s tropical climate. Here are the best picks for January 2026.
Bangkok’s parks are getting a new lease on life
BitesizeBKK, Published on 14/01/2026
» Lately, we’ve been noticing a subtle shift across Bangkok’s sprawling urban parks. The city’s green spaces are no longer just for early-morning joggers or weekend tai chi sessions. From interactive playgrounds designed with children in mind to dedicated areas where dogs can roam freely, Bangkok’s parks are becoming more social, inclusive, and reflective of how city dwellers actually live today.
AIS launches simple SMS scam reporting service via 1185
Life, Puriward Sinthopnumchai, Published on 29/12/2025
» Advanced Info Service (AIS) has launched a new "1185 Snap and Share" service allowing customers to report fraudulent SMS messages through a simplified process, providing a fast, free-of-charge solution for users to flag scammers with results promised within 24 hours for both Android and iOS users.
Textiles and heritage in focus at 'Beneath The Fiber'
Life, Published on 04/12/2025
» Textiles are no longer mere objects but living palimpsests -- a medium recording shared botanical, human and historical narratives across modern national boundaries -- at a new exhibition titled "Beneath The Fiber", which will open at Baan Tuek Art Center, Chiang Mai, on Sunday.
New Chiang Mai exhibition explores textiles as cultural archive
Online Reporters, Published on 28/11/2025
» A groundbreaking exhibition titled Beneath the Fiber opens at Chiang Mai’s Baan Tuek Art Center from December 7th to 18th. The show encourages visitors to see textiles as more than physical objects, presenting them instead as a kind of living record — a palimpsest carrying intertwined botanical, human and historical stories that extend beyond today’s national borders.
Thin is in, honey!
Guru, Nianne-Lynn Hendricks, Published on 18/11/2025
» Remember that Mac commercial where, in 2008, Apple took the very first MacBook Air out of a Manila envelope? This year, the thinnest iPhone may not have come out of an envelope, but it sure could have.
Google warns new AI-powered malware thinks and rewrites its own code
Life, Puriward Sinthopnumchai, Published on 17/11/2025
» The Google Threat Intelligence Group (GTIG) has released a report detailing a significant shift in cybersecurity, noting that hackers are no longer just using AI for assistance or writing code but are integrating it into malware.
Why & how to use eSIM in Thailand?
Komsan Jandamit, Published on 12/09/2025
» eSIM has been around and available globally for more than five years. But, even in 2025, most people in Thailand still stick to traditional physical SIM card for their mobile internet connections and phone calls, even though eSIM is technically better in nearly every way.
Future reflections
Life, Suwitcha Chaiyong, Published on 02/07/2025
» When curator Zen Sanehngamjaroen watched Netflix's Thai science fiction series, Tomorrow And I, she felt inspired to create the art exhibition "Future Hype", which is now on view at Maison JE. Tomorrow And I is a series which features four episodes with different futuristic themes -- cloning, life-like sex robots, AI and Buddhism and biblical flooding and societal division.
Microsoft's quantum conundrum
Life, James Hein, Published on 12/03/2025
» If you've been keeping up with quantum computer news, you will have seen the Microsoft Marketing announcement on topological q-bits and a potential quantum computer in a few years. I was planning to write about this in some detail, but it turns out the reality may not meet the marketing. Surprising, I know, but the announcement implying Microsoft has q-bit technology ready to go and scale is speculative. They don't have any physical models, just some tests and a theory that has already been challenged by the physics community. It will take a while to go through all the published data, but the Microsoft quantum computer could be decades, not years, in the future, if ever.