• OPINION

  A curious place to find 'Lady Liberty'

  Roger Crutchley, Published on 09/07/2023

  » A headline which caught my eye in last Sunday's Post was "Highway 12 to economic heaven" with a report concerning the rich potential of this route which stretches west to east from Tak on the Myanmar border to Mukdahan, just this side of the Mekong River from Laos.

• OPINION

  A country so different to anywhere else

  News, Roger Crutchley, Published on 22/08/2021

  » The dramatic events in Afghanistan inevitably sparked memories of my own brief experiences of the country more than 50 years ago while on an overland trip from London to New Delhi and beyond.

• OPINION

  Home alone … a case of bad timing

  Oped, Roger Crutchley, Published on 18/07/2021

  » The emotional events at Wembley Stadium last Sunday inevitably stirred personal memories of a similar happening with a different outcome 55 years previously in the summer of 1966.

• OPINION

  The eyes have it in the big cover-up

  News, Roger Crutchley, Published on 09/05/2021

  » Coming from our Not Particularly Surprising News Department is a report that owing to the Covid pandemic lipstick sales have slumped quite markedly. With most people wearing masks there seems little point for the ladies to bother with lipstick.

• OPINION

  The magical world of far away places

  News, Roger Crutchley, Published on 04/04/2021

  » Earlier this week I was chatting with friends about which places around the globe captured their imagination most when they were kids. One was fascinated by Mandalay, while another said Pondicherry caught his eye. Zanzibar was another name that cropped up.

• OPINION

  Famous last words, some less famous

  News, Roger Crutchley, Published on 10/02/2019

  » I nearly ended up in "The Great Newspaper in the Sky" recently when a thundering truck ignored the red lights at a Klong Toey junction and missed our taxi by a whisker. The taxi driver seemed to think the incident was amusing, while all I managed was to blurt out "bloody hell!"

• OPINION

  One way to get into the swim of things

  News, Roger Crutchley, Published on 11/11/2018

  » As a kid I would marvel at reports of someone swimming across the English Channel. Being a total wimp in water, I couldn't believe that anyone would want to swim the chilly 33 kilometres between England and France when you could hop aboard a ferry.

• OPINION

  From a cultured cabbie to the Albert Hall

  News, Roger Crutchley, Published on 23/09/2018

  » The recent column on the musical tastes of Bangkok's taxi drivers prompted quite a few comments from readers relating assorted cab rides featuring the joyful strains of Cliff Richard, Boney M and even Pavarotti. However, Elvis remains the favourite amongst the veteran cabbies.

• OPINION

  You can't beat a good song in the gridlock

  News, Roger Crutchley, Published on 09/09/2018

  » Earlier this week a veteran taxi driver told me he was a great fan of Elvis Presley. He proceeded to sing Love Me Tender for most of the journey. He wasn't too bad either -- Elvis would have been proud. The crooner cabbie said singing took his mind off the horrors of Bangkok's traffic.

• OPINION

  Wild Boars become a part of history

  News, Roger Crutchley, Published on 15/07/2018

  » This time last week the rescue mission of the 12 young Wild Boars and their coach had only been half completed. They had all been found miraculously alive, but the question remained how to get them out. And in all honesty, it didn't look great. It was a very strange, uncomfortable feeling. With heavy rains forecast, the initial joy of finding them transformed into the real fear that they could not escape what had become their watery dungeon. It was a race against time.

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