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  • LEARNING

    Introducing Thailand submerged

    Terry Fredrickson, Published on 26/09/2012

    » This new book covers the Great Floods of 2011 as told through the pages of the Bangkok Post. There is special help for learners of English and by the time you finish you should be able to easily follow this year’s flood situation in English.

  • LEARNING

    Flood-related vocabulary (updated)

    Terry Fredrickson, Published on 17/11/2011

    » Fully updated with vocabulary from latest flooding reports and links to many flood stories covered previously.

  • LEARNING

    The clothes horse is in clover

    Brunch, Andrew Biggs, Published on 06/06/2010

    » Just arrived back from a clothes shopping trip in Los Angeles. Hardly justification for a column, I know, but bear with me. Things get a little more deep and meaningful as we progress.

  • LEARNING

    Who knows what the future brings?

    Brunch, Andrew Biggs, Published on 16/05/2010

    » I was interested to read the news of well known fortune teller Mor Krit's sentencing to six months in prison for making a very, very wrong prediction. It's a story far bigger in the Thai press than in the English one.

  • LEARNING

    The dark side of Thailand

    Brunch, Andrew Biggs, Published on 28/03/2010

    » There is an ad on Thai TV at the moment for a product that whitens your armpits. That's right. Your armpits. That's all; nothing else. You think I'm joking, but I'm not. It's an ad for a roll-on deodorant, but the main thing is not that you smell nice. Rather, your underarms will be white.

  • LEARNING

    A Gem of a story

    Brunch, Andrew Biggs, Published on 04/04/2010

    » The recent decision to close down Sanam Luang for renovations has sent me on a trip down memory lane, reminding me of a day when I went there deliberately to get ripped off. Sanam Luang is the last remaining large tract of land in central Bangkok that hasn't been cemented over to make way for shophouses selling car parts or cheap cloth which, upon coming into contact with an errant cigarette, quickly introduces you to the perils of self-immolation.

  • LEARNING

    My favourite Valentine's day

    Brunch, Andrew Biggs, Published on 14/02/2010

    » Valentine's Day is special for me - I first came to Thailand on that day in 1989. But there was another Valentine's Day in Thailand that turned out to be the most memorable in my life. It is not the most "sanook" story I have, but I am going to tell it to you anyway.

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